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Architects of their future Four Native American students make history at the Graduate School of Design Campus| DateJune 1, 2020June 19, 2020
Unhidden figures Conference encourages women of color to pursue doctorates in physics Science| DateOctober 7, 2019October 30, 2019
Harvard Project releases Tribal Justice Systems nation-building toolbox News +| DateAugust 22, 2019October 2, 2019
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New faculty: Shawon Kinew Art historian maintains deep connections to landscapes of her youth News| DateSeptember 19, 2018December 7, 2018
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Musician to filmmaker to Native American historian After offbeat career track, Philip Deloria arrives as Harvard’s first tenured professor in the field World| DateFebruary 13, 2018July 19, 2019
We speak, therefore we are Maskoke language preservationist and HDS alum discusses his work on Gazette podcast Arts| DateNovember 22, 2017January 23, 2019
Native leader, legal beacon Julian SpearChief-Morris is the first indigenous student to head Harvard Law School’s venerable Legal Aid Bureau World| DateNovember 17, 2017November 20, 2017
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New World devastation Research captures ferocity, wide impact of Native American depopulation Science| DateJanuary 28, 2016
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Mystery of Native Americans’ arrival Study shows three waves, not one, carried people to New World Science| DateJuly 24, 2012July 22, 2019
Tradition of the powwow Event offers welcoming look at past, present, and future Arts| DateApril 30, 2012July 11, 2019
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Honor for Native American Harvard to award degree to student who died in 1665 just before Commencement Campus| DateMay 11, 2011July 19, 2019
Native American honored Harvard Foundation unveils portrait of first Native American grad Campus| DateDecember 17, 2010July 18, 2019
Living the lessons we have learned A Native American student ponders the lives of her Harvard Campus| DateApril 29, 2010July 24, 2019
Building on tradition Harvard students build a traditional wetu using poles and bark Arts| DateApril 29, 2010
Harvard American Indian Project honored with leadership award Campus| DateMarch 18, 2010April 10, 2019
Johnson at 300 Celebrating a man of letters whose words still sing and sting Arts| DateSeptember 2, 2009
![“In the Southwest, first contact between native people and Europeans occurred in 1539,” said Matthew Liebmann, the John and Ruth Hazel Associate Professor of the Social Sciences in the Department of Anthropology. “We found that disease didn’t really start to take effect until after 1620, but we then see a very rapid depopulation from 1620 to 1680. [The death rate] was staggeringly high — about 87 percent of the native population died in that short period."](https://news.harvard.edu/wp-content/uploads/2016/01/mattl_605-400x267.jpg)
