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AIIS 6010 Speaker Series

The American Indian and Indigenous Studies Speaker Series situates current issues within the field of Native American and Indigenous Studies. It is a Graduate-level course that introduces students to ongoing research in the field of American Indian and Indigenous Studies in a proseminar/colloquium format.

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Bruno Seraphin

Cornell University Ph.D. Candidate, Sociocultural Anthropology

Fires Beyond Crisis: Karuk Cultural Burners and Climate Change
September 2, 2022 | 12:25PM EST

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Dr. Tyson Yunkaporta

Apalech Clan
Senior Lecturer at Deakin University, Melbourne, AUS

The Master's Nephew's House - Decolonization 2.0
September 23, 2022 | 12:25PM EST

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Dr. Mishuana Goeman

Tonawanda Band of Seneca
Professor and Chair of Indigenous Studies at the University at Buffalo

Revisioning and Unsettling Colonial Enclosure
September 30, 2022 | 12:25PM EST

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Santee Smith/Tekaronhiáhkhwa

Kahnyen'kehàka (Mohawk)
Multidisciplinary Artist and Chancellor of McMaster University

Intactness/Fracture - Embodying Shard Knowledge
October 28, 2022 | 12:25PM EST

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Dr. Richard Monture

Kahnyen'kehàka (Mohawk)
Associate Professor, McMaster University

"We want justice from now on”: Chief Deskaheh versus Truth and Reconciliation
November 18, 2022 | 12:25PM EST

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Dr. Michael Charles

Diné, citizen of the Navajo Nation
Provost’s New Faculty Fellow with the Department of Biological and Environmental Engineering, Cornell University

Victims or Solutions? The Fight for Indigenous Stewardship and Leadership in Climate Action
December 2, 2022 | 12:25PM EST

Recorded Lectures for 2022 Speaker Series

American Indian and Indigenous Studies Speaker Series
Fall 2021

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Past Speaker Series