04/23/2010 Annual Indigenous Peoples Symposium
April 23-24, 2010, UMass. Annual Indigenous Peoples Symposium, "Indigenous Peoples: Cultural Survival Through Art, Education and Health." Exact location and schedule of presenters TBA. Possible PowWow on April 25. Questions: Joyce Vincent, dvincent@ac more>
12/11/2009 8th Nikkomo
Fri. Dec. 11, 20009, 5:30 at JWECC, UMass. Josephine White Eagle Cultural Center hosts their 8th Nikkomo (pre-winter feast celebration-potluck). We hope all of the Native Studies folk will come out to share a meal together before we head into winter! F more>
12/04/2009 Revisiting the Pre-Columbian Mead collection
Fri. Dec. 4, 1 pm, Mead Art Museum, Mount Holyoke College. Talk on "Revisiting the Pre-Columbian Mead Collection." RSVP Pamela Russell, prussell@amherst.edu more>
11/19/2009 Indigenous Dinner
Thurs Nov 19th 5:30 pm Smith College. King/Scales and Chase/Duckett. Indigenous Dinner featuring Indian tacos, posole soup, and more, and Mexican Chocolate ice cream for dessert. Questions: Alison Montgomery amontgom@smith.edu. more>
11/18/2009 John Trudell (Santee Sioux), Poet, Musician, and American In
Wed Nov 18th 7 pm UMass Campus Center 101. John Trudell (Santee Sioux), Poet, Musician, and American Indian Movement Leader. Most likely discussing his life and work as an organizer of the American Indian Movement, for which he was Chairman from 1973-79 more>
11/18/2009 John Trudell, "Being Human"
Wed Nov 18, 7 pm, U Mass, Campus Center Room 101. Josephine White Eagle Cultural Center hosts Life Service Recognition Lecture by John Trudell, "Being Human." Free and open to the public. Co-hosted by UMass Certificate Program in Native American Indian more>
11/17/2009 Prof. Marge Bruchac on "Vanishing Indians"
Tues Nov 17th 7 pm Neilson Browsing Room, Smith College. Prof. Marge Bruchac, UConn Storrs (Abenaki). Lecture on her research titled "Vanishing Indians: Anthropological Acts of Possession and Dispossession in the early 20th Century." Includes some Smith more>
11/16/2009 Film screening
Film screening of "Edge of America", Dir. Chris Eyre (Cheyenne/Arapaho). The story of an African American man who coaches girls' basketball wile teaching on a Native American reservation. Monday Nov. 16th 7 pm Neilson Browsing Room, Smith College. Questi more>
