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Jennifer Lowell and Brandon Stephens, students of the course "Native Americans in the 21st Century," met with the Aroostook Band of Micmac Indians in Maine, where an estimated 80 percent of Micmacs live in poverty.

Helping Native Americans help themselves

Harvard program, students grapple with problems facing tribal communities

Campus|

DateMarch 26, 2018March 27, 2018

Damon Clark '17 is a Native American social studies concentrator. After graduation, he will travel to New Zealand, where he will spend a year studying the Maori indigenous people.

Being true to himself

Damon Clark ’17 nurtured his Native American identity from Harvard’s environment and resources

Campus|

DateMay 22, 2017May 23, 2017

A panel discussed the Dakota Access Pipeline under land owned by the Standing Rock Sioux, explaining their opposition and lessons learned during their protests.
Among the panelists: Nick Estes (from left) of the Lower Brule Sioux Tribe (LBST); Chase Iron Eyes of the Lakota/Standing Rock Sioux Tribe; Jace Cuney DeCory of the Lakota/Cheyenne River Sioux Tribe; Jeffrey Ostler, professor at the University of Oregon; Lewis Grass Rope of the LBST; Harvard Professor Lisa McGirr. Speaking is Shelly Lowe, executive director of the Harvard University Native American Program.

Saying no to the Dakota Access Pipeline

Opponents of project under Sioux land see echoes of past injustices

World|

DateMarch 27, 2017

Kristen Carpenter, the Oneida Indian Nation Visiting Professor of Law at Harvard Law School, talks about the state of American Indian Law in light of a recent conference on indigenous rights.

A tension as old as the country

Legal scholars put focus on Native American rights

World|

DateOctober 21, 2016October 24, 2016

Native Americans at Harvard

From the Indian College to student support programs and pow wows

Campus|

DateJune 9, 2016September 7, 2016

“I couldn’t not talk about what’s happening to our Indian women,” said Matika Wilbur, who noted that her subjects are “so much more” than victims.

Photographing Native American cultures

Matika Wilbur, whose work is on display at Radcliffe, is traveling the nation to record women of every tribe

Arts|

DateMay 5, 2016December 18, 2017

"This project is part of a larger effort that Harvard and other institutions are making to clarify and highlight the role that native people played in our history and government,” said Daniel Carpenter, Allie S. Freed Professor of Government and director of the Radcliffe Institute's social sciences program.

A hearing for pleas to right wrongs

Scanning project seeks to digitize Native American petitions

World|

DateFebruary 19, 2016

Shelly Lowe, executive director of the Harvard University Native American Program and a leading advocate for Native Americans in higher education, is one of three scholars selected to join the council, which consists of 26 distinguished citizens who meet three times a year in Washington, D.C., to make recommendations on grant applications and advise the chairman of the National Endowment for the Humanities.

Lowe selected for National Council on the Humanities

News|

DateFebruary 3, 2016

Harvard College student Matthew DeShaw participated in the 10th annual Harvard Yard dig (photo 1), alongside Jeffrey Zhao '16 and Matthew C. Gschwend '16 (photo 2), which DeShaw said turned up "a few pieces of coal, aggregates of rock, shards of glass, and an MBTA token" (photo 3).

Uncovering history, via shovel

Freshman peers into the dawn of Harvard, at Indian College excavation site

Campus|

DateSeptember 29, 2014

The Harvard Powwow shared space this weekend in Radcliffe Yard with the Arts First festival.

Tradition of the powwow

Event offers welcoming look at past, present, and future

Arts|

DateApril 30, 2012

Students, faculty, and Native American tribal representatives gathered to officially kick off the fall archaeology season in Harvard Yard Sept. 8. “It’s not just a Harvard story; you’re telling a tribal story,” Shelly Lowe (left, under tent), executive director of the Harvard University Native American Program, said.

Digging the rain

Archaeology project on Harvard’s earliest days begins anew

Campus|

DateSeptember 9, 2011

Diana Loren, a lecturer on anthropology and associate curator at the Peabody Museum of Archaeology and Ethnology, said this year’s dig in Harvard Yard will focus on what appears to be a foundation trench uncovered during the last dig, in 2009.

They dig the past

Archaeology students resume hunt for signs of Indian College

Science|

DateJune 30, 2011

In January, 10 Harvard undergraduates went to Grants, N.M., a small city just east of the Continental Divide. The students, working with two Ohio medical volunteers, did child health surveys at Head Start Program operations in one corner of the vast Navajo Nation tribal area. In borrowed Ford Expeditions, the students also delivered food and firewood to elderly Navajo.

Shock amid the service

Seeing, doing among the Navajo in New Mexico

World|

DateFebruary 3, 2011

Candid chat with Choctaw chief

Chief Gregory Pyle describes major push to improve tribal life

World|

DateFebruary 24, 2010

Helping others thrive

Shelly Lowe brings her life experience to Harvard’s Native American Program

Arts|

DateSeptember 1, 2009