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Tag: Native American
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Nation
What the Osage taught Scorsese about ‘Killers of the Flower Moon’
Members to detail role of tribe in making of new film, legacy of murders on community at Kennedy School event
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Campus & Community
Strengthening ties between Harvard, nation’s Native communities
HUNAP Director Kelli Mosteller looks to strengthen ties between Harvard and nation’s Native communities.
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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
Bringing two worlds together
Harvard Graduate School of Education grad Nolan Altvater ’22 plans to work on changing education policy regarding Wabanaki culture in Maine public schools.
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Nation & World
Student of history makes history
Inspired by family and tribe, Samantha Maltais plans a future focused on Indigenous rights, environmental justice.
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Campus & Community
Fighting inequities in medical education, health care
Victor Lopez-Carmen is the recipient of the 2021 Herbert W. Nickens Medical Student Scholarship for his work to eliminate inequities in medical education.
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Campus & Community
Harvard Extension is good fit for CEO of Native American nonprofit
Chris James, president and CEO of The National Center for Native American Enterprise Development in Mesa, Arizona, shares his Extension School experience.
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Campus & Community
Blazing trails for others to follow
Eli Langley graduates as Harvard’s first Coushatta and the youngest Koasati speaker.
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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
For the first time, a Native American may oversee U.S. policies on tribal nations
Harvard community members react to the nomination of Rep. Deb Haaland as secretary of Interior, the first Native American in the department that is home to the Bureau of Indian Affairs.
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Nation & World
A day of reckoning
We ask members of the Harvard community: “Is this the end of Columbus Day and how can America best replace it?”
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Campus & Community
Architects of their future
For the first time in its history, the Harvard Graduate School of Design has four Native American students enrolled.
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Science & Tech
Unhidden figures
LaNell Williams wants to encourage more women of color to pursue doctorate degrees in fields such as physics. To help make that happen, she founded the Women+ of Color Project, which last week hosted a three-day workshop that invited 20 African American, Latinx, and Native American women interested in pursuing a career in a STEM…
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Arts & Culture
Where ideas, tensions converge
Mayra Rivera draws on her cross-disciplinary background in her role as Harvard’s faculty chair of the Committee on Ethnicity, Migration, Rights.
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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
Battling stereotypes of Native Americans
A profile of Tristan Ahtone, a 2017‒2018 Nieman Fellow and a member of the Kiowa tribe of Oklahoma. He’s the fourth Native American Nieman Fellow since the organization was founded in 1938.
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Nation & World
Musician to filmmaker to Native American historian
Philip Deloria has joined Harvard’s history department as the School’s first tenured Native American professor.
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Arts & Culture
We speak, therefore we are
Divinity School alum and indigenous Maskoke person Marcus Briggs-Cloud discusses his efforts to maintain his ancestral language and identity in the next installment of the Gazette’s podcast “Heard at Harvard.”
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Nation & World
Native leader, legal beacon
Julian SpearChief-Morris is the first indigenous president of the Harvard Legal Aid Bureau in its 104 years. The bureau is the country’s oldest student-run organization providing free legal services, and one of the three honor societies at Harvard Law School.
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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
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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Science & Tech
New World devastation
A new study led by Harvard’s Matthew Liebmann examines the health and ecological consequences of European colonists’ contact with Native Americans.
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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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Campus & Community
College admits Class of ’18
Harvard College has sent admission notifications to 2,023 students, 5.9 percent of the applicant pool of 34,295. Included are record numbers of African-American and Latino students, who constitute 11.9 and 13 percent of the admitted class, respectively.
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Campus & Community
Different and not
For Cesar Alvarez, the move from his small North Dakota village was a major one, but his Harvard experience has reinforced values he’s carried since childhood.
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Science & Tech
Mystery of Native Americans’ arrival
Research led by scientists at Harvard and University College London has shown that Native Americans arrived in three waves of migration, not one, as is commonly held and that at least one group returned home to Asia.
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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
2,032 admitted to Class of ’16
Letters and email notifications of admission to Harvard College have been sent to 2,032 students. More than 60 percent of families of students admitted to the Class of 2016 will benefit from an unprecedented $172 million in undergraduate financial aid.
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Science & Tech
From marsh to Yard
Students digging in Harvard Yard uncovered a major feature in the final days before the site had to be filled: a stone-lined trench that likely began the conversion of the marshy area to the high and dry land of today.
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Campus & Community
Honor for Native American
Harvard University plans to honor Joel Iacoomes, one of the first Native Americans ever to attend the College, with a special posthumous degree at its 2011 Commencement exercises on May 26. Iacoomes died shortly before Commencement in 1665.
