Boise State University keeps capitulating to right-wing complaints. : ProPublica is a Pulitzer Prize-winning investigative newsroom. Sign up for The Big Story newsletter to receive stories like this one in your inbox. In August 2020, Boise State University chose a doctoral student in public policy, Melanie Fillmore, to deliver what is called a "land acknowledgment" speech at a convocation for incoming freshmen. Fillmore, who is part Indigenous, would recognize the tribes that lived in the Boise Valley before they were banished to reservations to make way for white settlers. Fillmore considered it an honor.