Native Cultures of the Americas

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 extend the method of relational...

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...

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, and his recent...

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 answer to this...

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 concerns about settler...

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 2022. In her role, she...

NATIVE CULTURES OF THE AMERICAS SPEAKER: Tarren Andrews, Yale University “Medieval Treaties and Modern Nations” takes up the question of how modern notions of nationhood are informed by treaty systems. Through a close analysis of an early medieval treaty...

NATIVE CULTURES OF THE AMERICAS SPEAKER: Frank Waln Frank Waln is an award winning Sicangu Lakota Hip Hop artist and music producer from the Rosebud Reservation in South Dakota. A recipient of the Gates Millennium Scholarship, Waln attended Columbia...

NATIVE CULTURES OF THE AMERICAS SPEAKER: Cedric Woods, University of Massachusetts, Boston Cedric Woods is a citizen of the Lumbee Tribe of North Carolina. He combines over a decade of tribal government experience with a research background and has served...

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...