On October 12, the Department of Spanish and Portuguese will be hosting Photographer EdgarKanaykõ Xakriabá (Xakriabá People) to discuss photography as Indigenous Resistance. This is a part of a greater series: Identities in Flux in the Portuguese-Spanish World.
Time: 4 pm
Place: White Hall 112
On October 10, Amal is invited to a very special ceremony with the Mvskoke Nation and experiences a quiet moment of peace. They teach her about Mvskoke culture and its deep and ancient connection to their land. This event is in partnership with Chebon Kernell, Traditional Practitioner Mvskoke Nation. Click these link to learn more about This Ancient Land and Little Amal.
Time: 6:30 pm
Place: Brownwood Park Pavilion
On October 27, Emory University and the Muscogee leaders will once again be hosting the Muscogee Teach-In. Come and learn from Muscogee signers, storytellers, and artists as they lead culture labs, language learning, and a stomp dance. Link to register.
Time: 2:30pm – 5:00pm
Place: Emory Student Center, Multipurpose Rooms; Stomp Dance on McDonough Plaza
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)
