North Hennepin Community College is celebrating it's interactive curriculum that connects students of color with the outdoors.
The college hosted the premiere of a documentary film, capturing the student experience on the Environmental Justice and Nature Immersion course that took students to the YMCA's Northern Lights Camp to learn about Native American culture and more.
"We learned about the land and their connections to the indigenous culture along with the Boundary Waters and the mining fort, and how that can affect us even the Twin Cities," student Kaja Just explained.
Just said the trip had a personal impact on her.
"Because of my adoptive mom being Cherokee, it impacted and broadened my horizons about what actually happened, and the differences between what people who have ancestors who experience that versus what is passed down through us through textbooks," she said.
The course will be be reoffered to students at North Hennepin next year as well.