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Fake News and Fabricated History:Ned Christie as the Symbol of the Wild West
November 4th
12:30 - 2:00 PM
Center for Humanities
Richter Library, First Floor, Flex B
UChat Indigenous Discussion
November 15th
6:00 - 7:00 PM
UM Debate Team/UChat
Storm Surge
MSA Unity Tabling Event
November 16th
12:00 - 2:00 PM
Unity/MSA
Lakeside Patio
Indigenous performances and artisans
November 28th
12:00 - 2:00 PM
IHC/NAGIS/MSA
Lakeside Stage and Patio
Lunch for Indigenous Students and Screening of Indigenous Film: Prey
November 30th
TBD
MSA/TBD
TBD
Lowes Museum Indigenous Art Tour
December 1st
11:00 AM - 3:00 PM
IHC/NAGIS/Lowes Museum
Lowes Museum
Indigenouus Art Installations | Campus
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Curator/IHC/NAGIS
Breezeway, Westbrook Walkway, Shalala Promenade
Indigenous Art Installations | Library
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Curator/IHC/NAGIS
Richter Library
November 3rd, 2022 Newman Alumni Center 7:00 PM RSVP: bit.ly/Stanford_Mihesuah
Please join NAGIS and the MLL Portugese Program for a special screening and discussion on October 19th. Merrick 210-02 (Conference Room #2) 5:30 PM
Exoticization in Collecting Institutions Confronting the Facade of Representation in Colonial Knowledge Systems and Creating Tactics for Indigenous Agency Date: April 26, 2022 Time: 1:00 p.m. Guest Speaker: Durante Blais-Billie, Tribal Member of the Seminole Tribe of Florida Hosted by: Library Indigenous Studies Group Durante Blais-Billie is a Two-Spirit member of the Seminole Tribe of Florida. Durante holds an M.A. in art history and management from the University of St. Andrews and has formerly served their tribe as the assistant director of the Ah-Tah-Thi-Ki Museum. They have also acted as a cultural representative and ambassador for their community under the title Miss Florida Seminole. Durante's work focuses on reclaiming Indigenous knowledge systems through Native-led education with the central mission of de-colonial healing. They are dedicated to exploring the intersections of Seminole identity, Indigenous knowledge, and Seminole visual culture. They utilize their lived experience and the knowledge gifted to them by their community to negotiate what ‘art history’ truly looks like for their people. Durante is also an advocate for cultural continuation through inter-generational organization and serves as a member of the independent youth council, Future Indigenous Leaders of South Florida. Working in their community, they are a founding contributor of their tribe’s first Two-Spirit Affirmation project where they advocate for Two-Spirit and LGBTQ+ rights as an essential part to community well-being.
The Portuguese Program at the University of Miami presents: Luso-Afro-Brazilian Film Series. Join us to watch the film and stay for a discussion. The film series will be presented with English subtitles and is open to anyone in the University of Miami community who would like to participate. This event will take place on two different dates. March 23, 2022 - Ser Tão Velho Cerrado April 20, 2022 - A Última Floresta Both events will take place at 1:00 p.m. in the Modern Languages & Literatures (MLL) Library in the Merrick Building, suite number 210-02.
Join us in hosting Mr. Alan Shane Dillingham in a discussion for a talk on his book: Oaxaca Resurgent: Indigeneity, Development, and Inequality in Twentieth-Century Mexico. Oaxaca Resurgent examines how Indigenous people in one of Mexico's most rebellious states shaped local and national politics during during the twentieth century. Mr. Dillingham is a citizen of the Choctaw Nation of Oklahoma and Assistant Professor of Latin American History at Albright College. Date: March 3, 2022 Time: 11:00 a.m. Location: Shalala Student Center, Activities Room South
Join us in hosting Mr. Joseph Pierce in a discussion answering the following questions: How do we relate to the stars as Kin? How do we star like them? This presentation argues that the work of relating to the celestial, kinstillatory praxis, offers routes of belonging that expand beyond the limits of colonial normativity. Mr. Pierce is an Associate Professor and Director of Undergraduate Studies in the Department of Hispanic Languages and Literatures at Stony Brook University. Date: February 25, 2022 Time: 10:00 a.m. Location: Miller Center for Contemporary Judaic Studies, Merrick Building, Suite 105
How do Maya women envision their emancipation? This presentation explores the answer to this question by offering a critical analysis of the poem, "Ix Tzib' (Woman Scribe)," written by Q'eqchi' Maya poet, Maya Cu Choc. Our guest speaker, Dr. Emil' Keme (K'iche' Maya Nation) is a member of the Maya anticolonial collective Ix'b'alamquej Junajpu Wanuaq' and is an Associate Professor at the University of North Carolina - Chapel Hill. He is the convener of the Critical Ethnic Studies collective at Carolina and the author of the book Le Maya Q'atzij/Our Maya World (2021), which was awarded Cuba's 2020 Casa de las Americas literary criticism prize.
Dr. Raymond Orr is the Associate Professor and Department Chair of Native American Studies, and an Affiliated Researcher at the Stephenson Cancer Center at the University of Oklahoma. He is also a Senior Fellow in the Atlantic Program for Social Equity at the University of Melbourne. Dr. Orr is currently developing projects on the intersection of trust, law, regulation, and health priorities in Native American communities.
The Native American and Global Indigenous Studies (NAGIS) group hosted a discussion with Sandra Xinico Batz. Sandra Xinico Batz is a Kakchiquel anthropologist, columnist, and educator. Her publications and activism address diverse issues involving Indigenous peoples of Guatemala, ranging from colonization, genocide, and migration to patriarchy, extractivism, and intellectual property rights.
This presentation will review collective research efforts funded by the National Instutitues of Health (NIH) to understand, intervene, and mitigate ADRD health disparities.
Date: October 11, 2021 Time: 6:00 p.m. ET This Indigenous Peoples' Day, NAGIS is hosting a virtual roundtable to uplift the voices of Indigenous students past and present, to learn from their experiences, and help create an impetus for change.
Sandy Littletree is a LIS educator and researcher with interests at the intersections of Indigenous systems of knowledge and the library and information science field. Her dissertation research focused on the history and development of tribal libraries in the United States, where she examined the themes of advocacy, leadership, self-determination, cultural knowledge, and government responsibilities to tribes. She has developed advocacy resources for tribal libraries, produced a series of oral histories that document the stories of Arizona’s tribal libraries, and oversaw the revision of the 3rd edition of TRAILS, a training manual designed for tribal libraries. As the former Program Manager for the Knowledge River project at the University of Arizona, she recruited and worked to retain students interested in serving Latino and Native American communities. She is a past president of the American Indian Library Association (AILA) and currently serves on several advisory boards for LIS projects in Indigenous communities in the US and Canada. She is an enrolled member of the Navajo Nation, originally from the Four Corners region of New Mexico.
This event will address the Indigenous ancestral land rights at stake during the upcoming Brazil’s Supreme Court hearing on August 25; damaging federal legislation under consideration; parallels with Native rights in the United States; and strategies for national and international mobilization and solidarity. Registration for this Zoom webinar is required.
The University of Miami invites you to, Documenting Diversity and Democracy in Brazil, a virtual symposium established as an exploration of the unique and multi-faceted Leila Míccolis Brazilian Alternative Press Collection. Featuring keynote and scholarly presentations, the event highlights the Collection’s intersectionalities and (dis)connections between burgeoning social and political movements in Brazil from the military dictatorship (1964–1985) to the present day. With a focus on human rights, social justice, and cross-fertilization of historical and sociopolitical trajectories, the presenters will shed light on recovering the voices of marginalized Brazilians.
A lecture and discussion featuring Dr. Lorienne Roy, Anishinabe, who is enrolled on the White Earth Reservation and a member of the Minnesota Chippewa Tribe. Dr. Roy is a Professor in the School of Information at the University of Texas at Austin (UT-Austin).