UW-Madison tribal relations director Carla Vigue’s two sons will grow up differently than she did.
Vigue was raised on the Oneida reservation west of Green Bay, but her sons will be urban Indians, defined as a population of people who have ancestral ties to First Nations but who don’t live on a reservation. Vigue’s role as the university’s tribal relations director, which she started in January, will be one way to not only strengthen her sons’ ties to their culture, but introduce them to other Indigenous cultures.