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Season 2 of NATIVE AMERICA is a groundbreaking portrait of contemporary Indian Country. Building on the success of the first season, this four-part Native directed series reveals the beauty and power of today’s Indigenous world. Smashing stereotypes, it follows the brilliant engineers, bold politicians, and cutting-edge artists who draw upon Native tradition to build a …

  A documentary telling the story of indigenous journalists’ fight for a free press Join us on Monday, February 26 at 9:30 a.m. to 1 p.m. for the free documentary screening of “Bad Press,” which shows the story of indigenous journalists on an Oklahoma tribal reservation that pushed back against censorship and convinced their community …

Boarding Schools and American Indian Dispossession Professor Brenda Child, University of Minnesota and Guggenheim Fellow Government boarding schools went hand in hand with the American Indian land dispossession policies of the United States.  Professor Child's grandparents were among the thousands who attended the schools. She draws on her own family story to humanize the broader …

THE ENSLAVEMENT OF INDIGENOUS PEOPLE AND AFRICANS IN CUBA: CONTRIBUTIONS FROM ARCHAEOLOGICAL RESEARCH ROBERTO VALCÁRCEL ROJAS MUSEO DEL HOMBRE DOMINICANO, DOMINICAN REPUBLIC Room 1208A Turlington Hall, Thursday, April 11, 2024, 3:00 pm In recent years, archaeological research has brought us closer to a form of slavery that is almost unknown or considered unimportant: that of …

The Royal Inca Tunic: A Biography of an Ancient Andean Masterpiece Andrew James Hamilton, Associate Curator of Arts of the Americas, Art Institute of Chicago, and Lecturer, Department of Art History, University of Chicago

Between the Devil and the Deep Blue Sea: Color, Catholicism, and the Continuance of Maya Religiosity in Sixteenth-Century Yucatán Amara Solari, Samuel H. Kress Senior Fellow, National Gallery’s Center for Advanced Study in the Visual Arts, 2024–2025, and Professor of Art History and Anthropology, Penn State University.