Medical leaders have declared the state of youth mental health a national emergency. In rural and Indigenous communities, young people face unique mental health risks and barriers to care. Now, experts working to support children and adolescents living in rural regions join us to share experiences and best practices in providing services and safeguarding mental health.
The Ash Center invites you to a dinner screening and discussion of the environmental racism documentary "There's Something in the Water," co-directed and produced by Ian Daniel MC MPA 23. The film explores the topic of environmental racism and shines a light on the Canadian government’s current and historical decisions to prioritize the profits of large corporations over the health of Indigenous and Black Nova Scotian communities. The screening will be followed by a post-film conversation with Louise Delisle, Dorene Bernard, and Michelle Francis Denny, three activists...
Panel Five of the 2023 Undergraduate Thesis Conference focuses on Indigenous Issues in North America. Attend in person or via zoom to support some of HUNAP's students as they present their Senior Theses.
The Harvard Department of English presents "Indigenous Reterritorialization and Facebook Time Travel in 'Remembering the Old Cheyenne Agency,'" a lecture by Christopher Pexa Join us at 4:30pm on Wednesday, February 1st in the Thompson Room of the Barker Center (12 Quincy St.) for the presentation.
Portraits from a Fire, 2021 (Photon Films; English and Chilcotin with English subtitles; 92 min.)
This award-winning, beautifully layered Indigenous film follows Tyler, a lonely teenager who spends his days filmmaking, vlogging his Indigenous Tsilhqotʼin community, and hanging out with his grandparents. His father is physically present but remains emotionally absent from Tyler’s life for reasons Tyler cannot understand; that is, until he meets Aaron—a mysterious, charismatic, and influential figure who...