Indigenous Studies
This fall the Native American and Indigenous Studies Initiative at Princeton (NAISIP) working group presents a seminar series that brings leading Native scholars, artists and activists to campus as a way of fostering cross-disciplinary dialogue in our community and beyond. On Oct. 28, Olga Ulturgasheva (University of Manchester) and Barbara Bodenhorm (University of Cambridge) explore “Languages of Emergency, Infrastructures of Response and Everyday Heroism in the Circumpolar North.”
A Conversation with Robbie RichardsonRichardson, a member of Pabineau First Nation (Mi’kmaw) in New Brunswick, Canada, and an assistant professor of English at Princeton University, discusses his current project, his research and teaching in Europe and at Princeton.
NAISIP recognizes Orange Shirt Day (Sept. 30). Read the NAISIP statement on residential schools.
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.
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
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.
