Native American & Indigenous Studies at Penn
Contemporary flags contributed by Native American nations, at the Mashantucket Pequot Museum, Ledyard, CT.
Past Events
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Indigenous Knowledge Systems
April 17, 2019
In April 2016, LaDonna Brave Bull Allard established the first resistance camp to the Dakota Access Pipeline on her family’s land along the Cannonball River at Standing Rock. The movement known as #NoDAPL became a symbol of indigenous resilience and unity worldwide. Evening talk by Allard, with opening remarks by Curtis Zunigha, Director of Cultural Resources, Delaware Tribe of Indians in Oklahoma, and Co-Founder and Co-Director of the Lenape Center.
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Penn and Slavery
April 4, 2019 to April 5, 2019
Symposium co-hosted by the Penn & Slavery Project and the Program on Race, Science & Society (housed in the Center for Africana Studies) with support from the Office of the Provost, the Kislak Center for Special Collections, Rare Books and Manuscripts, the University of Pennsylvania Libraries, the Penn Medicine Office of Inclusion and Diversity, and the McNeil Center for Early American Studies. Held on the 400th anniversary of the arrival of the first enslaved Africans to British North America, this symposium affirms Penn’s commitment to critically investigating and engaging with the history of slavery.
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Land Acknowledgements at Penn
Acknowledgement of Native Languages, territories, and treaties through Land Acknowledgements shape identites, experience, and conversations. Land acknowledgements are not simple pieces of information but have emotional and political impact. At Penn, students see a Land Acknowledgement and learn about the Native history of this region with a Land Acknowledgement web page on the "Compass" website which provides orientation to campus and the curriclulum. A similar Land Acknowledgement for the Penn Campus and suggestions for responses is provided for the wider campus community by the Office for Restorative Practices Restorative Practices@Penn
The map of our region was provided by Native Land Digital, a webste and app that lets users know the Native heritage and treaty rights of any area where they might be in the Americas, the Pacific, and parts of Africa.