Tag: Guest speaker

Cherokee novelist and winner of this year's PEN Hemingway First Novel Prize, Oscar Hokeah will discuss his novel, Calling for a Blanket Dance. Hokeah is a regionalist Native American writer of literary fiction, interested in capturing intertribal, transnational, and multicultural aspects within two tribally specific communities: Tahlequah and Lawton, Oklahoma. He holds a BFA in Creative Writing from the Institute of American Indian Arts (IAIA),…

Join us for "Black Slavery, Native Nations, and the Path to Reconciliation", presented by Alaina E. Roberts from the University of Pittsburgh.  Roberts is the author of "I've Been Here All the While: Black Freedom on Native Land" and she works as an associate professor teaching classes like "Natives and Newcomers: Multicultural Encounters in North" and "Public Narratives: Monuments, Cultural Centers, and Museums as Sites of Contestation".…

Join us for an exciting event featuring photographer and Oklahoma native, Rahim Fortune  who will be sharing his insights on "Storytelling & Visual Art: On Collaborative Documentary."  Fortune will present a lecture, "Complex interiority: New Visions of the South," on October 17 at 5 p.m. at the Lamar Dodd School of Art in room S151 as part of the Visiting Artist and Scholar Lecture series held by the Lamar Dodd School of Art.…

Join us for a talk and discussion on being a Native ally sponsored by UGA's Native American Student Association and the Institute of Native American Studies. Being an ally of Native peoples takes more than just being interested in Native American people, more than just being a friend to Native peoples, and more than simply supporting Native activism and tribal sovereignty. Dr. James A. Owen, historian and Assistant Director of UGA's Institute of…

Indigenous Guale Indians first greeted Jesuit missionaries to the Georgia coast in 1566, but their missionary effort there was spectacularly unsuccessful. Franciscans arrived a decade later and worked with Guale leaders to establish Mission Santa Catalina as Spain’s northern outpost along the eastern seaboard. The mission was overrun and destroyed in 1680 by raiders from South Carolina. For three centuries, Georgians searched unsuccessfully for…

Federico Sartori holds a PhD. in History from the National University of Córdoba, Argentina. His research focuses on the history of Colonial Latin America and particularly on the history of the Inquisition and the Jesuit Order in the Viceroyalty of Peru during the 16th and 17th centuries. Currently, he teaches history at the Colegio de Monserrat, at the National University of Córdoba and is the director of the Historical Archive of that…

  Hall of Fame Broadcaster JOCELYN DORSEY Local Activist BENJAMIN EARLEY to Host April 13 Film Event at The King Center  6:30 pm Reception 7:15 pm Film Screening   Yolanda D. King Theatre for Performing Arts 449 Auburn Avenue NE Atlanta, GA 30312   REGISTER HERE  Jocelyn Dorsey is one of Atlanta’s treasures. She was Atlanta’s first African-American anchor at WSB-TV (Channel 2), where she won countless awards…

Dr. Natalie M. Welch (she/her) is an assistant professor at Seattle University teaching marketing and working in the MBA in Sport and Entertainment Management program. She is an enrolled member of the Eastern Band of Cherokee Indians and grew up in Cherokee, North Carolina. She is an alumnus of the University of Tennessee (B.S. and PhD) and the University of Central Florida DeVos Sport Business Management…

Event Sponsored by Gable Chair Professor of History James F. Brooks, Avid Bookshop and INAS Poetry Selection: Mangled, Letters, and the Target Girl LOCATION  Old Fire Hall #2: 489 Prince Ave., Athens, GA 30601 March 2nd, 5pm A citizen of the Cherokee Nation of Oklahoma, Santee Frazier earned a BFA from the Institute of American Indian Arts and an MFA from Syracuse University. His first collection of poems, Dark Thirty (2009), was…

UGA's Native American Student Association Presents! Imagined Indian: Native Stereotyping in Society Thursday, February 23 5:30-7:30 PM Tate Intersection  Free food will be provided! All are welcome to join us in this great discussion of Native American Representation! We want to create a judgment-free learning environment so the public can engage in critical conversation about Native Identity and Stereotypes!