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Cartographic Colonialism in the Haudenosaunee Homelands

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NATIVE CULTURES OF THE AMERICAS SPEAKER: Scott Manning Stevens, Syracuse University How To Join Please add your name and email address to this registration page. After registering, you will receive a confirmation email with a link and passcode to the...

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

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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 is an award-winning documentary that examines the movement that...

The Removed: A Reading and Conversation with Brandon Hobson

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NATIVE CULTURES OF THE AMERICAS SPEAKER: Brandon Hobson, New Mexico State University Brandon Hobson is the author of the newly released novel, ʼThe Removed.ʼ His last book, ʼWhere the Dead Sit Talking,ʼ was a finalist for the National Book Award, Winner...

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

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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 and Literature...

Two Proposals regarding "The Woman Carried Away by a Skull," a Kwak'wala Narrative from the Boas-Hunt Corpus

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NATIVE CULTURES OF THE AMERICAS SPEAKER: DANIEL FRIM, HARVARD UNIVERSITY Daniel Frim is a PhD candidate under Harvard's Committee on the Study of Religion. His research focuses on Kwak'wala and other oral-traditional literatures within a comparative...

Mapping My Mother's Nations

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NATIVE CULTURES OF THE AMERICAS SPEAKER: Mary McNeil, Harvard University, Trinity College Building upon Indigenous geographer and literary scholar Mishauna Goeman’s concept of “remapping,” this talk utilizes family history to trace Afro-Indigenous...

A Field Guide to Contemporary Indigenous Literature

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NATIVE CULTURES OF THE AMERICAS SPEAKER: JOAN KANE, HARVARD UNIVERSITY Joan Naviyuk Kane is an Inupiaq poet, writer and language activist. She is the author of Another Bright Departure (CutBank, 2019), Milk Black Carbon (University of Pittsburgh Press...

What the “Last Tlingit Potlatch” of 1904 Was Really About

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NATIVE CULTURES OF THE AMERICAS SPEAKER: SERGEI KAN, DARTMOUTH COLLEGE In late December 1904 an unprecedented gathering of Tlingit people took place in Sitka. Hundreds of guests from communities of Yakutat, Klukwan, Hoonah, and Angoon dressed in...

Language endangerment and language vitality in the Brazilian Amazon: the experience of the Tuparí and other Native peoples of the Rio Branco Indigenous Territory

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NATIVE CULTURES OF THE AMERICAS SPEAKER: Adam Singerman, Harvard University Adam Singerman received his PhD in Linguistics from the University of Chicago in 2018. His dissertation and subsequent research have focused on the grammar of Tuparí, an...

CANCELLED: Before "The Raven"

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Speaker: Sarah Rivett, Princeton University We are sorry to announce that, in response to the updated University guidance on COVID-19, all events and seminars at the Mahindra Humanities Center have been cancelled starting Wednesday, March 11 until further...

Indigenous Homelands and the Making of the Deep North

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NATIVE CULTURES OF THE AMERICAS SPEAKER: BALRAJ GILL, HARVARD UNIVERSITY Balraj Gill is a doctoral candidate in American Studies at Harvard University. She works at the intersection of Indigenous studies, settler colonial and imperial histories of the...

Ungrounded Sovereignty: The nexus between Indigenous Sovereignty and Settler State Violence in Aotearoa New Zealand

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NATIVE CULTURES OF THE AMERICAS SPEAKER: Pounamu Jade Aikman, Harvard University, University of Hawai'i Dr Pounamu Jade Aikman is an independent Māori scholar whose work explores the continuum of settler colonial violence in Aotearoa New Zealand. He...