Native Cultures of the Americas

2024 Apr 09

"Imagining the Indian" Film Screening and Discussion (featuring the filmmakers, Micayla Tatum, and Phil Deloria)

5:30pm
Location:
Boylston Hall, Fong Auditorium
NATIVE CULTURES OF THE AMERICAS

SPEAKER: Ben West (Cheyenne) and Yancey Burns, Ciesla Foundation; Micayla Tatum; Phil Deloria

Imagining the Indian: The Fight Against Native American Mascoting...
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2024 Mar 20

Australian First Nations Sovereign Walks – Jinparrak to Daguragu (1966 – 2016); Clements and Noble’s trek from Brungle to Canberra (1927)

6:30pm
Location:
Barker Center, Room 133
NATIVE CULTURES OF THE AMERICAS

SPEAKER: Brenda L Croft, Australian National University, Harvard University

On 23 August 1966 200+ Gurindji (and associated nations and clans) stockmen and their families...
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2024 Feb 21

Supporting Tribal Land and Language Reclamation through Storytelling: the Oceti Sakowin Atlas 1.0.

6:00pm
Location:
Robinson Hall, Room B21 (Warren Center Conference Room)
NATIVE CULTURES OF THE AMERICAS

SPEAKER: Christopher Pexa, HARVARD UNIVERSITY

This talk gives an overview of recent Mellon-funded research toward the...
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2023 Nov 29

Visualizing Northeastern Removal: Cartographic Challenges of Mapping Chicagoland's Indian Removals

6:00pm
Location:
Barker Center, Room 114

NATIVE CULTURES OF THE AMERICAS

SPEAKER: Kabl Wilkerson, Harvard University

Kabl Wilkerson is a Ph.D. candidate in history at Harvard University and a citizen of the Citizen Potawatomi Nation. They received their BA from Texas Tech...
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2023 Oct 11

Native Biography as Process and Product: Perspectives on History, Storytelling, and Knowledge Production

6:00pm
Location:
Barker Center, Room 114

NATIVE CULTURES OF THE AMERICAS

SPEAKER: Rachel Wheeler, Indiana University Indianapolis; Sarah Eyerly, Florida State University

Historian Rachel Wheeler and musicologist Sarah Eyerly will speak about their efforts to...
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2023 Sep 21

Strength from the Waters: A History of Indigenous Mobilization in Northwest Mexico

6:00pm
Location:
Barker Center, Room 133

NATIVE CULTURES OF THE AMERICAS

SPEAKER: James Mestaz, Sonoma State University

Dr. James Mestaz is an Assistant Professor of Latin American History at Sonoma State University. He previously taught for two years in Harvard’s History...
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2023 May 03

Native Provenance: Stories of Chance and Survivance

5:00pm
Location:
Barker Center, Room 133

NATIVE CULTURES OF THE AMERICAS

SPEAKER: Gerald Vizenor

Gerald Vizenor is a citizen of the White Earth Nation and a retired professor of American Studies at the University of California, Berkeley. He has published more than thirty books...
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2023 Apr 12

Wayuu Peoples’ Struggles for Self-determination in the Guajira Peninsula

6:00pm
Location:
Barker Center, Room 114

NATIVE CULTURES OF THE AMERICAS

SPEAKER: Emil' Keme, Emory University

How do Indigenous peoples whose homelands have been demarcated by settler colonial borders assert their autonomy or sovereignty? In this presentation, I address the...
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2023 Mar 08

‘The Sound of the Rustling of the Gold is Under My Feet Where I Stand’: Recounting Gold Rush Narratives with Anishinaabe and Settler Perspectives

6:00pm
Location:
Barker Center, Room 114

NATIVE CULTURES OF THE AMERICAS

SPEAKER: Pamela Klassen, University of Toronto

Gold was a preoccupation in Anishinaabe and settler encounters in the nineteenth- and early- twentieth centuries. Anishinaabe leaders reiterated their...
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2023 Feb 15

Local Challenges to Tribal Sovereignty: A Citizen Potawatomi Nation Case Study

6:00pm
Location:
Barker Center, Room 114

NATIVE CULTURES OF THE AMERICAS

SPEAKER: Kelli Mosteller, Harvard University Native American Program

Dr. Kelli Mosteller has served as the Executive Director of the Harvard University Native American Program since the summer of...
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SPEAKER: Ben West (Cheyenne) and Yancey Burns, Ciesla Foundation; Micayla Tatum; Phil Deloria

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SPEAKER: Brenda L Croft, Australian National University, Harvard University

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SPEAKER: Christopher Pexa, HARVARD UNIVERSITY

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SPEAKER: Kabl Wilkerson, Harvard University

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SPEAKER: Rachel Wheeler, Indiana University Indianapolis; Sarah Eyerly, Florida State University

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SPEAKER: James Mestaz, Sonoma State University

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SPEAKER: Gerald Vizenor

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SPEAKER: Emil' Keme, Emory University

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SPEAKER: Pamela Klassen, University of Toronto

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SPEAKER: Kelli Mosteller, Harvard University Native American Program

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