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Oct 16, 2020

Critical Indigenous Studies Initiative’s inaugural event
The American Studies Program’s Critical Indigenous Studies Initiative is holding its inaugural public event on October 22, 2020, 7pm-9pm EST:
We are on Indigenous Land: Re/claiming Native Spaces
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This virtual event brings together Indigenous community leaders for a discussion about the reclamation of Indigenous Ohlone and Wabanaki spaces. We will view three short films Beyond Recognition, i am ákʷitən, the medicine tree vessel that carries our relatives, and The Nibezun Project. Q&A discussion follows with Corrina Gould (Chochenyo and Karkin Ohlone) of the Sogorea Te’ Land Trust, Tim Shay (Penobscot) and Lilah Akins (Penobscot) of Nibezun.
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Beyond Recognition tells the inspiring story of women creating opportunities and organizing strategies to preserve Native cultures and homelands in a society bent on erasing them. Corrina Gould is the spokesperson for the confederated villages of Lisjan/Ohlone, and co-founder of the Sogorea Te’ Land Trust, and Indian People Organizing for Change (IPOC).
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i am ákʷitən, the medicine tree vessel that carries our relatives is an imaginative exploration of ancestral ties to Wabanaki lands and waters, collectively created by Lilah Akins, Devon Kelley-Yurdin, Emilia Dahlin, Cory Tamler, and Jennie Hahn.
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The Nibezun Project provides an introduction to Nibezun, a sacred gathering place of the Wabanaki on the Penobscot River.
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Sponsored by the Critical Indigenous Studies Initiative in American Studies, Women, Gender, and Sexuality Studies, Center for Arts and Humanities, Oak Institute, Anthropology, Art, Environmental Studies, and History.
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