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Dear HUNAP Relatives and Friends:
As I write this message, the warmth and promise of springtime has at last settled on Cambridge. Our recent celebration of 20 Native American graduates of Harvard University was utterly inspiring and reminds us of the important work that we do. Now that the academic year has drawn to a quick close, I am pleased to introduce our inaugural year-in-review communication. Despite the challenges of the COVID pandemic, HUNAP hosted our inaugural annual lecture series featuring U.S. poet laureate Joy Harjo, a handful of 50th Anniversary events, and the kick-off of our new Indigenous Health Seminar series. Beyond this, our HUNAP faculty, staff, and students remain engaged in many important and influential activities. Below you will find summaries and links to just some of the news and highlights from this past year.
Wishing you well,
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Joseph P. Gone (Aaniiih-Gros Ventre), AB ‘92
Professor of Anthropology and of Global Health and Social Medicine
Faculty Director, HUNAP
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HUNAP Annual Lecture Series
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Native Americans and the National Consciousness: Virtual Reading and Conversation with Joy Harjo
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On April 5th, HUNAP hosted an inaugural event with US Poet Laureate Joy Harjo (Mvskoke) as part of a newly funded annual lecture series. The virtual event originally scheduled for April 2020, was joined by over 1,200 people from across the globe and included a conversation with Professor Philip J. Deloria (Harvard History). A recording of the event is being archived in the Harvard Library, Woodberry Poetry Room. Thanks to the generous gift from Lisa and David (MTS’05) Rich, HUNAP is looking forward to future lectures that will bring accomplished and outstanding speakers to the Harvard community.
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50th Anniversary Events, 1970-2020
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Over the course of the 2020-2021 academic year, HUNAP celebrated the 50th anniversary of the program with virtual events focused on alumni, scholars and students.
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Synergy Circle: Convening Native HAA Directors
October 2020
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A Discussion with Past HUNAP Directors
December 2020
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A Circle of Notable Native American Scholars
February 2021
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Leaders in Education: Voices from Harvard's American Indian Program
March 2021
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Indigenous Health Seminar Series
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Co-sponsored by the Harvard Medical School
Department of Global Health and Social Medicine
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Impact of Unresolved Trauma on American Indian Health Equity -
Presentation by
Dr. Don Warne
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February 24 |
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The Urban American Indian Traditional Spirituality Program: Community Engagement and Cultural Adaptation in Indigenous Health - Presentation by
Dr. Joseph P. Gone
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March 3 |
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Research with Indigenous People: Ethical Considerations and Community Engagement - Presentation by
Dr. Alexandra King and Professor Malcolm King
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HUNAP Celebrates Twenty Graduates
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HUNAP congratulates all the Native/Indigenous Harvard graduates of 2021. This year, twenty graduates celebrated with HUNAP. They received a HUNAP stole, alumni pins, and attended the annual HUNAP graduation celebration. Graduating students selected Professor Kinew to speak, you can view her faculty remarks here. |
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Two Graduating Students Receive Commencement Profiles
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Each year, Harvard University chooses to recognize the stellar achievements of a select group of graduating students. Eli Langley (Harvard College) and Eboni Nash (HDS) both had the honor of having their accomplishments recognized. |
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HUNAP Recognizes Three Graduating Students with TCU Connections
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Tribal Colleges and Universities (TCUs) are in important part of higher education in Native/Indigenous communities. Heidi Brandow (IAIA), Lorissa Garcia (SIPI), and Connor Veneski (Haskell) each attended a TCU before coming to Harvard. To recognize this momentous occasion HUNAP wrote an announcement you can read here. |
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Megan Red Shirt-Shaw (Oglala Lakota), EdM'17 Elected to Harvard Board of Overseers
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HGSE alumna, Megan Red Shirt-Shaw, was elected to the Harvard University Board of Overseers. She will serve a six-year term on the board, which consists of members of the Harvard Alumni Association (HAA) and high-ranking university officials. HAA makes the announcement each year at commencement. |
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HIGHLIGHTS 2020-2021
September 18: HUNAP Fall 2020 Welcome, beginning of Fall Semester event to welcome incoming and returning students.
October 7: MD/PHD Social with Professor Gone, virtual event to connect doctoral students at Harvard.
October 12: N@HC Celebration - Indigenous Peoples’ Day, annual student led event in celebration of Indigenous Peoples’ Day.
November 23: Indigenous Inspirers Panel with N@HC Hosted by the College Events Board Panel with leading Native American leaders focused on current issues.
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November 30 |
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More than a Word Film Conversation,
with directors and Professor Philip J. Deloria
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April 14 |
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The Removed: A Reading and Conversation with Novelist Brandon Hobson, hosted by the Mahindra Center, part of the Native Cultures of the Americas Seminar Series co-sponsored by HUNAP.
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April 9 |
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Native Housing: A Conversation Among Practitioners, Advocates and Students, hosted by the Harvard Indigenous Design Collective (HIDC), featuring Chris Cornelius, Joseph Kunkel, Johnpaul Jones, Selina Martinez, Tamarah Begay, and Ted Jojola.
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April 20: Indigenous Antipodes: A Dialogue on Indigenous Women’s Rights, Environment Racism, Peacemaking and Sovereignty, a Native American & Indigenous Studies Working Group Webinar with Binalakshmi Nepram and June Lorenzo.
April 23: Corn, Memory and Tradition, hosted by Future Indigenous Educators Resisting Colonial Education (FIERCE) and the Harvard Design Collective (HDC), panel presentation moderated by Taty Hernandez with Nanobah Becker, Lily Palma, and Chasity Lolita Salvador.
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Dan Carpenter (FAS, Government) |
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In academic year 2020-2021, Professor Daniel Carpenter – with a major assist from the HUNAP community, including Professor Joe Gone and Kemeyawi Wahpepah (Kickapoo and Sac & Fox; Ph.D. student, HSGE) – launched and taught the first ever course on Native American governance taught at Harvard College (through the Department of Government). All three tribal projects – on food sovereignty among urban Indians in Missoula Montana; on tribal code revision for suicide prevention at the Fort Peck Tribes; and on English-only laws for the National Coalition of Native American Language Schools and Programs – were completed to the satisfaction of our Native national partners. Professor Carpenter received the GSA Diversity and Inclusion Award in December 2020 from the Graduate Students’ Association, Department of Government, Harvard University; for excellence in advancing diversity and inclusion in graduate mentoring. Professor Carpenter has been appointed Faculty Director of the Social Sciences at the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study for 2021-2022, and has also been appointed as Chair of the University Benefits Committee at Harvard. Professor Carpenter’s book Democracy by Petition: Popular Politics in Transformation, 1790-1870 (Harvard University Press, 2021) has been published. It will be of interest to students of Indigenous history and politics as it presents several petitioning histories of different tribes and pueblos in North America.
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Davíd Carrasco (HDS/FAS, Anthropology) |
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Recently Professor Carrasco has published Arqueología de un arqueólogo: Conversaciones con Eduardo Matos Moctezuma, Davíd Carrasco y Leonardo López Luján. Mexico, Secretaría de Cultura, ENAH, INAH. Also “Romancing the Scribe”, Literary Review, London which also appeared in Spanish as “Romantizando al Escriba” in Arqueología Mexicana, Mexico, Num. 166. He also published “The Making of a New History called Mexico”, in Wherefrom Does History Emerge? Inquiries in Political Cosmogony, ed. Tilo Schabert and John von Heyking, (Berlin, Walter de Gruyter, GmbH. He delivered the inaugural Hispanic Heritage Month Lecture, virtually at Michigan State University, “Latinx at the Crossroads: Cultural Maps of a New American World” followed by Vassar Lecture, A New History Called Mexico: Genealogy, Justic, Crossroads City at Vassar College. He also published “Mexican Angels in the Attic” in ReVista: The Harvard Review of Latin America.
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Philip J. Deloria (FAS, History) |
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Philip Deloria was elected to the American Philosophical Society, joining the Class of 2021, and was also honored to give the Merle Curti Lectures at the University of Wisconsin and to hold the McIlroy Visiting Professorship at the University of Arkansas. He gave lectures and collaborated with the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the American Museum of Natural History, and the Center of the American West, and wrote pieces on Indian mascots and Confederate statues, Tecumseh and the racial order of the Midwest, Deep History and the decolonization of archeology, Native activist Suzan Harjo, and Dakota artist Oscar Howe. He continues to serve on the Board of Trustees for the National Museum of the American Indian. At Harvard, Deloria has chaired the Peabody Museum’s new repatriation committee, where he helped institute new policies on funerary objects, and has served on the Peabody’s Faculty Executive Committee, the President’s Steering Committee on Human Remains, the President’s Committee on Renaming, and the FAS Task Force on Visual Culture. He chairs the Committee on Degrees in History and Literature. Over 2020-2021, his teaching includes Introduction to Native American and Indigenous History, What is Indigenous History?, American Indian History in Five Acts, and graduate-level Readings in Native American and Indigenous History.
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Joseph P. Gone (FAS, Anthropology / HMS, Global Health and Social Medicine) |
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During this past academic year, Professor Joseph P. Gone (Aaniiih-Gros Ventre, A.B. ’92) completed his three-year Fellowship with the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation’s Interdisciplinary Research Leaders Program and his three-year elected term on the Council of Representatives for the American Psychological Association. He will transition from President Elect to President of the Society of Indian Psychologists in June. Prof. Gone also serves as Co-Chair of the Task Force on the Elimination of Racism, Discrimination, and Hate for the American Psychological Association. He was appointed to the Ethnoracial Equity and Inclusion Workgroup for the American Psychiatric Association’s text revision of the DSM-5, and he delivered the 9th Annual Jacobson Lecture on Promising Innovations in Psychiatry at Massachusetts General Hospital. He is this year’s recipient of the 2021 Award for Distinguished Professional Contributions to Applied Research by the American Psychological Association. He will also receive the Seymour B. Sarason Award for Community Research and Action from the Community Psychology division of the APA. Last summer he received the Joseph E. Trimble & Jewell E. Horvat Award for a Distinguished Professional in Native/Indigenous Psychology from the Society for the Psychological Study of Culture, Ethnicity, and Race of the APA.
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Joseph Kalt (HKS, Emeritus) |
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Prof. Emeritus Joe Kalt is co-founder (in 1987) and co-director of the Harvard Project on American Indian Economic Development at the Harvard Kennedy School. In response to the needs of Indian Country during the pandemic, during 2020 the Project launched a new series of COVID-19 Response and Relief Policy Briefs, providing policy guidance to federal, state and tribal governments, along with a Nation Building Toolbox of COVID-19 Resources for Tribal Leaders, providing best practices information and intertribal sharing on pandemic response and recovery. In addition, the Project disseminated results of its pandemic-focused best practice research through direct briefings of tribal, state and federal decisionmakers, online virtual gatherings and webinars, and numerous media interviews. The Project also responded to requests from tribes seeking assistance in adapting to US Supreme Court’s landmark ruling in McGirt v. Oklahoma (upholding tribes’ rights under treaties long-ignored by the federal government and states), launching a colloquium of scholars and practitioners and a companion Nation Building Toolbox. Finally, the Project partnered with Fulbright Canada to plan and officially launch Honouring Nations Canada, a program parallel to the Harvard Project’s highly successful Honoring Nations program of awards, documentation and dissemination of best practices in Indigenous self-governance.
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Shawon Kinew (FAS, History of Art & Architecture) |
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This past academic year Shawon Kinew was on sabbatical and had the pleasure of being part of the 2020-2021 cohort of fellows at the Radcliffe Institute of Advanced Study, where Kinew has been the Shutzer Assistant Professor from 2018-2021. Thanks to Radcliffe’s support, Kinew was able to work on two book manuscripts. In December, she published an essay “Sedlmayr’s Mother-of-Pearl: Further Notes on Rubens and Flesh Color” in Selva, in which she explored the notorious Nazi art historian Hans Sedlmayr’s scholarship on the painter Peter Paul Rubens and what it can tell us about the practice of art history today. Committed to expanding the frameworks for understanding the Renaissance, Kinew also worked on an upcoming conference, co-organized with Felipe Pereda, called “Visual Poetry: The Politics and Erotics of Seeing, Titian and Beyond,” which will convene international scholars at Harvard in Spring 2022. This fall she is looking forward to returning to the Department of History of Art and Architecture, where she is assistant professor, and back to the classroom.
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Matt Liebmann (FAS, Anthropology) |
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For the past 20+ years, he has been collaborating with the Jemez Pueblo tribe in New Mexico on a variety of community-based and collaborative research projects. While the COVID-19 pandemic prevented any new collaborative fieldwork in 2020, Matt co-authored articles reflecting on the historical experiences of pandemics in North America (“Finding Archaeological Relevance in a Pandemic and What Comes After” American Antiquity 86(1):2-22) and the ongoing challenges of forest management for tribes in the wildfire-prone American West (“Native American Fire Management at an Ancient Wildland-Urban Interface in the Southwest US” Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 118(4), LINK, subscription required). He hopes to travel to Pine Ridge, SD and Jemez, NM this summer to visit old friends and make some new ones. |
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Tiya Miles (FAS, History) |
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Tiya Miles’s sixth book, All That She Carried: The Journey of Ashley’s Sack, a Black Family Keepsake, will be released by Random House in June of 2021. The book follows the story of a special object passed down by Black enslaved women and their free descendants across the decades, while interweaving discussion about the enslavement of Indigenous people alongside Black people in South Carolina. In 2020-21, Miles was appointed by President Larry Bacow to the Harvard and the Legacy of Slavery Committee, chaired by Dean Tomiko Brown-Nagin and to the Steering Committee on Human Remains in Harvard Museum Collections, chaired by Professor Evelynn Hammonds. Miles also began serving as the new Director of the Charles Warren Center for Studies in American History at Harvard. She published essays on slavery and public memory in The Boston Globe, The Public Historian, and Winterthur Portfolio: A Journal of American Material Culture, and she consulted with the Museum of Fine Arts Boston on the upcoming exhibit: Fabric of a Nation: American Quilt Stories, which will run from October 10, 2021- January 17, 2022.
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Joseph Singer (HLS) |
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This year I led reading groups on tribal sovereignty in both the fall semester 2020 and the spring semester 2021, and I supervised several student written work projects on property rights of indigenous peoples in US territories. I published two books in 2020, including “Persuasion: Getting to the Other Side” and “Choice-of-Law: Patterns, Arguments, Practices.” Choice of law involves decisions about which state law to apply when an event touches persons or events in more than one state, and the states have conflicting legal rules. This area of law (also called "conflict of laws") is of great importance in the United States, given the existence of fifty states plus the District of Columbia, Puerto Rico and other territories. Prior conflict of laws textbooks focus on relations among states and do recognize the existence of tribal sovereignty. My choice of law textbook is the first one ever published that addresses conflicts between tribal law and state law, and explains the law that determines when tribal courts have the power to enforce tribal law against nonmembers in tribal courts, as well as the circumstances in which state courts should apply tribal law to govern cases before them.
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HIGHLIGHTS 2020 - 2021
- In October 2020, the Harvard Gazette published commentary and views from the HUNAP community regarding the continued recognition of Columbus Day.
- The Harvard IOP (HKS) invited Kim Teehee and Andrew Lee to the JFK Jr. Forum to discuss issues of tribal sovereignty and relations in November 2020.
- Also in November, the Harvard Institute of Politics held a conversation with then Rep. Deb Haaland (D-NM) for Native American Heritage Month.
- For the first time, a Native American may oversee U.S. policies on tribal nations was published by the Harvard Gazette in January 2021 with perspectives from the Harvard community on Sec. Deb Haaland's historic nomination.
- In March 2021, the Harvard Gazette reported on HUNAP’s 50th anniversary commemorative event, with interviews of panelists who attended Harvard in the 1970s.
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