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The orchestrated reality of the dark tourism industry

Why do people visit the Catacombs of Paris? Or Vladimir Lenin’s preserved body in a glass case like a bald and mustached Sleeping Beauty in Moscow? Or the DMZ, a hostile war zone between North and South Korea? Mainly, because you can. This industry is dubbed “dark tourism” — tourism

Native professionals needed to lower healthcare disparities

KARLA ABBOTT Assistant Professor of Nursing, Augustana University As an enrolled member of the Cheyenne River Sioux Tribe in Eagle Butte, South Dakota, I was a consumer of the federal government health care system, or Indian Health Service (IHS), that provides care to American Indians living on or off the

Augustana needs native culture to respect diversity on campus

Augustana promises a campus of diversity to its students, but I don’t think the campus understands what promoting diversity truly entails. I believe that to truly understand a person, one needs to know their culture. However, I think Augustana forgets a population and history that exists right under its

‘Silent City’ history found south of Sioux Falls at Good Earth State Park

In 1650 A.D., the largest city in the United States existed only four miles south of Sioux Falls. Today, we call it Good Earth State Park. Nestled between cornfield upon cornfield and obscured by the absurdly large mansions popping up on the prairie like invasive species, Good Earth doesn’

‘My Red Identity’: High school student bridges cultural divide

DELILAH ROUSE Lincoln High School student I have survived it all. Inflictions of violence, neglect, abuse, trauma and genocide are part of the road I walked. The sweet abyss that I called home was a reservation filled with people who aren’t free. An endless sadness fills my nightmares with

Financial education: a missing ingredient in Augustana plan

Augustana University is an institution that prides itself on providing students a liberal arts education to craft them into well-rounded members of the world community. The SOPHIA program was implemented to further this goal. However, there is one area of study that Augustana University, as well as most schools in

Global Perspective: US should ally new Brazilian president, despite bigoted, discriminatory character

Last month, Brazil elected right-wing politician Jair Bolsonaro to serve as president with 55 percent of the vote. Bolsonaro holds hateful views towards women, homosexuals, people of color, immigrants, people in poverty and even democracy itself. Some of his most condemned comments include suggesting that if a child shows signs