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Upcoming Events

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Meeting

Welcome Back & Mural Launch
Join the students, staff, and faculty of the American Indian and Indigenous Studies Program to start the spring semester and kickoff the mural project going on from January to March in Ganędagǫ: Hall by artist Erwin Printup (Gayogo̱hó:nǫɁ).
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Lecture

AIIS Speaker Series: Victims or Solutions? The Fight for Indigenous Stewardship and Leadership in Climate Action
Indigeneity means something different to each one of us as an Indigenous person. Our communities are diverse in practice, protocol, language, and the way we know the world around us. However, working on a global scale I've observed a common...
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Conference

75 Years of NYS Jurisdiction over the Haudenosaunee: When Will It End?
For 400 years, the Haudenosaunee (Six Nations Iroquois Confederacy) have interacted with New York officials over matters of war and peace, trade and commerce, and confiscation of Haudenosaunee lands and wealth. Throughout this long period, New...
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Lecture

AIIS Speaker Series: "We want justice from now on”: Chief Deskaheh vs. Truth and Reconciliation
In March 1925, Cayuga Chief and Haudenosaunee spokesman Deskaheh delivered a radio address in Rochester, NY that condemned Canada’s recent dismantling of the hereditary council at Six Nations of the Grand River, the last remaining traditional...
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Lecture

AIIS Speaker Series: Intactness/Fracture - Embodying Shard Knowledge
Santee Smith / Tekaronhiáhkhwa is a multidisciplinary artist from the Kahnyen’kehàka Nation, Six Nations. Premiering her inaugural work Kaha:wi in 2004, she then founded Kaha:wi Dance Theatre which has grown into an internationally renowned...
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