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Speaking to the packed room on her birthday, Sheila Watt-Cloutier quipped that when many people living in the United States think about the Arctic, their minds go to a hallmark of capitalism: soda commercials鈥攖he ones where polar bears frolic with seals on the ice.
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At a sold-out talk, Robin Wall Kimmerer discussed the importance of tapping Indigenous knowledge 鈥渘ot so that we can go back to some imagined past but so we can go forward together and find solutions that are not embedded only by the Western worldview.鈥�
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Meegan Hart and Lexi Hadrych were both honored with 2022 Pac-12 Women's Volleyball year-end accolades. Hart was selected as an All-Pac-12 team member, and Hadrych earned an honorable mention.
