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Tag: Indigenous People
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Arts & Culture
Imagining an alternative America from a Native perspective
“Moving Through History” is an immersive installation happening Wednesday and Thursday as part of the Creating Equal initiative.
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Arts & Culture
Curating the future
An exhibit of indigenous-language materials is now housed in Tozzer Library. The exhibit will run until June 2020.
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Campus & Community
New faculty: Shawon Kinew
Q&A with Shawon Kinew as part of a series introducing new faculty members.
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Campus & Community
Peabody awarded NEH grant
The Peabody Museum of Archaeology and Ethnology will soon put thousands of one-of-a-kind ethnographic and archaeological photos from around the world online for the public and researchers, thanks to a new $215,000 grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH).
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Arts & Culture
In the ether of radio waves, indigenous talk finds its place
Amid the pop music countdowns, the nightly news, and the laugh-show programs, radio waves across the world crackle softly with the voices of indigenous peoples. Their stories — too often unheard — tell of struggles for recognition, enfranchisement, territory, and cultural preservation. For these communities, radio does far more than entertain.
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Nation & World
Redressing five centuries of injustice: A start
On May 4, 1493 — less than a year after Columbus set foot in the New World — Pope Alexander VI issued “Inter Caetera,” a papal bull that still resonates more than five centuries later.
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Arts & Culture
Student curators highlight American Indian cultural ‘Remix’
Kelsey Leonard grew up on New York’s Long Island, bombarded by society’s common images of American Indians that included casino owners, alcoholics, and basket-weaving natives.
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Science & Tech
Indigenous culture clarifies nature and limits of how humans measure
The ability to map numbers onto a line, a foundation of all mathematics, is universal, says a study published in the journal Science, but the form of this universal mapping is not linear but logarithmic.