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Native American Film Series

The American Indian and Indigenous Studies (AIIS) Program at the University of Florida is pleased to present a Native American Film Series in March 2021

Significant Timelines in American Indian History

Anderson Hall, Room 216 1507 W University Ave, Gainesville, FL, United States

Pat Arnould (Citizen of the United Houma Nation - Louisiana) holds a B.S. degree in Accounting and an MBA from Southeastern Louisiana University (SLU) in Lafayette.

Challenges to the Protection of Native American Sacred Sites

Anderson Hall, Room 216 1507 W University Ave, Gainesville, FL, United States

A scholar of American Government raised in the Southwest, Professor Richard Conley, PhD holds a doctorate from the University of Maryland (1998) and an M.A. from McGill University in Montréal, Canada (1993).

Acknowledging Indigenous Land

Anderson Hall, Room 216 1507 W University Ave, Gainesville, FL, United States

Ginessa Mahar will be speaking on the relevant history of the University of Florida as a land grant university on Indigenous land and the ongoing efforts to develop a land acknowledgment for the George A. Smathers Libraries.

Indigenous Cultural Dance Presentation

Reitz Union, Room 3315 686 Museum Rd, Gainesville, FL, United States

Experience music, and various styles of dance, storytelling, sharing of Native artifacts with Native Insights. Hosted by the Gator Chapter of the American Indian Science and Engineering Society.

Arts and Culture Panel

Reitz Union, Room G320 686 Museum Rd, Gainesville, FL, United States

We will be hosting a panel of three indigenous artists: Naiomi Glasses Tyler Wilson Glasses, Jr. Bryce Burrell Hosted by the Gator Chapter of the American Indian Science and Engineering Society.

Film Screening: Words from a Bear

Smathers 100

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