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Tag: Harvard University Native American Program
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Campus & Community
Stepping toward justice
Repair & Responsibility conference brings together Native, University leaders to advance conversation
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Campus & Community
‘We are not people of the past’
Brings Native students, others from neighboring Indigenous communities together to connect, celebrate roots.
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Nation & World
Go for Tommy Orange lecture. Stay for surprise reading of new book.
Acclaimed Cheyenne and Arapaho writer offers first public sample of hotly awaited novel at Native American Program event.
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Arts & Culture
Free Thursday evenings? Like theater? Mixed media? Dance?
The ArtsThursdays initiative increases accessibility and availability of Harvard arts for University affiliates and the wider community.
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Nation & World
When pipe ritual helps more than talk therapy
Joseph Gone details research on integrating Native healing practices into clinical mental health services.
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Campus & Community
Not only game
Aubree Muse graduated from the College in December 2021. She was recruited by Harvard to play on the softball team but had to quit the sport after she had spine surgery to remove a tumor inside a lumbar vertebra.
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Arts & Culture
In the key of Lakota: Rapper Frank Waln performs at ArtLab
Sicangu Lakota rapper Frank Waln wove storytelling, rapping, and instrumentals into an emotional performance at Harvard’s ArtLab on March 30, just his third live show since the pandemic began.
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Nation & World
Native American program turns 50
The Harvard University Native American Program is celebrating its 50th anniversary. We look at how it started and its hopes for the future.
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Nation & World
Giving thanks for what, exactly?
Natives at Harvard College held the Indigenous Inspirers Panel two days before Thanksgiving to discuss how Indigenous people celebrate Thanksgiving. Among the panelists were North Dakota State Rep. Ruth Buffalo, Sadada Jackson, Autumn Peltier, Chenae Bullock, Pua Case, and Tara Houska.
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Arts & Culture
Museums of Native culture wrestle with decolonizing
A panel of museum experts discuss the ways in which museums, which are quintessential colonial institutions, can recreate their missions and practices to respond to social unrest and demands for inclusion and representation.
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Campus & Community
Taking a shot on goal
Maryna Macdonald is a defender with the women’s ice hockey team and a member of British Columbia’s Ditidaht First Nation.
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Campus & Community
Choctaw Nation’s Burrage thrives at Harvard
Truman Burrage is a stellar graduating senior, an Oklahoma native, and a member of the Choctaw Nation who has been admitted to Harvard Law School.
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Campus & Community
Celebrating Native American culture
The 24th annual Harvard Powwow, to be held May 4, celebrates Native American peoples and cultures.
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Campus & Community
For Native Americans, a duo represents
Connor Veneski and Chance Fletcher are Native American students at Harvard Law School. Veneski is the first student from a tribal university ever admitted to the Law School and Fletcher is the first recipient of the first American Indian College Fund Law School Scholarship.
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Campus & Community
Young, female, Native American, scientist
Six female Native Americans took part in the Summer Research Experience for Undergraduates at the Harvard John A. Paulson School of Engineering and Applied Sciences.
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Campus & Community
Helping Native Americans help themselves
Students who take “Native Americans in the 21st Century” leave the classroom to visit communities in Indian country to help them build healthier communities and reduce disparities in education, health, and economics.
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Campus & Community
Being true to himself
Damon Clark ’17 will graduate with a greater knowledge of Navajo history and culture and a renewed pride in his indigenous identity.
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Nation & World
Saying no to the Dakota Access Pipeline
Foes of the Dakota Access Pipeline under land owned by the Standing Rock Sioux explain their opposition and cite the lessons learned during their protests.
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Nation & World
A tension as old as the country
The Gazette interviewed Kristen Carpenter ’98, Oneida Indian Nation Visiting Professor of Law, about the current relations between Native Americans and state and federal government.
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Campus & Community
Native Americans at Harvard
Native Americans from many tribes make up a small but vital segment of the Harvard community.
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Arts & Culture
Photographing Native American cultures
“Seeds of Culture: The Portraits and Stories of Native American Women” is on view through May 28 at the Johnson-Kulukundis Family Gallery. The exhibit features 25 photos of Native American women, with interviews, written narratives, music, and song.
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Nation & World
A hearing for pleas to right wrongs
A new project to digitize petitions from Native Americans to the Massachusetts legislature seeks to illuminate the history of the region’s native peoples, for scholars, students, and the tribes themselves.
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Campus & Community
Lowe selected for National Council on the Humanities
Shelly C. Lowe, the executive director of the Harvard University Native American Program and a leading advocate for Native Americans in higher education, has been confirmed by the United States Senate and appointed by President Obama to join the National Council on the Humanities.
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Campus & Community
Uncovering history, via shovel
A freshman peers into the dawn of Harvard, as he works on the Indian College excavation site.
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Arts & Culture
Tradition of the powwow
The Harvard University Native American Program sponsored the annual Harvard Powwow celebration that brought together Native American singers, dancers, and drummers at the Radcliffe Yard on Aprl 28.
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Campus & Community
Digging the rain
A ceremony under soggy skies on Sept. 8 kicked off the semester’s exploration of the archaeology of Harvard Yard. The event included speeches from University officials, and Native Americans from the Harvard community and the region.
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Science & Tech
They dig the past
Harvard Summer School students broke ground June 29 for the biennial archaeology class investigating the long history of Harvard Yard. Students will resume the search for traces of the Harvard Indian College, where the College’s first Indian students lived and studied.
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Nation & World
Shock amid the service
A winter break trip to the Navajo Nation in New Mexico shows the realities of poverty to a group of Harvard undergraduates.
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Nation & World
Candid chat with Choctaw chief
Leader of the Choctaw Nation visits Harvard classroom to discuss how he helped the Indian tribe to reorganize and solve many of its own problems.
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Arts & Culture
Helping others thrive
As the new executive director of the Harvard University Native American Program, Shelly Lowe plans to help Native American students utilize the resources that are available to them through the University.