On Dec 6-7, 2018, scholars and journalists engaged in talks and discussion with more than 110 participants — and some 1,200 on Facebook livestream — at the International Symposium on Indigenous Communities and Climate Change held at Princeton. Shown here: Jenni Monet, an independent journalist and a tribal citizen of the Pueblo of Laguna in New Mexico, speaks about her experience covering the Dakota Access Pipeline project. Photo by Nick Donnoli Productions LLC
Sarah Sense, Weaving Water, No. 30, 2013. Archival laser prints, bamboo paper, maps, artist tape, 12” x 17”. Shown courtesy of the artist as the featured image on the website and poster for the April 2019 conference “Indigenous/Settler” at Princeton. The conference aimed to examine methods for thinking across geographies, building alliances, and fighting settler colonialism at large without abandoning attention to specific histories and struggles.
Yanktonai, Winter Count, cotton cloth, ink, pigment, 40 3/4 × 35 1/4 inches (103.5 × 89.5 cm), 1911. Detroit Institute of Arts. Featured in the Spring and Fall 2020 online symposium “American Contact: Intercultural Encounter and the History of the Book,” which proceeds from the particular pressure on “text” in the Americas, and the rich histories of negotiation between cultures defined by widely divergent textual, linguistic, and notational traditions.
The 1970s were a “golden age” of American Indian life on campus, says retired curator Alfred Bush in Princeton Alumni Weekly. From left, in 1973: Louis Ballard ’76 (Osage-Quapaw-Delaware), Conroy Chino *73 (Acoma Pueblo), Lorene Reano ’75 (Santa Domingo Pueblo), Regis Pecos ’77 (Conchiti Pueblo), Lily Shangreaux ’74 (Lakota), Lee Martine ’79 (Navajo), and Patrick Anderson ’75 (Tlingit-Aleut). Photo by Robin Lloyd ’73/courtesy Alfred Bush
Princeton’s Native American and Indigenous Studies Initiative (NAISIP) fosters a cross-disciplinary dialogue among faculty, students, staff, and community members whose research and teaching interests focus on Indigenous peoples.