American Indian and Indigenous Studies Speaker Series, Fall 2026

Speakers & Dates

Location: Caldwell Hall 400, 4th floor
Time: 2:55-4:10 p.m.

Tuesday, September 15

• Kristi Leora Gansworth Ph.D. / Anishinabe-kwe / Vassar College
  Indigenous Environmental Governance and Our Responsibilities

Wednesday, September 23

• Eric Gansworth / Onondaga / Canisius University
  Reading: Purple, Blue, Red, White: Suspended Between the Two Rows

Monday, September 28

• Mariaelena Huambachano Ph.D. / Quechua / Syracuse University
  Recovering Our Ancestral Foodways: Indigenous Traditions as a Recipe for Living Well

Monday, October 5

• Noah Mapes ABD, Cornell University / Descendant of the Odaawaa-Zaaga’iganiing / Lac Courte Oreilles Band of Lake Superior Ojibwe
  Materializing Relationality: The Aesthetic Intervention of Non-Human Beings in Anishinaabe Diplomacy

Thursday, October 22

• Layli Long Soldier / Lakota
  Zalaznick Reading / Klarman Hall, Rhodes-Rawling Auditorium / 5:00 p.m.

Monday, November 2

• Raven Chacon / Diné (Navajo) Composer, performance artist, and installation artist
  Tiguex, for the entire city of Albuquerque (2025)

Monday, November 9

• Leonard Mukosi S.J.D. / Postdoctoral Fellow, Cornell University / Center for Racial Justice and Equitable Futures
  Decolonizing Indigenous-State Criminal Justice Relations in Settler-Colonial Contexts

Monday, November 16

• Jason Corwin Ph.D. / Seneca / University at Buffalo
  Indigenous Water Empowerment: A Decade After Standing Rock

   

Any questions: Jolene K. Rickard, Ph.D. / Associate Professor / History of Art and Visual Studies, Art and American Indian and Indigenous Studies Program jkr33 [at] cornell.edu (jkr33[at]cornell[dot]edu)

Land Acknowledgment

Cornell University is located on the traditional homelands of the Gayogohó:no’ (the Cayuga Nation). The Gayogohó:no’ are members of the Haudenosaunee Confederacy, an alliance of six sovereign Nations with a historic and contemporary presence on this land. The Confederacy precedes the establishment of Cornell University, New York State, and the United States of America. We acknowledge the painful history of Gayogohó:no’ dispossession, and honor the ongoing connection of Gayogohó:no’ people, past and present, to these lands and waters.

This land acknowledgment has been reviewed and approved by the traditional Gayogohó:no’ leadership.

In addition to the Gayogohó:no’ land acknowledgment but separate from it, the AIISP faculty would like to emphasize: Cornell’s founding was enabled in the course of a national genocide by the sale of almost one million acres of stolen Indian land under the Morrill Act of 1862. To date the university has neither officially acknowledged its complicity in this theft nor has it offered any form of restitution to the hundreds of Native communities impacted.

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