Native American Studies
and
COMMUNITY EVENTS
at Yale
UPCOMING EVENTS Calendar
Fall ’05-Spring ‘06
September 2005
9/ongoing:
Celebrating Native American Studies at the Beinecke Library
Exhibition highlighting strengths of
the Beinecke collections in the areas of Native American history, culture,
linguistics, and literature.
9/16: Reading by Sherman Alexie, renowned
poet, novelist, and filmmaker.
3:00 pm Battell Chapel, corner
of College & Elm, Reception to follow at Beinecke
Library.
Sponsored
by the Walter McClintock Memorial Fund of the Yale Collection of Western
Americana and the Yale Collection of American Literature at the Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library, Davenport
College, the Native American Cultural Center at Yale University, and the Yale
Group for the Study of Native America.
9/29: Alfred A. Cave,
University of Toledo, “The 1637 Pequot War and the Question of Native American
Genocide”
1:30-3:20 pm,
ISPS Conference Room, 77 Prospect St.
Sponsored by Genocide Studies and the Lamar Center for the
Study of Frontiers and Borders.
October 2005
10/8-10: Indigenous People’s Weekend at the Peabody Museum (http://www.peabody.yale.edu/events/peoples.html)
~10/8 Saturday
1:00 pm (In
the Auditorium, 3rd floor) “Machu Picchu: Unveiling the
Mystery of the Incas”
With Yale
Professor of Anthropology Richard Burger
An archaeologist
specializing in the central Andes, Dr. Burger has carried out research in Peru
for over 2 decades. In this special lecture he will share insights about the
origins and uses of Machu Picchu that he and
co-curator Lucy Salazar present in the Museum’s acclaimed exhibition of the same
title.
2:00 pm (In the
Great Hall, 1st floor) Performance by Tahuantinsuyo
Tahuantinsuyo is a pioneer folk music
group from the Andes that helped pave the road for
many Andean groups in the United States today. In respect for their traditions,
Tahuantinsuyo uses regional instruments and costumes during
their multimedia presentations.
~10/9
Sunday
12:30 pm
(In the Great Hall, 1st floor) Philippine
American Association of Connecticut
Traditional dance and music performance
2:00 pm (In the Auditorium,
3rd floor) “How Corn Came to Us”
Shadow puppetry workshop
~10/10
Monday
1:00 pm (In
the Great Hall, 1st floor) Performance by Song Heng
Master
musician Song Heng, from Providence, Rhode Island,
plays the roneat (Cambodian xylophone)
accompanied by many Cambodian musicians and singers
2:00 pm (In the Auditorium, 3rd floor) “How Corn Came to Us”
Shadow puppetry workshop
through
10/14: Exhibit Honoring Henry Roe Cloud at the Sterling Memorial Library
Henry Roe Cloud was Yale's first Native American graduate
who went on to be one of the most recognized American Indian educators of the
early 20th century.
The exhibit is located to the right of the circulation desk (opposite the
elevators to leading to the stacks).
10/20: Andrea Bartoli,
Columbia University, “Preventing
Genocides of Indigenous Peoples”
1:30-3:20 pm, ISPS Conference Room, 77 Prospect St.
Sponsored by Genocide Studies.
10/27: Benjamin Madley,
Yale University, “Genocide of the Yuki and Tolowa in
Nineteenth-Century California”
1:30-3:20 pm, ISPS Conference Room, 77 Prospect St.
Sponsored by Genocide Studies and the Lamar Center for the
Study of Frontiers and Borders.
November 2005- Native Heritage Month!
11/1: Chiapas
Media Project/PROMEDIOS Presentation
4:00 pm, Location TBA
Celebrate
the beginning of Native American Heritage Month with a presentation by the Chiapas Media Project/PROMEDIOS. The Chiapas
Media Project/Promedios will present new videos
produced by indigenous video makers from the states of Chiapas
and Guerrero, Mexico. CMP/Promedios is an award
winning, bi-national partnership that provides video equipment, computers and training enabling
marginalized indigenous and campesino communities in
Southern Mexico to create their own media.
Sponsored
by the Yale Group for the Study of Native America, the Program in American
Studies, the Program in Ethnicity, Race, & Migration, the Office for
Diversity and Equal Opportunity of the
Graduate School of Arts and Sciences, and the Council on Latin American and
Iberian Studies.
11/3-5: AISES 27th Annual National
Conference: Pathways to Stronger Communities (Charlotte, NC)
Yale College Chapter will attend.
11/5: Henry
Roe Cloud Celebration
Events include: Panel Discussions on Native
Americans at Yale, an Alumni Gala, and the presentation of the HRC Award
Sponsored by the Native American
Cultural Center at Yale University, the Native American Yale Alumni
Association, and the Association of Native Americans at Yale.
11/10: Katherine
McCaffrey, Montclair State University, “Native
Americans in Latin America: Contexts for Genocide”
1:30-3:20 pm, ISPS Conference Room, 77 Prospect St.
Sponsored by Genocide Studies.
11/17: Jeffrey Ostler,
University of Oregon, “The
Question of Genocide in U.S. History, 1783-1890”
1:30-3:20 pm, ISPS Conference Room, 77 Prospect St.
Sponsored by Genocide Studies and the Lamar Center for the
Study of Frontiers and Borders.
11/ongoing: Native American Heritage
month events. Native film festival and residential
college dinner with invited Native speaker.
Other Fall ’05
Events
Master’s Tea on Environmental Justice
on Reservations.
Native American genocide/holocaust
forum. Sponsored by ANAAY and Yale Hillel.
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January 2006
1/25:
Reading by Debra Magpie Earling, award-winning author
of Perma Red (2002)
4:00 pm, Beinecke Library, 121 Wall St.
Native American
novelist Debra Magpie Earling's first novel, Perma Red, was among the most widely acclaimed novels of
2002. Earling was awarded the American Book Award,
the Western Writers Association Spur Award for Best Novel of the West, the
Mountain and Plains Bookseller Association Award, and a WILLA Literary Award.
In addition, Perma Red was chosen by Barnes and Noble
as part of its "Discover Great New Writers" series. Perma Red has been favorably compared to the work of Louise
Erdrich, Leslie Marmon Silko, and Sherman Alexie. Earling's short fiction has appeared in Ploughshares,
Northern Lights, Northeast Indian Quarterly, and anthologies including Circle
of Women, Talking Leaves: An Anthology of Contemporary Native American Short
Stories, The Last Best Place: A Montana Anthology, and Reinventing the Enemy's
Language.
A
reception will follow; this event is free and open to the public. For
additional information about the Yale Collection of American Literature Reading
Series please contact Nancy Kuhl at 432-2966 or
nancy.kuhl@yale.edu.
Sponsored by theYale Collection of American
Literature, Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript
Library.
February 2006
2/1: Yale Group for the Study of Native
America Open Meeting
5:00 pm, Lamar Center, Basement of Whitney
Humanities Center, 53 Wall St.
This is an
informal gathering for past, present, and future members of the group and we
warmly invite anyone interested in participating or simply learning more about
the organization to attend. The meeting will consist of a brief overview
of the group's past activities and present endeavors, as well as a
brainstorming session designed to gauge interest in future activities.
Graduate students, undergraduate students, faculty, staff, administrators,
alumni, and members of the community are all heartily encouraged to
attend. Please come and share your ideas and insights.
2/27: Jean O'Brien, University of Minnesota, "New England
Local Histories as Replacement Narratives"
4:30 pm, Room 119A, Hall of Graduate Studies, 320
York St.
This lecture is free and open to the public.
April 2006
4/7-9, 2006
Pathways 2006: Cultural Intersections
in Native North America www.yale.edu/ygsna/pathways
4/7- Keynote Speech: Philip Deloria (Dakota Sioux), University of Michigan
5:00pm, Whitney Humanities Center
Auditorium, 53 Wall St.
4/8- Panels: Invited Graduate
Student Speakers from the U.S. and Canada
8:30am-5:00pm, Room 211, Hall of
Graduate Studies, 320 York St.
Public Reception and Dinner
6:00pm-7:30pm, Beinecke
Rare Book and Manuscript Library, 121 Wall St.
4/9- Closing Roundtable &
Breakfast
8:30am-10:30am, Room 211, Hall of
Graduate Studies, 320 York St.
The goals
of this conference are: to provide a comfortable forum for graduate students
working at the intersection of American Indian or Alaska Native Studies and
other Ethnic and Area Studies, such as African American Studies, Asian American
Studies, and Latin American Studies, to share their work, and to foster
student-to-student and student-to-professional relationships by encouraging
networking and community-building for those working across traditional
disciplinary boundaries.
July 2006
7/7-11, 2006
Native American Graduate Horizons Program
Details TBA.