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November 2022
Film Screening: Words from a Bear
Come join AIIS members and friends for a screening of the 2019 film Words from a Bear. The film explores the life of Pulitzer-prize winning Kiowa author, N. Scott Momaday, one of the most celebrated Native American authors of poetry and prose. Free and open to the public; food served, casual discussion to follow Hosted in partnership with the Florida Museum of Natural History and the George A. Smathers Libraries
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Arts and Culture Panel
Gator Chapter of the American Indian Science and Engineering Society is hosting a panel of three Indigenous artists: Naiomi Glasses Tyler Wilson Glasses, Jr. Bryce Burrell Zoom link available
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Indigeneity: An Historical Reflection on a Very European Idea
Lecture by Dr, Judith Friedlander
Thursday, February 9, 2023, 4-6 pm, Smathers 100
Seminole Tribal Fair and Pow Wow
The Seminole Tribe of Florida will host its 50th annual celebration of Native culture and arts on February 10-12, 2023 in Hollywood, Florida. Go to this eventbrite page for details
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A Conversation with Chief Afukaka: Indigenous Peoples and Partnerships in the Brazilian Amazon
A public conversation with Chief Afukaka Kuikuro, the Paramount Chief of the Kuikuro Indigenous Nation along the southern fringes of the Brazilian Amazon. Chief Afukaka will discuss his views on collaborations with archaeologists, anthropologists, linguists and other scientists over the past three decades.
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Alfred A. Cave Scholarship Deadline
The application deadline for Alfred A. Cave Scholarship is March 31, 2023. For details on the award go to the Awards Page
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Inaugural Alfred A. Cave Lecture
The Inaugural Alfred A. Cave Lecture will be delivered by renowned University of Georgia historian Claudio Saunt. The Land Beneath Our Feet: Indian Removal, Crimes of State, and Public Memory Monday, April 17, 2023, 3:00 pm, Smathers 100 In the 1830s, the United States carried out one of the first state-sponsored mass deportations of the modern era. Claudio Saunt will describe how the United States expelled eighty thousand Native Americans from their homelands and explore how online mapping can reinscribe…
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Criminalizing Choctaw Whooping
The Criminalization of Whooping in the Nineteenth-Century Choctaw Nation: A Case Study in Language and History Friday October 13th 3pm Turlington 2349 The Choctaw Language and History Workshop George Aaron Broadwell, University of Florida Frankie Bauer, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill Edward Green, Pennsylvania State University Jamie Henton Pennsylvania State University Seth Katenkamp, Yale University Julie Reed, Pennsylvania State University Christina Snyder, Pennsylvania State University Michael Stoop, University of Florida Matthew Tyler, Cambridge University Abstract: In the 19th century, the Choctaw…
Find out more »Season 2 of Native America
NATIVE AMERICA returns this October to PBS with four new hour-long episodes that present a groundbreaking portrait of contemporary Native America. Building on the first season’s success, Season 2 of the Native-directed series reveals the beauty and power of today’s Indigenous communities.
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