Tragedy and Trajectory in American Treaty Space
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NATIVE CULTURES OF THE AMERICAS SPEAKER: Dylan Nelson, Harvard University
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Reclaiming “Delinquency”: Biopolitical Enclosure, Mana Wahine, and Insurgent Indigenous Literacies in Territorial Hawaiʻi
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NATIVE CULTURES OF THE AMERICAS SPEAKER: Kamalani Johnson, Brown University In the decades following the 1898 U.S. annexation of Hawaiʻi, the Territorial government deployed a coordinated legislative and institutional architecture designed to fragment...
Emerging from the Underside: Rethinking Scale, Spatiality, and Relationality in Native Public Art
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NATIVE CULTURES OF THE AMERICAS SPEAKER: Karen Kramer, Harvard University and Peabody Essex Museum For five months in 2024, Cannupa Hanska Luger's Attrition (2024) occupied New York City's City Hall Park, his ten-foot-long steel buffalo skeleton rising...
Seminar with Lezhi Wang
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NATIVE CULTURES OF THE AMERICAS SPEAKER: Lezhi Wang, Harvard-Yenching Institute
Who Were Harvard’s First Indigenous Students?
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NATIVE CULTURES OF THE AMERICAS SPEAKERS: Alan Niles (Harvard University), Wanda Hopkins (Narragansett), & Mack Scott III (Narragansett) New information from the documentary record confirms Narragansett oral tradition concerning the beginnings of English...
Shoot the State: Patronage, Markets, and the Arming of Indigenous Independence in the Americas, 1750-1950
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NATIVE CULTURES OF THE AMERICAS SPEAKER: Brian DeLay, UC Berkeley Generations of Indigenous people resisted settler states with guns in their hands, even though they manufactured no arms or ammunition. Under the right conditions, access to imported...
POSTPONED “Nodding Acquaintances”: D’Arcy McNickle and Transnational Indigenous Networks within Academia’s Colonial System
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NATIVE CULTURES OF THE AMERICAS This event has been postponed. SPEAKER: Dane Allard, University of British Columbia When the American historian Dorothy Parker wrote her biography of the American born, Indigenous scholar, bureaucrat, novelist, and used-car...
Repositioning the Indian Missionary: William Apess's Theory of Indigenous Missions
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NATIVE CULTURES OF THE AMERICAS SPEAKER: Anthony Trujillo, Doctoral Candidate In American Studies, Harvard University In this presentation, Ohkay Owingeh scholar Anthony Trujillo shares research on the provocative publication by nineteenth-century Pequot...
Decolonizing Archives, Recovering Stories: The Stolen Relations Project and Native American Slavery
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NATIVE CULTURES OF THE AMERICAS SPEAKERS: Dr. Linford Fisher, Brown University Department of History & Lorén Spears (Narragansett), Executive Director of Tomaquag Museum The Stolen Relations project is a tribally collaborative effort to recover...
Kelly Wisecup: ‘your own work eats up trees’: Birchbark Bookmaking, Settler Memory, and Paper Histories
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AMERICAN LITERATURE AND CULTURE SPEAKER: Kelly Wisecup, Northwestern University and the Radcliffe Institute RESPONDENT: Christopher Pexa, Harvard University Co-sponsored by Native Cultures of the Americas .