University of Wisconsin–Madison

Brenda Owen helps expand First Nations cultural landscape tour

Pictured on Observatory Hill are tour guides and leaders of the First Nations Cultural Landscape Tour (from left): Annie Jones, a professor with UW–Madison’s Division of Extension; PhD nursing student and tour project assistant Brenda Owen; recent alumna and tour project assistant Sarah Lundquist; undergraduate Kane Funmaker; undergraduate Abbey Woldt; undergraduate Silas Cleveland; graduate student Rebecca Sikes; Sarah Splinter, assistant director of student engagement for Campus and Visitor Relations; and Omar Poler, Indigenous education coordinator with the Office of the Provost. (Not pictured: Professor Doug Reinemann, associate dean for outreach and extension in the College of Agricultural and Life Sciences). Photo: Bryce Richter
Pictured on Observatory Hill are tour guides and leaders of the First Nations Cultural Landscape Tour. PhD nursing student and tour project assistant Brenda Owen is second from left. Photo: Bryce Richter

Expansion of First Nations Cultural Landscape Tour will increase capacity of popular educational offeringUW–Madison News | October 19, 2023

A popular campus tour at the University of Wisconsin–Madison that highlights the land’s historic and contemporary ties to Indigenous peoples has added tour guides and formalized its structure. The steps are expected to make the First Nations Cultural Landscape Tour available to more groups. Brenda Owen, a current PhD student at the School of Nursing, is a tour project assistant and tour leader.

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