{"id":28786,"date":"2023-11-05T19:37:14","date_gmt":"2023-11-06T00:37:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/?p=28786"},"modified":"2023-11-06T15:09:14","modified_gmt":"2023-11-06T20:09:14","slug":"local-news-covers-unveiling-of-land-acknowledgement-plaque","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/local-news-covers-unveiling-of-land-acknowledgement-plaque\/","title":{"rendered":"Local news covers unveiling of Land Acknowledgement plaque"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span id=\"-3\">A crowd of about 100 gathered near the shore of Furman Lake on Nov. 3 to witness the unveiling of a plaque acknowledging the land on which Furman University stands traditionally belonged to the Cherokee people. Two news outlets, including <a href=\"https:\/\/mms.tveyes.com\/Transcript.asp?StationID=2725&amp;DateTime=11%2F3%2F2023+5%3A07%3A37+PM&amp;Term=Furman+University&amp;PlayClip=TRUE\">WYFF News 4<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/mms.tveyes.com\/Transcript.asp?StationID=2730&amp;DateTime=11%2F6%2F2023+6%3A35%3A57+AM&amp;Term=Furman&amp;PlayClip=TRUE\">FOX Carolina<\/a>, covered the event, which was detailed in a Furman News <a href=\"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/2023\/11\/03\/furman-unveils-plaque-acknowledging-cherokee-land\/\">story<\/a>. Several students, alumni, staff, faculty members and other guests were part of the ceremony. Many came representing Indigenous tribes. University officials said the plaque is a <span id=\"45\"> permanent public display of the school&#8217;s <\/span><span id=\"46\">ongoing commitment to <\/span><span id=\"50\">truth.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The unveiling on Nov. 3 drew about 100 people including news crews from local TV stations.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":257,"featured_media":28779,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,24,70,31,1569,6,32,90,23,120],"tags":[1310,2374,2372,1311,2373],"class_list":["post-28786","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-alumni","category-athletics","category-diversity-equity-and-inclusion","category-english","category-fox-carolina","category-in-the-news","category-politics-and-international-affairs","category-president","category-religion","category-wyff-tv","tag-cherokee","tag-eastern-band-of-cherokee-indians","tag-indigenous-people","tag-land-acknowledgment","tag-native-americans"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28786","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/257"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=28786"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28786\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/28779"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=28786"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=28786"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=28786"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}