Honoring women of color

The White Pine Singers opened their drum for the 1999-2000 academic year on the Agriculture Quad Sept. 3. Members of the Native community gathered to drum and sing in honor of women of color on the Cornell campus and to express concern about proposed budget cuts in the American Indian Program (AIP). Later in the day, AIP Director Jane Mt. Pleasant said many of the issues had been resolved. Clockwise, from left, are graduate student Michael McDaniel; Sequoyah Simmermeyer, residence hall director of Akwe:kon; undergraduate William Battles; and graduate students Michael Doxtater and Sean Teuton. Robert Barker/University Photography