Professor Eric Henson 2024 Fall Term Tuesdays, 12:00pm - 2:45pm This community based project seminar focuses on some of the major issues Native Nations, American Indian tribes, and Indigenous communities face as they seek to assert rights of self...
Harvard University is located on the traditional and ancestral land of the Massachusett, the original inhabitants of what is now known as Boston and Cambridge. We pay respect to the people of the Massachusett Tribe, past and present, and honor the land...
Semester: Winter Offered: 2024 Professors: Joseph Kalt and Angela Riley M-F - 10:00am to 4:30pm This course examines the challenges that contemporary Native American tribes and nations face as they endeavor to rebuild their communities, strengthen their...
Sky Hopinka (Ho-Chunk Nation/Pechanga Band of Luiseño Indians) was born and raised in Ferndale, Washington and spent a number of years in Palm Springs and Riverside, California, Portland, Oregon, and Milwaukee, Wisconsin. In Portland he studied and taught...
Semester: Fall Offered: 2024 Professor: Chris Pexa M, W - 1:30pm to 2:45pm “Indians are an invention,” declares an unnamed hunter in Gerald Vizenor’s (White Earth Ojibwe) 1978 novel, Bearheart. The hunter’s point, as Vizenor has explained in interviews...
Semester: Fall Offered: 2024 Professors: Matt Liebmann & Dan Smail T, TH - 12:00pm to 1:15pm When does history begin? To judge by the typical history textbook, the answer is straightforward: six thousand years ago. So what about the tens of thousands of...
Semester: Spring Offered: 2024 Professor: Christopher Pexa M, W - 12:00pm to 1:15pm “Indians are an invention,” declares an unnamed hunter in Gerald Vizenor’s (White Earth Ojibwe) 1978 novel, Bearheart. The hunter’s point, as Vizenor has explained in...
Date: Saturday September 20th, 2025 Theme: Matriarchs Leading the Way Time: Grand Entry is at 1:00 pm (event ends at 5:30 pm) Location: McCurdy Track (145 N Harvard St, Boston, MA 02134) This year’s Harvard Powwow theme honors the prominent matriarchs...
Semester: Spring Offered: 2024 Professor: Joe Gone M - 12:00pm to 2:45pm American Indian, First Nations, and other Indigenous communities of the USA and Canada contend with disproportionately high rates of “psychiatric” distress. Many of these communities...