Wednesday, Feb. 1, 2006

HUNAP Winter 2006 Newsletter Distribution

Please contact Natasha Baker at 617-495-4923 to receive a copy.

Live Webcast of the National Congress of American Indians State of Indian Nations Address

You are invited to join HUNAP for a live webcast of the National Congress of American Indians (NCAI) Fourth Annual State of Indian Nations Address, to be delivered by NCAI President Joe A. Garcia. The address will take stock of the state of American Indian and Alaska Native nations in the United States. The speech will be delivered two days after President Bush's State of the Union Address and will relay to the President and the general public a comprehensive, contemporary and visionary picture of the challenges and opportunities before today’s American Indian and Alaska Native nations.

Lunch from 11:30am- 12pm; Webcast from 12pm- 1pm

For more information about the NCAI, please visit their website.

OPEN TO THE PUBLIC

HUNAP Town Hall Meeting

The town hall meeting is an opportunity for HUNAP students and staff to discuss programmatic events, community events, and issues unique to the Native experience at Harvard. Dinner will be provided.

Please RSVP to Natasha Baker at 617-495-4923.

OPEN TO HUNAP COMMUNITY ONLY

HUNAP Lunch Seminar Series

Photography of Identity: Exploring the Experience of a Native American Student in Higher Education by HGSE students Kerry Venegas & Marit Dewhurst

As educators seeking to better understand the multiple layers of personal, social, and cultural identity in higher education, Kerry Venegas and Marit Dewhurst explore the role of photography as a research methodology. Their pilot study of Native identity through photography highlights the importance of using innovative methodologies to authentically document and understand the complicated influence of identity in education, and the ways we can create positive and affirming learning experiences for all students.

For additional information, please contact Natasha Baker at 617-495-4923.

OPEN TO THE PUBLIC

Friday, February 10, 2006
Time: 6pm- 8pm
Location: Daedalus Restaurant, 45 1/2 Mt. Auburn Street, Cambridge

HUNAP Happy Hour

Take a break from your exams and papers, and join HUNAP this Friday for a little relaxation, good food, and great company. HUNAP will provide an assortment of appetizers and non-alcoholic drinks. Good luck with your work and we hope to see you on Friday!

For more information, please contact Steven Abbott at 617-495-9058

OPEN TO THE HUNAP COMMUNITY ONLY

Fri-Sat, February 10-11, 2006
Time: All Day
Location: Thompson Room, Barker Center, 12 Quincy Street, Cambridge, MA 02138

Folklore & Mythology Annual Symposium, "Performing Folklore"

You are invited to attend the Folklore & Mythology Department's Annual Symposium, Performing Folklore. This event includes a panel of students composed from Professor Lisa Brooks' course, Continuing Oral Traditions in Native American Literature, who will present their research on specific forms of American Indian folklore. Afterward, Cheryl Savageau (Abenaki) will hold a storytelling performance.

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Performing Community Panel – 10-11am
Lisa Brooks (Abenaki), Professor of Folklore & Mythology and History & Literature – Introduction
Jenny Davis ('06) – “Peter Kalifornsky: Working Dena'ina Country with Words”
Merritt Baer ('06) – “The Experience of the Sacred in Louise Erdrich's Poetry”
Matthew Granoff ('07) – “His Stories Live: The Storytelling Work of Joseph Bruchac”

Storytelling Performance – 11-11:30am
Cheryl Savageau (Abenaki)

Please visit the Performing Folklore website at http://www.fas.harvard.edu/~folkmyth/PerformingFolklore.htm

OPEN TO THE PUBLIC

Monday, February 13, 2006
Time: 11:30am- 1:30 pm
Location: HUNAP, Suite 100 Conference Room, 124 Mount Auburn Street, Cambridge, MA

Welcome Lunch for Professors Duane Champagne & Carole Goldberg

Please join us in welcoming visiting professors Duane Champagne (Turtle Mountain Band of Chippewa) and Carole Goldberg to Harvard University. We are thrilled that both of them have decided to join the community here at Harvard and look forward to hosting a warm welcome for them.

Professor Champagne is the HUNAP Visiting Senior Fellow and Visiting Professor of Sociology in the FAS and is teaching "Comparative Native American Societies."

Professor Goldberg is the Harvard Law School Oneida Indian Nation Visiting Professor of Law and is teaching Federal Indian Law and Tribal Legal Systems seminar.

For additional information, please contact Natasha Baker at 617-495-4923.

OPEN TO THE HARVARD COMMUNITY ONLY

HUNAP Lunch Seminar Series

Legalizing Indigenous Rights: Dilemmas and Practices in Taiwanese Indigenous Activism by HLS Researcher, Shun-ling Chen

Presentation Abstract: After being colonized by the Japanese and Taiwanese Chinese, indigenous peoples have been struggling for their cultural survival since the 1980s. They have adopted the language of "right" - identified as various kinds of indigenous rights - and have taken the "legalizing indigenous rights" approach as one of their major strategies. Although such approach may provide them with certain institutional assurance and protection for the fruits of their struggle, its inherent obstacles and dilemmas cannot be ignored.

Lunch will be provided.

Please contact Natasha Baker at 617-495-4923.

OPEN TO THE PUBLIC

Cultural Rhythms

The Harvard Intertribal Indian Dance Troupe (HIIDT) will be performing at this annual undergraduate student-produced event, featuring performances by various undergraduate groups and a celebrity host.

OPEN TO THE PUBLIC

Monday, February 27, 2006
Time: 4-6pm
Location: Bowie Vernon Room, Weatherhead Center for International Affairs, 2nd floor, CGIS-Knafel Building, 1737 Cambridge Street, Cambridge

Canada Seminar Series

The Politics and the Policies of Intangible Cultural Heritage in Canada by Gerald Pocius, Memorial University of Newfoundland.

Commentator: Richard Mackinnon, Canada Research Chair in Intangible Cultural Heritage, University of Cape Breton.

The politics of intangible cultural heritage has in recent years stirred up lively discussion and debate in Canada, in the United States, and in many other countries of the world. Intangible heritage, the patrimony of the people, is made up of rituals, beliefs, customs, music, festivals, storytelling, cuisine, and traditional knowledge, often expressed through material objects and cultural landscapes. Intangible cultural heritage policies need to be explored alongside process and practice to fully understand the politics of intangible cultural heritage at all levels.

The Canada Seminar examines Canadian economic, social, cultural, and political issues in their domestic and international dimensions. Because Canada and the United States, like many other industrialized countries, must respond to similar economic and social challenges with distinctly different institutional frameworks and historical legacies, the study of Canadian issues offers rich opportunities for scholars engaged in comparative studies. Please visit the website for more information: http://www.wcfia.harvard.edu/seminars/canada or contact Helen Clayton, program coordinator at hclayton@wcfia.harvard.edu.

OPEN TO THE PUBLIC

Native Voices, Native Homelands Series

New England Local Histories as Replacement Narratives

Jean O'Brien, Associate Professor of History, University of Minnesota and Ojibwe historian, will provide grounding in the regional historical landscape of Native New England. She will speak about her new book project, First and Lasting: New England Indians In and Beyond the Nineteenth-Century Local Imagination. Expanding beyond her work in the classic monograph, Dispossession by Degrees , Jean O'Brien explores the myth of New England Indian extinction that permeated New England in the nineteenth century, unpacking the local literatures and histories which masked, or “replaced,” the realities of Native adaptation and survival.

OPEN TO THE PUBLIC

HGSE Alumni of Color Conference

"Growth, Strength, and Action: Honoring Our Commitment to Individuals and Communities of Color," the Fourth Annual Alumni of Color Conference, which features the work of alumni of color from the Harvard Graudate School of Education, will include a variety if presentations from research practitioners currently in the field of education.

For additional information about the conference, please visit the HGSE Alumni of Color Conference website.

OPEN TO THE PUBLIC

HUNAP Town Hall Meeting

Please join us for the next Town Hall Meeting. We'll have brief updates from both HUNAP and the student organizations and then move on to our discussion of the evening. Several students will be facilitating a discussion on navigating difficult issues in and out of the classroom, including what you can do when you object to what a peer or faculty member puts out in a public forum and how, as a student, you can better navigate a predominately white institution. We hope that you are able to join us for a good meal and this important conversation.

Dinner will be provided.

Please RSVP to Natasha Baker at 617-495-4923.

OPEN TO HUNAP COMMUNITY ONLY

HUNAP Lunch Seminar Series

CASINO KINGS: Corporate Leadership in Indian Gaming by KSG MPA student Dan King (Red Lake Chippewa)

This presentation will be a comparison of leadership and organizational approaches and structures in American Indian casino operations vs. those in the traditional gaming industry.

Dan King is a Member of the Red Lake Band of Chippewa Indians and a Master's Degree student at the Kennedy School of Government in the Mid-Career MPA Program (he is scheduled to graduate in June 2006). Dan holds a BA in Business Management and an MBA, and comes to Harvard with almost two decades of business experience, including over fourteen years living and working on Indian reservations. He has committed his life to working on economic development issues on Indian reservations. This presentation is a summary of a research project and course paper at the Harvard Business School.

Lunch will be provided.

Please contact Natasha Baker at 617-495-4923.

OPEN TO THE PUBLIC

Native Voices, Native Homelands Series

Homeland: Four Portraits of Native Action
(produced by Katahdin Productions)
Screening & Discussion

Barry Dana, the former chief of the Penobscot Nation, will bring us directly to the interior of contemporary Native New England, and will show us its connections to other Native nations throughout the continent. He has played an instrumental leadership role in the battle against the powerful paper companies that dump toxins into the Penobscot River , the source of the nation's food and culture for 10,000 years. This battle is featured in the documentary film, Homeland: Four Portraits of Native Action , which portrays “leaders from four Native American communities,” including the Penobscot, Northern Cheyenne, Gwich'in, and Navajo nations, “who are passionately engaged in struggles to preserve sovereignty and save their lands from environmental degradation.”

Reception to follow.

OPEN TO THE PUBLIC

HUNAP Lunch Seminar Series

Creating a Vision of Justice: Tribal Law Enforcement on the Hoopa Valley Reservation by KSG student Heather Valdez-Singleton

Presentation Abstract: On reservations subject to state criminal jurisdiction, tribes can experience barriers to creating tribally controlled law enforcement agencies. In California, a state that exercises criminal jurisdiction in Indian Country, less than 10 of the 107 federally recognized tribes have tribal police departments. In this context, the Hoopa Valley Tribe in Northern California has managed to sustain the longest running tribal police force in the state. Despite the department's longevity and stability, they experience obstacles to effective policing on the reservation. This research explores several options the Hoopa Valley Tribe has to alleviate the problems related to tribal policing on the reservation. This report is a work in progress and comments are very welcome!

Lunch will be provided.

Please RSVP to Natasha Baker at 495-4923.

OPEN TO THE PUBLIC

HUNAP Native American Student-Faculty Dinner

This dinner is designed to provide both graduate and undergraduate students an opportunity to gather together with faculty from throughout the University in a casual networking environment. Students may invite 1 or 2 guests. These guests can be faculty with whom you have worked during your time here, people who have made a particular impact on you or your work, people whom you would like to get to know better, or even people you think might benefit from learning more about the Native American community at Harvard.

We'll have a brief welcome and introductory program, then time for you to meet with and speak with the guests that you and other students have invited.

Please RSVP to Natasha Baker at 617-495-4923.

HUNAP STUDENTS & INVITED GUESTS ONLY

HUNAP Happy Hour

Take a break from your exams and papers, and join HUNAP this Friday for a little relaxation, good food, and great company. HUNAP will provide an assortment of appetizers and non-alcoholic drinks.

Good luck with your work and we hope to see you on Friday!

For more information, please contact Steven Abbott at 617-495-9058

OPEN TO THE HUNAP COMMUNITY ONLY

HUNAP Town Hall Meeting

The town hall meeting is an opportunity for HUNAP students and staff to discuss programmatic events, community events, and issues unique to the Native experience at Harvard. Dinner will be provided.

Please RSVP to Natasha Baker at 617-495-4923.

OPEN TO HUNAP COMMUNITY ONLY

HUNAP Lunch Seminar Series

Malinda Maynor Lowery, Assistant Professor of History at Harvard University, will talk about her manuscript-in-progress, a study of Native American Identity in the Segregated South. She will particularly focus on the development of blood quantum as a membership criteria and the relationship between racial segregation and federal Indian policy.

Lunch will be provided.

Please RSVP to Natasha Baker at 495-4923.

OPEN TO THE PUBLIC

HUNAP Happy Hour

Take a break from your exams and papers, and join HUNAP this Friday for a little relaxation, good food, and great company. HUNAP will provide an assortment of appetizers and non-alcoholic drinks.

Good luck with your work and we hope to see you on Friday!

For more information, please contact Steven Abbott at 617-495-9058

OPEN TO THE HUNAP COMMUNITY ONLY

HUNAP Résumé/Cover Letter Workshop

Please join Tara Young, Administrative Fellow at the Harvard Buisness School, for a professional development workshop which will feature résumé and cover letter writing as well as a discussion of professional life skills. This is a wonderful opportunity for those students applying for jobs, fellowships, and grants.

For more information, please contact Natasha Baker at 617-495-4923.

OPEN TO THE HUNAP COMMUNITY ONLY

Native Voices, Native Homelands Series

Maori Indians, Maori Cowboys

Alice Te Punga Somerville, Lecturer in English, Victoria University of Wellington and Maori (Te Atiawa) literary scholar who specializes in the intersections between indigenous writing in the Americas and the Pacific, will take us to a transcontinental indigenous context. Educated in both Aotearoa (New Zealand) and the United States, she focuses on topics as diverse and exuberant as “Maori cowboys & Indians,” Maori readings of “Lord of the Rings,” and the relationship between postcolonial theory and indigenous scholarship. Playing on a familiar stereotype of the American west, Alice Te Punga Somerville's talk will focus on the relationships Indigenous peoples are articulating with each other in the global networks of the twenty-first century.

Reception at 6 pm.

OPEN TO THE PUBLIC

Wednesday, April 19, 2006

Time: 12 pm
Location: Fainsod Room, Littauer Building (3rd floor), KSG

HUNAP Lunch Seminar Series

King Philip's War in Landscape and Memory by Christine Delucia, Harvard College '06

Presentation Abstract: The presentation looks at two distinct forms of conjoining physical space and collective memory: settler monument-building, and native environmental marking. It considers what happens to oral and environmental modes of signification when radical changes—the adoption of writing, the re-creation of the physical landscape during modernization—affect native communities, using interviews with members of the Aquinnah and Chappiquidic Wampanoag as case studies. Finally, it historicizes the current land-use debate over Boston Harbor 's Deer Island and the proposal to construct a monument to the native genocide that there transpired. It asks whether Deer Island constitutes an urban redevelopment success and a workable compromise between diverse communities that lay claim to the island; or whether the act of compromise and monument-building is a signifier for native groups of cultural loss.

Lunch will be provided.

Please RSVP to Natasha Baker at 495-4923.

OPEN TO THE PUBLIC

Tuesday, May 2, 2006

Time: 6-8pm (reception from 6-6:30pm)
Location: 1737 Cambridge Street, CGIS, Room N354, Cambridge, MA 02138
MAP

Film Showing and Discussion

Film: "In the Light of Reverence," by Christopher McLeod
Produced by Malinda Maynor Lowery

This documentary film examines the plight of three Native American communities—the Lakota of the Great Plains, the Hopi of the Four Corners area, and the Wintu of northern California—as they struggle to protect land that is sacred to them. It explores the intersection of religion, law, and land in the United States. Malinda Maynor Lowery, co-producer of the film and Assistant Professor of History at Harvard University, will lead a discussion after the film. More information on the film is available at the distributor's website .

Sponsored by the Center for the Study of World Religions (CSWR). For additional information, please contact CSWR's events coordinator, Rebecca Esterson .

OPEN TO THE PUBLIC

Harvard University 11th Annual Powwow

FREE Admission

Day Money & Dinner for All Registered Dancers
Dancing & Singing Begins w/ Grand Entry at 1 pm

Host Drum: Whitetail Cree
Special Invite Drum: Black Brook Singers

MC: Vince Beyl (Ojibwe)
Arena Director: Elijah Hutchinson (Taino)

Head Lady Dancer: Amanda Proctor (Osage)
Head Man Dancer: Jarrid Whitney (Cayuga)

Please contact Natasha Baker at 617-495-8220 for additional information.

OPEN TO THE PUBLIC

Wednesday, May 10, 2006
Time: 12-1pm
Location: Bowditch Room, Peabody Museum, 11 Divinity Avenue, Cambridge, MA 02138

Directions to Museum.

Peabody Museum Brown Bag Lunch Talk

The Harvard Indian College: Literacy and Legacy by Sherri Clark, Harvard University Administrative Fellow & Assistant Curator, Peabody Museum.

A Preview of the New Peabody Museum Website. Lunch will be provided.

For additional information, please contact the Peabody Museum at 617-496-1027 or visit the Peabody Museum website.

OPEN TO THE PUBLIC

HUNAP Lunch Seminar Series

Understanding and Treating Alcoholism By Erica Scott (Lenape Delaware)

This presentation is a summary of the culmination of Ms. Scott's senior thesis research. The presentation first explains the disease of alcoholism and discusses risk factors that are particular to American Indians. Once a better definition and understanding of alcoholism has been presented, comorbidity of mental health disorders and historical trauma are discussed. Finally, this presentation discusses the effects of alcohol abuse present among the Oklahoma tribe in which ethnographic research was conducted. The objectives of this presentation are to inform attendees about alcoholism and dependency disparities among American Indians, examine historical trauma and its impact on alcoholism, and highlight specific impacts of alcoholism among a tribal community.

Erica A. Scott (Delaware) is currently a senior at Harvard University, where she is pursuing an A.B. in anthropology. Erica is also a Mellon Mays Undergraduate Fellow. Her fellowship and senior thesis research focus on medical anthropology, examining causes of and treatment methods for alcoholism in Indian Country. During her tenure at Harvard, Erica has served the Indian community in a variety of roles, including two years as President, one year as Vice-President, and one year as Treasurer of Native Americans at Harvard College (NAHC).

Lunch will be provided.

Please RSVP to Natasha Baker at 495-4923.

OPEN TO THE PUBLIC

HUNAP Happy Hour

Take a break from your exams and papers, and join HUNAP this Friday for a little relaxation, good food, and great company. HUNAP will provide an assortment of appetizers and non-alcoholic drinks.

Good luck with your work and we hope to see you on Friday!

For more information, please contact Steven Abbott at 617-495-9058.

OPEN TO THE HUNAP COMMUNITY ONLY

HUNAP Community Spring Feast

No agenda or program, just an opportunity for the entire community to gather together before the end of the academic year. Blue Ribbon BBQ will be served.

Unless the weather improves dramatically, we'll be in the Suite 100 conference room. If the weather improves and the grass is dry enough, we'll hold the dinner at the JFK Park (between the Kennedy School and Memorial Drive).

For more information, please contact Steven Abbott at 617-495-9058.

OPEN TO THE HUNAP COMMUNITY ONLY