Earlier this month, Akwe:kon (pronounced ah-GWAY-ghon) celebrated its 20th Anniversary. The house was built in 1991 as a way to serve Native American students at Cornell and to allow non-Native students to live in an interactive, inter-cultural space. Akwe:kon is part of the Mohawk language and translates to mean “all of us.”
Today, Akwe:kon houses 35 [...]
