{"id":147,"date":"2019-09-19T19:53:42","date_gmt":"2019-09-19T19:53:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.trincoll.edu\/indigenous-studies\/?page_id=147"},"modified":"2025-12-04T19:07:53","modified_gmt":"2025-12-04T19:07:53","slug":"events","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.trincoll.edu\/indigenous-studies\/events\/","title":{"rendered":"Events"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2>Upcoming Events<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>Spring 2026 events forthcoming.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2>Selected Past Events Related to Indigenous Studies<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>Indigenous Studies Open House, with lunch provided by Sly Fox Den and special guest Jade Galvin in conversation with Cella Huang and Chenille Jake, November 6, 2025.<\/li>\n<li>Saukiog Harvest Festival, Keney Sustainability Project, organized by the Saukiog Intertribal Council, with numerous community sponsors, October 25, 2025.<\/li>\n<li>The three interrelated events with the Yootay Singers, based at the Mashantucket Pequot nation, including a panel on &#8220;Cultural Awareness and the Next Generation: An Intertribal Conversation,&#8221; with planning work by Dora Hast, Chenille Jake, and Tom Wickman, and \u00a0support from History, Music, American Studies, Center for Caribbean Studies, the Dean of Faculty&#8217;s office, and the President&#8217;s Office, September 24, 2025.<\/li>\n<li>Diego Tovar (Rachel Carson Council) spoke about the Rachel Carson Council and his environmental justice work with the members of the Navajo Nation. Co-sponsored by ENVS, Dean of Faculty Office, Rachel Carson Council. Event planning by Professor Amber Pitt and ENVS colleagues, September 18, 2025.<\/li>\n<li>Three events linked to Professor Giancarlo Rolando\u2019s ongoing collaboration with America Cumapa and Santiago Belisario (Huni Kuin) and their extended visit to Trinity, spring 2025, including Prof. Rolando&#8217;s lecture, <em>Singing, Dancing, Feasting, and Dreaming: Indigenous Amazonian Lessons to (Hopefully) Postpone the End of the World, <\/em>March 31, 2025, the annual Patricia C. and Charles H. McGill III &#8217;63 Distinguished Lecture in International Studies, organized by INTS faculty including program director Professor Seth Markle.<\/li>\n<li>A film screening of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.badriverfilm.com\/\">Bad River<\/a>, about the Wisconsin-based Bad River Band and their enduring struggle for sovereignty, including against the threats to their lands and to Lake Superior posed by the Line 5 oil pipeline, operated by the multinational Enbridge Energy, followed by discussion led by Professors Diana Aldrete and Stefanie Chambers, March 12, 2025. Planning work by Profs. Aldrete and Chambers, with co-sponsorships from POLS and HRST.<\/li>\n<li>Professor Dora Hast lecture on <em>The Gombeys in Bermuda, <\/em>a collaborative book project engaging with a centuries-long music and dance tradition with African, Caribbean, and Native American influences (including ties to Pequot, Wampanoag and other Native nations of the Northeast). Hosted by the Center for Caribbean Studies. March 13, 2025.<\/li>\n<li>Marcy Norton, author of <em>The Tame and the Wild: People and Animals after<\/em> <em>1492<\/em>, History department&#8217;s Mead lecture, thanks to planning work by Professor Clark Alejandrino, Kathleen Kete, Tom Wickman, and other members of the History department, Feb. 27, 2025.<\/li>\n<li>Deborah Jackson Taffa (Quechan (Yuma) Nation and Laguna Pueblo), author of <em>Whiskey Tender<\/em>, A.K. Smith Reading Series, Tu., Nov. 12, 2024, 4:30 pm, Smith House, thanks to planning work by Professors Catina Bacote, Ciaran Berry, and Ethan Rutherford.<\/li>\n<li>\u00a0MASS MoCA trip, North Adams, MA, led by Professor Lynn Sullivan, to see the exhibition <em>Jeffrey Gibson: POWER FULL BECAUSE WE&#8217;RE DIFFERENT,<\/em>\u00a0Nov. 9, 2024.<\/li>\n<li>Saukiog Harvest Festival, Saturday, Keney Park Sustainability Project, 183 Windsor Avenue, Windsor, organized by members of greater Hartford&#8217;s Indigenous community in collaboration with Hartford Public Library and other partners and co-sponsors, October 12, 2024.<\/li>\n<li>Yootay Singers, \u00a0Mashantucket Pequot nation, organized by Professor Dora Hast, Oct. 3, 2024.<\/li>\n<li>Group visit to the New Britain Museum of American Art, led by Professor Lynn Sullivan, to see the exhibition, <em>The Land Carries Our Ancestors: Contemporary Art by Native Americans<\/em>, Sept. 14, 2024.<\/li>\n<li>Connor Chee (Din\u00e9), composer and pianist, discussion and performance, organized by Chenille Jake (Din\u00e9, \u201824), April 11, 2024.<\/li>\n<li>\u201cThe Jingle Dress Project: Native Women in Leadership,\u201d panel discussion moderated by Chenille Jake (&#8217;24), photography by Eugene Tapahe, and dance performance by Dion and Erin Tapahe, introduced by Kim O&#8217;Brien, WGRAC, Queer Resource Center, March 5, 2024.<\/li>\n<li>\u201cSkoden: The Rise of Native American Pop Culture,\u201d Sebastian Ebarb &#8217;06 (Choctaw-Apache Band of Ebarb), March 5, 2024, planned by Professor Lynn Sullivan in association with the Trinity Arts Initiative.<\/li>\n<li>Virtual Screening of short documentary film by Mohawk artist and water protection activist Layla Staats, November 30, 2023, featuring a panel with Chenille Jake (&#8217;24), Clara Sams (&#8217;26), and Mariana Cournoyer (&#8217;24), organized by Professor Diana Aldrete, co-sponsored by Human Rights and the Office of Multicultural Affairs.<\/li>\n<li>The Hartford\/Saukiog Harvest Festival, EHI Equestrian &amp; Therapeutic Center, 337 Vine Street, Hartford, October 14, 2023, featured a panel with Chenille Jake (&#8217;23) and musical performance by Lee Mixashawn Rozie (&#8217;12), among <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.hplct.org\/?p=3012\">many others<\/a>. The event was organized by a Hartford-based planning committee in collaboration with Hartford Public Library and many co-sponsors and has been held since 2019.<\/li>\n<li>\u201cThe Design of Black and Native Liberation, with Sebastian Ebarb &#8217;06,\u201d February 27, 2023, co-sponsored by the Office of Multicultural Affairs and the History department, as part of Black History Month.<\/li>\n<li>\u201cNative Americans Making Film and TV,\u201d trailer screening and conversation led by Chenille Jake (Din\u00e9, class of 2024), November 30, 2022, about Native American screenwriters, showrunners, directors, actors, and crew members making film and TV in 2022 and beyond, as well as a meal\u00a0provided by Wampanoag chef Sherry Pocknett&#8217;s Sly Fox Den restaurant, and comments by Pocknett&#8217;s daughter and partner in the business, Jade Galvin.<\/li>\n<li>\u201cMapping My Mother\u2019s Nations,\u201d lecture by Professor Mary McNeil (Mashpee Wampanoag), Ann Plato Fellow, History Department, with reception before, and dinner afterward, April 26, 2022. Building upon Indigenous geographer and literary scholar Mishauna Goeman\u2019s concept of \u201cremapping,\u201d the talk utilized family history to trace Afro-Indigenous identity, migration, and belonging in Massachusetts during the Black Power\/ Red Power era.<\/li>\n<li>\u201cNative American and Indigenous Studies at Trinity: A Conversation and Shared Meal,\u201d November 18, 2021, which featured a panel conversation about an online <a href=\"https:\/\/courseguides.trincoll.edu\/National_Indigenous_Peoples_Month\">Native American and Indigenous Studies research guide<\/a>\u00a0and a meal catered by Sly Fox Den, an Indigenous catering and food education business founded by Wampanoag chef Sherry Pocknett. The panel featured Chenille Jake (Din\u00e9, class of 2024); Mary McNeil (Mashpee Wampanoag), Ann Plato fellow in History; Thomas Wickman, associate professor of History and American Studies; Cait Kennedy, Research, Technology and Outreach Librarian; and Yoli Bergstrom-Lynch, research librarian.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Reading Group featured book and author visits:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Spring 2020 Shannon Speed (Chickasaw),\u00a0<em>Incarcerated Stories: Indigenous Women Migrants and Violence in the Settler-Capitalist State\u00a0<\/em><\/li>\n<li>Fall 2019 Marisol de la Cadena, <em>Earth Beings: Ecologies of Practice across Andean Worlds<\/em><\/li>\n<li>Spring 2019 Ellen Cushman (Cherokee), <em>The Cherokee Syllabary: Writing the People\u2019s Perseverance\u00a0<\/em>(visit April 5, 2019)<\/li>\n<li>Fall 2018 K\u0113haulani Kauanui (Kanaka Maoli), <em>Paradoxes of Hawaiian Sovereignty: Land, Sex, and the Colonial Politics of State Nationalism\u00a0<\/em>(visit December 12, 2018)<\/li>\n<li>Spring 2018 Lisa Brooks (Abenaki), <em>Our Beloved Kin: A New History of King Philip\u2019s War\u00a0<\/em>(visit March 27, 2018)<\/li>\n<li>Fall 2017 Sandy Grande (Quechua), <em>Red Pedagogy: Native American Social and Political Thought\u00a0<\/em>(visit December 12, 2017)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Additional visiting writers and scholars:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Kiara Vigil (Dakota\/Apache), cultural and intellectual historian (February 13, 2020)<\/li>\n<li>Natalie Diaz (Mojave), poet and language activist (Fall 2019)<\/li>\n<li>Hidden Literacies Symposium (including presentations by Ellen Cushman [Cherokee], Margaret Noodin [Anishinaabe], Phillip Round, Caroline Wigginton, Kelly Wisecup) (April 5, 2019)<\/li>\n<li>Ned Blackhawk (Shoshone), historian (Fall 2014)<\/li>\n<li>Cheryl Savageau (Abenaki), poet (Spring 2014)<\/li>\n<li>Coll Thrush, historian (Spring 2014)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Other Campus Events:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Jos\u00e9 Ginocchio Moraiz and Gabriel R. Sorondo Guirola, \u201cThe Owners, the Keepers, and the Masters: A documentary to raise awareness and promote justice for the human rights of indigenous communities in Salta, Argentina,\u201d November 16, 2021, organized by the Center for Urban and Global Studies<\/li>\n<li>Watkinson Library Indigenous Materials reception, Spring 2019<\/li>\n<li>Blanket Exercise, Akomawt Educational Initiative, led by endawnis Spears and Chris Newell, organized by S.A.I.L. director Nikia Bryant, December 4, 2018<\/li>\n<li>\u201cThis Native Place: Joseph Johnson and the Writerly World of 18<sup>th<\/sup>-Century Indigenous Connecticut\u201d Hilary Wyss, Inaugural talk for the Allan K. Smith and Gwendolyn Miles Smith Professor of English, April 17, 2018<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Upcoming Events Spring 2026 events forthcoming. 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