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October 2023
Native America, Season 2, Episode 2
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 better 21st century.
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Native America, Season 2, Episode 3
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 better 21st century.
Find out more »Native America, Season 2, Episode 4
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 better 21st century.
Find out more »February 2024
Screening of “Bad Press”
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 to pass a constitutional amendment protecting the right of media to report the news unfettered and free – one of the few U.S. tribes to…
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2nd Annual Alfred A. Cave Lecture
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 history of segregated Indian education. Monday, March 4, 2024, 3:00 pm, Smathers Library 100 Free and open to the public
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Enslavement of Indigenous People and Africans in Cuba
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 indigenous people, called Indians by the colonizers. This was common until the mid-16th century and precedes and coexists with that imposed on Africans. It…
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