Joan Naviyuk Kane presents her new book, Dark Traffic as part of Cambridge Public Library's Native American Heritage Month programming. Register for this virtual event here. Kane's new book explores the arctic and subarctic, as well as America, motherhood, indigenous experience, feminism, and more. Joan Naviyuk Kane is Inupiaq, with family from King Island (Ugiuvak) and Mary’s Igloo, Alaska. She is the author of The Cormorant Hunter’s Wife, Hyperboreal, and Milk Black Carbon.
In honor of Native American Heritage Month, HUNAP is partnering with HUDS to feature Wampanoag Cuisine at HLS and in Annenberg, Lowell, and Winthrop dining hall.
Thanks to Kisha James (Wampanoag HLS staff member and Sammie Maltais, HLS student) for their guidance and help.
Harvard affiliates can try the HLS cafe item, the other HUDS opportunities are student only.
Harvard Law School – Lunch, Chef’s station in the cafe
Nasaump with various nuts and berries and Sassafras Tea
Speaker: Sergei Kan, Professor of Anthropology at 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 ceremonial regalia arrived for a four-week potlatch (koo.éex’) hosted by several houses (lineages) of the local Kaagwaantaan clan of the Eagle moiety. Despite the local American government officials’ opposition to potlatches, its hosts received permission to hold it from none other than the Governor of the...
This meeting will be a social organized by the NAIS Working Group. Please contact Anthony Trujillo, anthonytrujillo@g.harvard.edu for more information and details.
A presentation from 2021–2022 Radcliffe fellow Scott Manning Stevens, an associate professor and director of Native American and Indigenous Studies at Syracuse University. His project focuses on ways Indigenous communities can confront cultural alienation and appropriation in museums, galleries, and archives.
Free and open to the public. To view this event online, individuals will need to register via Zoom.
Speakers Mary Ellen Turpel-Lafond (Professor, Peter A. Allard School of Law, The University of British Columbia) and Matt Villeneuve (Assistant Professor of History and American Indian Studies, Department of History, University of Wisconsin-Madison) along with Chair Vincent Chiao (William Lyon Mackenzie King Visiting Professor of Canadian Studies, Canada Program. Associate Professor, Faculty of Law, University of Toronto) address the legacy of residential schools in the United States.
This cosponsored event with Harvard College Democrats will feature a talk by Sarah Sadlier, an expert on Native issues and JD Candidate / History PhD Candidate at Harvard specializing in Native American History with a secondary field in Studies of Women, Gender, and Sexuality (WGS). Her current work specializes in the history of Native American veterans, Indian boarding schools, and Native American lawyering. After Ms. Sadlier’s talk, there will be a Q&A session with her and an action item to take together regarding the Native American Voting Rights Act.