The university on Monday named its new dining hall 'Yahentamitsi,' a tribute to the Piscataway Conoy Tribal Nation.
Yahentamitsi will become the campus’s first new dining hall in nearly 50 years when it opens next fall, officials said. The naming ceremony was a first for Maryland’s flagship public university, coming as part of an effort to promote diversity and inclusion on the College Park campus, said Darryll J. Pines, the school’s president.
The dining hall, planned to comprise 60,000 square feet, will be the first building on campus to honor Indigenous people, Pines said. It will seat 1,000 people and feature In recent years, groups throughout the D.C. region and across the country have made attempts to acknowledge that history, along with the brutal treatment of Indigenous peoples by Christopher Columbus and White settlers. Student groups and university officials will often start meetings, demonstrations and other events with a brief acknowledgment of the university’s presence on Piscataway land.
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