ISU’s 7th Annual Indigenous Peoples' Day Celebration
October 13, 2025 | Idaho State University | Pond Student Union
Theme: Indigenous Joy: "Celebrating Strength & Resilience”
Indigenous Joy: Celebrating Strength & Resilience
This event offers a meaningful opportunity to honor the rich cultures, histories, and enduring contributions of Indigenous peoples. It serves as a celebration of the strength and resilience that have sustained Native communities across generations.
We invite all members of the campus and local community to join us in recognizing Indigenous persistence and success. This year’s program will feature presentations from Indigenous community members, showcasing the preservation of traditional cultural practices, their transformation through contemporary expression, and their visions for the future.
We look forward to sharing this important day of learning and community with all of our students, faculty, staff, and community members. In the meantime, if you have questions, contact Effie Hernandez, Native American Student Services Coordinator, EffieHernandez@isu.edu, 208-282-3382.
ISU Land Acknowledgment Statement
Acknowledging Native lands is an important way to honor and respect Indigenous peoples and their traditional territories. The land on which Idaho State University’s Pocatello campus sits is within the original Fort Hall Reservation boundaries and is the traditional and ancestral home of the Shoshone and Bannock peoples. We acknowledge the Fort Hall Shoshone and Bannock peoples, their elders past and present, their future generations, and all Indigenous peoples, including those upon whose land the University is located. We offer gratitude for the land itself and the original caretakers of it.
As a public research university, it is our ongoing commitment and responsibility to teach accurate histories of the regional Indigenous people and of our institutional relationship with them. It is our commitment to the Shoshone-Bannock Tribes and to ISU’s citizens that we will collaborate on future educational discourse and activities in our communities.