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American Indian and Alaska Native students have helped shape the treatment of minority students at OU. In 1994, when the first tepee incident took place, outrage from the American Indian community and scrutiny by the U.S. Department of Education’s Office for Civil Rights eventually prompted the university to revise its Student Code to include language on racial harassment.
Raising a tepee in front of the Bizzell Memorial Library marked the start of American Indian Heritage Week at the university. Each night of the celebrations, students from different campus organizations would hold a vigil and sleep in the tepee.
On March 14, 1994, when members of the American Indian Student Association held their vigil, six members of Phi Kappa Psi “ran around inside the tepee, shouting and slapping it. One man urinated on the tepee,” The Oklahoman reported. Two weeks later, someone spray painted the words “Navajos go home” on a statue of former university president William B. Bizzell.
full: https://www.insidehighered.com/news/2015/03/19/u-oklahoma-doing-enough-states-american-indian-population
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