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"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, 2016May 2, 2019

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

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, 2011June 17, 2019

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, 2011July 19, 2019

Associate Curator Diana Loren (left) and Senior Curatorial Assistant Christina Hodge at the dig site in front of Matthews Hall where “The Archaeology of Harvard Yard” class continues its work uncovering the College’s roots.

Deep into Harvard’s roots

Students learn archaeology, Harvard history in hands-on class

Campus|

DateSeptember 11, 2009

Helping others thrive

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

Arts|

DateSeptember 1, 2009