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On November 5, the Euchee Butter Farm will be hosting educational pop-ups at Emory.

Learn more about the Euchee Butterfly Farm here: HOME | Euchee Butterfly

Time & Place:

11:30-12:30 @ Gardens next to Kaldi’s Depot

1:45pm – 2:45pm @ Gardens next to Rita Anne Rollins Building

The Center for Native American and Indigenous Studies warmly invite you to attend the 4^th Annual Muscogee Teach-in on Thursday, October 30th at 2:30PM. We will gather in the Emory Student Center and welcome Secretary of Culture & Humanities RaeLynn Butler, representatives from the Muscogee Language Preservation Program, and the Helvpe Ceremonial grounds led by Chebon Kernell will conclude the program. We look forward to seeing you later this month.

Sponsored by Emory Native American and Indigenous Studies, Office of the Provost, Emory College of Arts and Sciences, James Weldon Johnson Institute, and the Emory University Chaplaincy.

Registration details at Emory Muscogee Teach-in | Emory University | Atlanta GA

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Time: 2:30-5:30 pm

Place: Emory Student Center, Multipurpose Rooms

Emily Bowen Cohen, author of the graphic novel, Two Tribes shares stories that inspired the book. From a childhood in Oklahoma to an adolescence in New Jersey, Emily experienced challenges to both her identities. Thanks to a family reunion with her Muscogee family, Emily learned where she belonged: a member of two tribes with similarities and differences that make her wholly who she is.

This event is hosted and sponsored by Emory’s Center for Native American and Indigenous Studies and the Tam Institute for Jewish Studies with additional support from the Hightower Fund, Emory Libraries, the Fox Center for Humanistic Inquiry, the Department of English, the Writing Program, the Creative Writing Program, and the Michael C. Carlos Museum.

Speaker Bio: Emily Bowen Cohen is an award-winning author and engaging public speaker known for powerful storytelling that explores complex identities. She is Jewish and a member of the Muscogee (Creek) Nation, and she creates comics that explore cultural intersectionality. Her debut graphic novel Two Tribes was published by HarperCollins’s Native-focused imprint, Heartdrum, in 2023. Registration is free and public.

Learn more about Emily at https://authorsunbound.com/emily-bowen-cohen/

Learn more about the event here: Two Tribes

Time: 4:00 – 5:00pm

Place: The Jones Room (Level 3) of the Robert W. Woodruff Library

Another year has come to an end and another group of students will be bidding Emory fare well as they transition to their next steps in life. Join NAIS in celebrating their journeys through Emory’s college and the legacy they leave behind in NAIS’s third annual Celebration of Graduates! Lunch will be held afterwards in Brooks Commons (Cannon Chapel).

Time: 11am-1pm

Place: Cannon Chapel

The Etowah site today is a state park, but 650 years ago it was an Indigenous city with impressive monuments and beautiful art. Adam King, research associate professor at the South Carolina Institute for Archaeology and Anthropology at the University of South Carolina, will reconstruct the city’s 500-year history using the imagery its inhabitants created: motifs on pottery, designs on decorated shell and copper, and the arrangement of buildings and monuments. Unlike the usual stuff of archaeology that tells us what people did, imagery is intentionally created to communicate ideas. In this talk anchored in imagery, King explores what Etowah’s inhabitants understood about themselves and their city. King will pull from the exhibition This Land Calls Us Home, on view at the Schatten Gallery, illustrating how ancient images continue to communicate about Indigenous belief, identity, and place.

This lecture is made possible through the generous support of the Grace Welch Blanton Lecture Fund. It is free and open to the public, and registration is required.

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Time: 6:30-7:30pm

Place: Ackerman Hall, Carlos Museum

Colorful works by Indigenous artists await Atlanta audiences and the Emory community with the new Emory Libraries exhibition “This Land Calls Us Home: Indigenous Relationships with Southeastern Homelands.” The exhibition, which opened Jan. 27 in the Schatten Gallery on Level 3 of Emory’s Robert W. Woodruff Library, features the work of 25 contemporary Native American artists and designers. More than 50 pieces are on display that express Southeastern Indigenous heritage, including textiles, photographs, paintings, intricate woven baskets and more. The exhibit is free and open to the public.

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The Sounding Spirit Singing School will be held on April 4 and 5, 2025, at the Pitts Theology Library at Emory University. A celebration of the Sounding Spirit Digital Library, the Singing School will feature volumes from this groundbreaking collection of over 1,250 volumes of southern sacred vernacular song published between 1850 and 1925. The convening takes inspiration from its namesake, the singing school. Since the eighteenth century, singing schools have served communities and congregations exploring music pedagogy and practice independent of mainstream educational contexts. Often taught by a visiting instructor, singing schools teach people how to sing together while also serving as important social events for wide-ranging communities. The Sounding Spirit Singing School embraces these historical legacies and invites singers, scholars, and practitioners to learn and sing sacred music together.

The following schedule for the Spring 2025 Sounding Spirit Singing School includes workshops, community singing sessions, scholarly roundtables, and food and fellowship in the spirit of the “dinner on the grounds” tradition. Local singers, worshippers, practitioners, and scholars are welcome at all singing school sessions and evening singings listed in the Public Events section below. Additional workshops and sessions are closed to the public and listed in the full schedule. We hope to see you at one of our public-facing events in April!

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Time: 8:30 – 10:30 am

Place: Pitts Theology Library

On April 1, Emory will be screening the short film “Lumbeeland,” with special guest Film Director Montana Cypress (Miccosukee Tribe of Indians of Florida). Dr. Malinda Maynor Lowery (Lumbee Tribe of North Carolina) wrote and executive produced Lumbeeland, which is inspired by her research into the drug economy for her second book and her lifetime living and working in her community. Director Montana Cypress and Dr. Lowery will also screen two of Montana’s award-winning short films, The Red Orchid (the first film produced in the Miccosukee language) and An Ode to Leviticus (starting legendary actors Gary Farmer and Tantoo Cardinal), and have a discussion about community-driven filmmaking and authentic portrayals of Native people in the southeast. This event is held in collaboration with Agnes Scott College.

Time: Tuesday, April 1 at 6:00 pm

Place: Oxford Road Building Presentation Room