Organized by the Denver Art Museum (DAM), Each/Other is the first exhibition to present together the work of two leading Indigenous contemporary artists whose processes focus on collaborative artmaking.
Be a part of it. Contribute to a monumental artwork by artists Marie Watt and Cannupa Hanska Luger.
Join us on the quad this November 13, 2020 for a socially distanced sewing circle. Embroider a message onto a bandana, which will be mailed to Denver where Watt and Hanska Luger will incorporate them into a large-scale sculpture for the exhibition.
All materials will be provided. Masks and social distancing are required.
The American Indian and Alaska Native (AI/AN) population is at significant risk of misidentification in national surveillance instruments. The implications of how race and ethnicity are tabulated affect (1) the accuracy and precision of health data and (2) public health planning and policy decisions. This study explored the impact of different tabulating strategies for race and ethnicity on the prevalence estimates, and precision of those estimates, for experiences with persistent feelings of sadness or hopelessness, suicidality, and violence victimization among AI/AN high school students.
Presenters: Sherry Everett Jones, Health Scientist, CDC/NCHHSTP, Division of Adolescent and School Health; and Delight E. Satter, Senior Health Scientist, CDC/CSTLTS, Office of Tribal Affairs and Strategic Alliances
11/19 * COVID-19: Experiences from Public Health – Seattle & King County’s Current EIS Officer
Zoom Event: Thursday, November 19, 2020, 1:00-2:00 pm EST
Presenter: Temet M. McMichael, EIS Officer, CDC/DDPHSS/CSELS/DSEPD. At a young age Temet developed a love and passion for science; pursuing his interests, he obtained his B.S. in biochemistry, PhD in viral immunology, and found himself in the midst of a pandemic as the EIS officer assigned to the Public Health Department in Seattle & King County. Join us for Temet’s exciting EIS journey which includes EVALI, Polio in West Africa, and lots of COVID-19.
Sunday, November 8, 2020 at 2:00 pm Eastern Live online Zoom discussion and reading. Registration required. Free. Hosted by: The Michael C. Carlos Museum.
An online discussion and play reading, in collaboration with the Decatur Book Festival, by Mary Kathryn Nagle (Cherokee Nation of Oklahoma), author of the play Sovereignty, about the Cherokee Nation’s legal fight for sovereignty and also violence against women.
Written by Mary Kathryn Nagle, lawyer, playwright, and direct descendant of nineteenth-century Cherokee leaders John Ridge and Major Ridge, Sovereig unfolds over two parallel timelines. In present-day Oklahoma, a young Cherokee lawyer, Sarah Ridge Polson, and her colleague Jim Ross defend the inherent jurisdiction of Cherokee Nation in the U.S. Supreme Court when a non-Indian defendant challenges the Nation’s authority to prosecute non-Indian perpetrators of domestic violence. Their collaboration is juxtaposed with scenes from 1835, when Cherokee Nation was eight hundred miles to the east in the southern Appalachians. That year, Sarah’s and Jim’s ancestors, historic Cherokee rivals, were bitterly divided over a proposed treaty with the administration of Andrew Jackson, the Treaty of New Echota, which led to the nation’s removal to Oklahoma on the infamous Trail of Tears.
Monday, October 12, 2020 at 4:00 pm Eastern. Live online Zoom panel discussion. Registration required. Free.
Creek Nation Council House, Okmulgee, Oklahoma
In celebration of Indigenous Peoples’ Day, Emory University Professor of English Craig Womack (Creek) chairs a panel discussion titled McGirt V. Oklahoma: Understanding the Implications of the Recent Supreme Court Decision Across Native America.
Sarah Deer (Creek), University of Kansas Department of Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies; Barbara Creel (Jemez Pueblo), University of New Mexico School of Law; and Andrew Adams III (Creek), Muscogee Creek Nation Supreme Court; and Professor Womack will explore the implications of the decision regarding the Creek Nation for Oklahoma tribal nations and other parts of Indian Country.
This lecture is made possible through the generous financial support of the Hightower Lecture Fund and is co-sponsored by the Native American and Indigenous Students Initiative, the Michael C. Carlos Museum, and the School of Law Health Law, Policy & Ethics Project.
Celebrate Indigenous Peoples Day on Decatur Square Sunday 10/11 at 6 pm Eastern, and learn more about the initiative calling for the removal of the 1836 “Indian Wars” cannon.
Professor Claudio Saunt, Richard B. Russell Professor in American History; Co-Director, Center for Virtual History; Associate Director, Institute of Native American Studies, University of Georgia
In May 1830, the United States formally launched a policy to expel Native Americans from the East to territories west of the Mississippi River. Justified as a humanitarian enterprise, the undertaking was to be systematic and rational, overseen by Washington’s small but growing bureaucracy. But as the policy unfolded over the next decade, thousands of Native Americans died under the federal government’s auspices, and thousands of others lost their possessions and homelands in an orgy of fraud, intimidation, and violence.
Claudio Saunt, Richard B. Russell Professor in American History at the University of Georgia, discusses his new book Unworthy Republic: The Dispossession of Native Americans and the Road to Indian Territory, in which he explores how expulsion became national policy and describes the chaotic and deadly results of the operation to deport 80,000 men, women, and children in order to secure new lands for the expansion of slavery and to consolidate the power of the southern states.
In telling this gripping story, Saunt shows how the politics and economics of white supremacy lay at the heart of the expulsion of Native Americans; how corruption, greed, and administrative indifference and incompetence contributed to the debacle of its implementation; and how the consequences still resonate today.
“One of the most important books published on U.S. history in recent years and should be required reading for all Americans. — Sven Beckert, Laird Bell Professor of History, Harvard University, author ofEmpire of Cotton
“Unworthy Republic offers a much-needed corrective to the American canon, showing how a heavy-handed president, a deadlocked Congress, and a lust for profit combined to construct a shameful national legacy. This book is timely, provocative, heart-wrenching, and original―a riveting story that invites us all to reflect on how we got where we are today.” — Elizabeth Fenn, Distinguished Professor, University of Colorado Boulder
To purchase a copy of Unworthy Republic, email the Carlos Museum Bookshop at mburell [at] emory [dot] edu. Please include your name and phone number and let us know if you would like the order shipped to you or if you would like to arrange for curbside pickup outside the museum.
This program is made possible through the generous support of the Grace Welch Blanton Lecture Fund.
Monday, September 28, 2020 at 12:00 noon Live online Zoom lecture. Registration required. Free.
Presenter: Dr. Maylei Blackwell, Associate Professor in the César E. Chávez Department of Chicana/o Studies and Women’s Studies Department, and affiliated faculty in the American Indian Studies and Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender Studies, UCLA.
Sponsored by: James Weldon Johnson Institute for the Study of Race and Difference Race & Difference Colloquium Series
The Cherokee have a rich artistic heritage, stretching back centuries. These traditions were carried on the Trail of Tears, these traditions continued in Indian Territory. In a lecture titled “Cherokee Art: Past, Present, and Future,” Jace Weaver, Franklin Professor of Native American Studies and Director of the Institute of Native American Studies at the University of Georgia, will examine the enduring legacy of Cherokee art, focusing especially on masks and basketry.
This lecture is made possible through the generous support of the Grace Welch Blanton Lecture Fund. It is free and open to the public.
