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UGA Native American Student Association (NASA) presents Stanley Holder "Educating the Whole Child"

Mon, 10/31/2022 - 4:45pm

Stanley Holder is a member of the Wichita and Affiliated Tribes. He is a former Vice President of the tribe and has served in various capacities as an employee and member of tribal committees. He has an AA Degree in Psychology, a BS Degree in Psychology with a Minor in Criminal Justice (Cum Laude) and an MA Degree in Behavioral Science. He is a member of Phi Theta Kappa and Phi Kappa Phi the national honor societies for two-year colleges and…

UGA History Department's Lunch Time Time Machine Series: Why are there no American Indians in the story of Athens?

Wed, 10/19/2022 - 1:59pm

This installment of the History Department’s undergraduate lecture series is presented by Dr. James Brooks. Brooks is the recipient of numerous national awards for scholarly excellence. His 2002 "Triple-Crown" winning (Bancroft, Parkman, and Turner Prizes) Captives & Cousins: Slavery, Kinship and Community in the Southwest Borderlands focused on the traffic in women and children across the region as expressions of…

October Virtual Lectures With Alaka Wali

Sat, 10/15/2022 - 1:15pm

Register here! oin us in two weeks for the second installment of AIA Archaeology Hour, our new series of monthly evening lectures that’s part of the expanded National Lecture Program! Each AIA Archaeology Hour presentation will be repeated on two consecutive nights, first on Tuesdays at 7 pm PT and then on Wednesdays at 7 pm ET. Alaka Wali will present AIA Archaeology Hour lectures on Tuesday, October 18 at 7 pm PT (register…

UGA INAS presents Rebecca Nagle

Thu, 10/06/2022 - 5:50pm

Rebecca Nagle is an award-winning journalist and Cherokee Nation citizen. Her podcast This Land explores the deep history of Supreme Court cases related to tribal sovereignty in the US. Her writing on Native representation, federal Indian law, and tribal sovereignty has been featured in the Atlantic, the Washington Post, The Guardian, USA Today, Indian Country Today, and more. Rebecca Nagle is the recipient of the American Mosaic…

Craig Williams, "Not a Song of Golden Greek": Laura Cornelius Kellogg and Native North American Writing on Greco-Roman Antiquity

Tue, 09/06/2022 - 1:53pm

Craig Williams' talk, cosponsored by UGA's Classics Department and the Institute of Native American Studies, will focus on Laura Cornelius Kellogg and Native American Writing on Greco-Roman Antiquity. Dr. Williams' current book project, Whose Antiquity? Indigenous Writers of North America on Ancient Greece and Rome, brings together for the first time over eighty Native writers of North America who have made various uses of Greco-Roman…

Phillip Carroll Morgan, The Lost River

Tue, 09/06/2022 - 11:33am

Phillip Carroll Morgan (Choctaw/Chickasaw) will read from his work at UGA, October 13, 2022, 7:00 p.m. at UGA, location TBA. Morgan is an award-winning author of four Chickasaw Press titles: Chickasaw Renaissance and Riding Out the Storm: 19th Century Chickasaw Governors and Their Intellectual Legacy, and, co-author of Dynamic Chickasaw Women. Anompolichi: The Word Master, and his forthcoming, The Lost River, (2022) are both published by…

Mapping the Indigenous Futures of Post-Removal Mounds

Fri, 08/19/2022 - 12:23pm

Chadwick Allen will overview his new book, Earthworks Rising: Mound Building in Native Literature and Arts and discuss examples of how contemporary Indigenous communities are reengaging—and reimagining—ancient traditions of building large-scale earthworks. How do these post-Removal mounds make meaning for tribal citizens and broader audiences, especially when they are part of state-of-the-art public venues for Indigenous self-…

Finals Week Studying Tips

Sun, 05/01/2022 - 12:04am

2022 Torrance Festival of Ideas

Wed, 04/06/2022 - 6:21pm

2022 Torrance Festival of Ideas (Apr 19-21) Activist Bonn Baudelaire will share their experience working with Navajo women (in AZ) through a recorded interview and be present for a live Q&A discussion. Several other panels will also be on topics relevant to your students and faculty. REGISTER HERE The annual Torrance Festival of Ideas is a free online educational…

Women, Labor, and Power in the Nineteenth-Century Choctaw Nation

Mon, 03/21/2022 - 12:42pm

1:50 pm-2:50 pm EST (12:50-1:50 pm CST) Wednesday April 6, Professor Fay Yarbrough, Associate Dean of Humanities at Rice University, will present “Women, Labor, and Power in the Nineteenth-Century Choctaw Nation,” co-hosted by UGA professors Ervan Garrison and Jim Wilson for the Homeland Returns series at UGA. Yarbrough will discuss Choctaw women’s roles in Choctaw society during the tumultuous nineteenth century, which included the removal of…

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