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Guest Speaker: Their Determination to Remain

Tue, 03/15/2022 - 4:13pm

March 25 at 3pm join us for a discussion on a North Carolina Cherokee Community's Determination to Remain during the Trail of Tears. Meet at 221 LeConte Hall- event is free!! You are invited to a Zoom meeting. When: Mar 25, 2022 03:00 PM Eastern Time (US and Canada) Register in advance for this meeting: https://zoom.us/meeting/register/tJUlde6sqjsvH9U4uwQj0nG8Xw0sou0nM7DP

Establishing Sustainable Community: Cultivating Indigenous Relationships

Tue, 02/08/2022 - 2:01pm

This presentation offers an opportunity to learn with the presenters as they cultivate profound relationships among native students, faculty, an organic rural farm Cooperative, and the land. The presenters highlight how indigenous communities land based praxis makes the revolution irresistible. This event is cosponsored by the Wilson Center for the Humanities and Arts the Mary Frances Early College of Education's Department and the Institute of…

Jerod Impichaachaaha-Tate, a Chickasaw Composer Artist Talk

Tue, 02/01/2022 - 9:13pm

Jerod Impichaachaaha-Tate, a Chickasaw Composer part of the "Homeland Returns" Series with Dr. Garrison, Department of Anthropology and Mr. Wilson, Department of English present a zoom talk on February 10th 2022, 11:00 am EST. zoom. Jerod Impichaachaaha-Tate is a classical composer, citizen of the Chickasaw Nation in Oklahoma and is dedicated to the development of American Indian classical composition. Tate was appointed 2021 Cultural…

Lab Talk: "Ancient DNA for Archaeology in the Genomic Era"

Fri, 01/21/2022 - 10:11am

Meet the speaker of the upcoming Lab Talk, "Ancient DNA for Archaeology in the Genomic Era" on Friday, Jan. 28 at 4:00 PM Eastern. Dr. Logan Kistler is a Curator and Research Anthropologist at the Smithsonian National Museum of Natural History. He is an environmental archaeologist whose research program uses ancient DNA and genomics to study the evolution of domestic plants and other human–environment interactions. Register at https…

Virtual Talk: "The White Indians of Mexican Cinema: Racial Masquerade in the Golden Age"

Fri, 01/21/2022 - 10:10am

Dr. Mónica García Blizzard of Emory University will present her Virtual Talk: "The White Indians of Mexican Cinema: Racial Masquerade in the Golden Age" on zoom. Email rnavitsk@uga.edu for registration and zoom link. Presented by the Department of Theatre and Film Studies.

Dr. Lee Hester, "Pretindians and Modern Culture"

Tue, 09/29/2020 - 10:11am

The Institute of Native American Studies and the Department of Philosophy present a lecture by Dr. Lee Hester "Pretendians and Modern Culture: A Rambling Native American Narrative on Cultural Imposters Dr. Hester is a citizen of the Choctaw Nation and as a professor and Director of American Indian Studies at the University of Science and Arts of Oklahoma, he is one of the leading Native…

Conference: Transnationalism and the Red Atlantic

Mon, 01/27/2020 - 3:41pm

Transnationalism and the Red Atlantic February 7-8, 2020 Recentering Atlantic world history on the Indigenous peoples of the Western Hemisphere, as Paul Gilroy recentered it around the African Diaspora in The Black Atlantic has taken a central place in Native American studies since 2010. In this first major reassessment of the Red Atlantic in a decade, INAS brings together the leading scholars working in the area for an international…

Stacy Leeds' Talk Postponed. New Time and Date to follow.

Wed, 01/15/2020 - 4:42pm

Title: "CHEROKEE JUSTICE: Yesterday, Today, and Tomorrow" Stacy Leeds is a former justice on the Cherokee Nation Supreme Court. From 2011-2018, Leeds served as the dean of the University of Arkansas School of Law and was the first native woman to serve as dean of a law school in the United States. She is a recipient of the American Bar Association's Spirit of Excellence Award and an elected member of the American Law Institute. She is a former…

"Cherokee Removal and the Trail of Tears: The Unlearned Lessons of Populism Today." Chad Smith (Cherokee Nation)

Wed, 10/02/2019 - 5:57pm

"Cherokee Removal and the Trail of Tears: The Unlearned Lessons of Populism Today." Chad Smith, Former Principal Chief of the Cherokee Nation. Chad Smith looks at the rise of a hard-edged populism with Andrew Jackson, leading to Cherokee Removal from their homeland in Georgia and the Southeast. He then will examine what that example tells us about our present situation in the United States. This event is sponsored by the Institute of…

A Reading by William S. Yellowrobe, Jr.

Wed, 04/10/2019 - 8:00pm

The Institute of Native American Studies invites you to join us for a reading by celebrated playwright William S. YellowRobe. He is presently an adjunct faculty member in the English Department at the University of Maine and a Faculty Affiliate of the Creative Writing Department at the University of Montana in Missoula, Montana. His books include; Grandchildren of the Buffalo Soldiers: and Other Untold Stories, a collection of…

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