On September 25, the American Studies Department of Kennesaw State University will be hosting Dakota author Mona Susan Power as she present her new novel A Council of Dolls. To participate in the book club and receive a free copy of A Council of Dolls, please RSVP to Professor Miriam Brown Spiers: mspiers1 [at] kennesaw [dot] edu. Click here to see the flyer: Book Club & Lecture.

Time and Place:

Book Club: 10:30 am – 12 pm; Room SO 2033

Lecture: 2 – 3:30 pm; Room SO 2038

On September 21, Editor-in-Chief Jourdan Bennett-Begaye (Diné) will be guest lecturing at the Oxford Road Building. Click here to view the flyer: Jourdan Bennett-Begaye Guest Lecture Flyer. Link to register for the event: registration form.

Time: 2:00 to 3:15 pm

Place: Presentation Room of the Oxford Road Building

On September 20, the Department of History will be hosting the Since Time Immemorial: Native Custom and Law in Colonial Mexico symposium led by Professor Yanna Hannakakis and paneled by Dr. María Carrión and Dr. Emil’ Keme. Reception will be held after the symposium. Click here to view the flyer: Yannakakis Symposium.

Time: 5 – 6:30 pm

Place: 360 Atwood Chemistry Building

Dr. María Carrión: Professor of Religion and Comparative Literature, Department of Religion, Emory University

Dr. Emil’ Keme: Professor of English and Indigenous Studies, Department of English, Emory University

On September 8, the Muscogee Nation and Historic Adair Park will celebrate the grand opening of Muscogee Park.

Click here to view the full-sized flyer: Muscogee Park Opening Flier.

Time: 10 am – 12 pm

Place: 841 Brookline St Sw, Atlanta, GA 30310

On September 16 and 17, the Ocmulgee Mounds Association will be holding the Ocmulgee Indigenous Celebration at the Ocmulgee Mounds National Historical Park. For more information, click here: Ocmulgee Indigenous Celebration.

Time: 10 am – 5 pm

Place: Ocmulgee Mounds National Historical Park

From Atlanta and want to share your memories of place? Interested in the connection between Atlanta’s history and current environmental health? Want to participate in a public art project and learn how to make paint from your own backyard?

Between May 2 and 13, the Science Gallery Atlanta is inviting community members to participate in a series of 3 workshops and a community art project to explore more about Atlanta. Come tell your story!

This event is facilitated by Heather Bird Harris (an Atlanta-based environmental artist and history educator) and features:

Dr. Eri Saikawa Associate Professor, Winship Distinguished Research Professor, Emory University, Department of Environmental Sciences

Dr. Loren Michael Mortimer Provost’s Postdoctoral Fellow in Native North American History, Emory University, Department of History

Time (Workshop):

Tue May 2, 6pm-8pm

Mon May 8, 6pm-8pm

Tue May 9, 6pm-8pm

Time (Community Art Project): Sat May 13, 2pm-5pm

Place: Piedmont Park

On April 13, the Carlos Museum will be hosting a virtual lecture on the life and work of T. C. Cannon. Click here to register for the event and visit the Carlos Museum to view the painting.

“In celebration of the recent installation of the painting Grandmother Gestating Father and the Washita River Runs Ribbon-Like, Karen Kramer, Stuart W. and Elizabeth F. Pratt Curator of Native American and Oceanic Art and Culture and Director of the Native American Fellowship Program of the Peabody Essex Museum, will trace the art, life, and legacy of painter, poet, musician, and veteran T.C. Cannon (Kiowa/Caddo, 1946–1978). In a lecture titled “At the Edge of America: The Stunning Art and Life of T. C. Cannon,” Kramer will explore Cannon’s visual language and the key ideas he engaged over his twenty-year career, including dispossession, war, gender and power, and survivance. Cannon’s work also reveals the histories and politics of Native-US relations in the 19th and 20th centuries, as well as connections to American art and music of the 1960s–70s and Western art writ large.”

Time: 7:30 pm to 8:30 pm

Place: Zoom (To register)

On May 4, Boston University will be hosting a one-day symposium featuring the works of emerging scholars in Native American and Indigenous Studies.

“Indigenous artists, writers, activists, and scholars working in a variety of fields, periods, and across media, have called for a reevaluation of traditional Western epistemologies that privilege textual evidence as the only reliable resource for creating historical narratives. This one-day symposium showcases scholars whose work engages Indigenous modes of knowledge production and might incorporate textual archives but also artifacts, oral traditions, and non-alphabetic material texts. Relatedly, it aims to further reflection and discussion among attendees upon the methods, resources, and aesthetic practices we use to tell stories about the past. This symposium will begin with a welcome from jessie little doe baird (Mashpee Wampanoag), Wôpanâak Language Reclamation Project Co Founder and Lead Linguist.”

Jessica Locklear, a PhD student of Emory University and an enrolled member of the Lumbee Tribe of North Carolina, is one of the featured emerging scholars during the symposium.

Registration is required; click here to more about and register for the event.

Time: 10:00 am to 5:00 pm

Place: Metcaff Trustee Center Ballroom | One Silber Way, Room 922 and by Zoom

On April 6, the ECLC Spring 2023 Antiracism Reading Group will be discussing “An Indigenous Pedagogy for Decolonization” by Karen Wisselink and “Indigenous Languages Through a Reclamation Lens” by Wesley Leonard.

In interested in joining the discussion, please email: Christine Ristaino (cristai [at] emory [dot] edu) or Sandra Descourtis (sdescourtis [at] emory [dot] edu).

Time: 1:00 pm

Place: Link- https://emory.zoom.us/my/ristainosroom  Password- LETTERS

On April 10, guest lecturer Dr. Wesley Leonard, the Associate Professor of Ethnic Studies UC Riverside and co-chair of Natives4Linguistics, will host a lecture on Indigenous language reclamation and language works. This event is sponsored by the Emory College Language Center (ECLC) and the Native American and Indigenous Studies Initiative (NAISI). Click here to learn more about Natives4Linguistics. Click here read more about the event.

Time: 4:00 pm

Place: Oxford Road Building Presentation Room (1390 Oxford Road, Atlanta GA, 30022 Level 3)

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