Race, Ethnicity & Culture

Salt Lake City student Gabriella Miranda was recently named a 2023 National Student Poet. As part of the award, she’ll lead a service project, during which she hopes to connect with and teach other students of color.

“We are finally able to do an event like this,” said Karlysue Pereyra, a third-generation mariachi. “Five, six, eight years ago, maybe we wouldn’t have been able to.”

“El Camino Latino,” from advocacy group Defiende Nuestra Tierra, is a map of public lands in the Roaring Fork and Colorado River valleys. It has information on recreation in both English and Spanish, with the hopes of making the outdoors more accessible for everyone.

El Camino Latino”, realizado por el grupo de apoyo Defiende Nuestra Tierra, es un mapa de las tierras públicas en los valles de Roaring Fork y del río Colorado. Contiene información sobre actividades recreativas tanto en inglés como en español, con miras a hacer la vida al aire libre más accesible para todas las personas.

Latino Conservation Week features events nationwide aimed at getting more Hispanic families into nature and elevating their voices about the environment.

When did horses become a part of Western Indigenous communities? That’s the focus of a recent study that challenges long-held ideas. But it also highlights the importance of decolonizing science.

“Unlike some other institutions across the country, Utah public colleges and universities do not consider an applicant’s race or ethnicity when making admissions decisions," said a Utah System of Higher Ed spokesperson.

Native American nations say the Supreme Court has reaffirmed their power to withstand threats from states.

“They had the ability to take away our children, again, from our people. And they did the right thing,” said Darren Parry, former chairman of the Northwest Band of the Shoshone Nation.

The court left in place the 1978 Indian Child Welfare Act, which was enacted to address concerns that Native children were being separated from their families and, too frequently, placed in non-Native homes.

For Thom Reed, program manager at Family Search International, Juneteenth is a good time for those who want to know more about their ancestry to learn it and share it with their families.

The blessing and planting of seeds is a yearly ceremony at Wasatch Community Gardens. It’s centered around culturally significant growing practices of people from Latin America.