coordinator ashlyn lovato! craddock, and bcsc heritage
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Friday, December 4, 2020
Brown University
Introducing NAISI's Inaugural TribalCommunity Member in Residence, Karen
Craddock, and BCSC Heritage SeriesCoordinator Ashlyn Lovato!
Getting To Know Our TribalCommunity Member in Residence:Rae Kuruhara Talks With Dr.Karen Craddock RK: What attracted you to this positionat Brown as Tribal Community Memberin Residence?
KC: It's a wonderful place for me to bringtogether all of my professional and personalexperience in the field as a health and wellnesspractitioner, as well as an administrator, as aprogram developer. It really feels like a placeof synergy where I can support students andtheir health and wellness. I can work with mycolleagues in program development and I canwork with administrators on the kinds ofvisioning and systems and strategies thatreally support all of that. So I get to wear all my hats and co-create some new ones inservice of our community and in service of our people.
RK: I'm so excited for you to get to know our family of students better.KC: I'm so excited about that as well! That's my real passion: to figure out ways tocontinue to support students. The only thing I'll add onto that, which is very specific to myparticular interests and goals, is to incorporate this work that I've done exploring Blackand Indigenous women's voices. This place of intersectionality and Black and NativeIndigeneity is very, very central to my personal lens. I’m hoping to show how vitallyimportant it is to build bridges within. That's one piece. And I'm really into literature,poetry, crafts, arts and artisans; making sure we're honoring that in this particular work,and helping to create programming connected to student wellness that is linked with thearts and creativity.
Read Rae Kuruhara's complete conversation with Karen Craddock here. To schedule ameeting with Karen, students may contact her at [email protected].
Meet BCSC's Native AmericanHeritage Series Coordinator:Ashlyn Lovato Ashlyn Lovato is a Member of Santa ClaraPueblo located in New Mexico. She iscurrently a sophomore planning toconcentrate in linguistics and cognitivescience. She enjoys hikes with her friendsand family, traditional knowledgesharing, discovering new coffee shops,and bonding over music. Currently,Ashlyn’s favorite spot near campus is theWoods-Gerry Gallery, RISD because sheis able to see the sunset. Ashlyn has a passion for Native American law, education andlanguage. She aspires to be an advocate for Indigenous communities through hereducation.
This year, she is working as the Native American Heritage Series Coordinator at the BrownCenter for Students of Color, which entails planning events for Native students and eventsrelated to Native heritage. As part of her heritage series work, she helped plan andmoderate a discussion on Indigenous healing practices called "Clearing a Path to Peace"with Tlingit elders Harold and Phil Gatensby, in collaboration with the TransformativeJustice Initiative, the Global Brown Center for International Students, and NAISI.(Recording coming soon!)
Brown Events
December Open Hours
This Monday, December 7 (3PM-5PM Eastern) join Rae Kuruhara (NAISICommunications Coordinator) at NAISI Open Hours. We're making holiday cookies!
On Monday, December 14 (3PM-5PM Eastern) we'll be playing games for prizes andlooking ahead to Spring 2021 semester. Join us for our End-of-the-Semester celebration!
A Curatorial Conversation: North AmericanIndian Treaties at the John Carter BrownLibrary
Thursday, December 17, 5:30-6:30PM Eastern
Please join the JCB for a conversation between Scott ManningStevens (Syracuse University) and Richard Ring (RhodeIsland Historical Society) around North American IndianTreaties at the JCB. Enjoy an up-close look at rare books and
maps from the JCB's collection and partake in a toast to the end of 2020.
This event will be held virtually by Zoom. Contact the John Carter Brown Library toaccess this event.
Spring 2021 NAIS Course Offerings
AMST 0192F Whose Land? Tracing History and Memory in the Native Northeast(Ally LaForge)
ANTH 1505 Vertical Civilization: South American Archaeology from Monte Verde tothe Inkas (Parker Van Valkenburgh)
ANTH 1624 Indians, Colonists, and Africans in New England (Patricia E.Rubertone)
ANTH 1650 Ancient Maya Writing (Stephen D. Houston)
CLPS 1392 Modern Mayan Languages (Scott H. AnderBois)
COLT 0610E Crisis and Identity in Mexico, 1519-1968 (Stephanie Merrim)
COLT 0710I New Worlds: Reading Spaces and Places in Colonial Latin America(Stephanie Merrim)
ETHN 0190H Indigenous Resurgence: Roots, Reclamations, and Relations (MakanaKushi)
ETHN 1200I History and Resistance in Representations of Native Peoples(Adrienne Keene)
ETHN 1200K Introduction to American Indian Studies (Nitana Hicks-Greendeer)
ETHN 1751A Indigenous Laws, Environmental Racism, and #LandBack (HonorKeeler)
HIST 0577B The US-Mexico Border and Borderlands (Evelyn Hu-Dehart)
HIST 1960H Colonization and Southern Africa's First Peoples (Nancy J. Jacobs)
HIST 2971T Colonial Latin America (Jeremy R. Mumford)
RELS 1610 Sacred Sites: Law, Politics, Religion (Nathaniel A. Berman)
For more information about these courses, visit our Course Offerings page.
Save the Date for Spring 2021 NAISI Events!
Sarah Deer Presidential LectureFebruary 18 (Time TBD)
Sovereignty of the Soul: Confronting Gender-Based Violence in Native America
Professor Deer will share information about thehistory of violence against women and two-spirit(LGBTQ+) people in tribal communities and legalchanges that will allow tribal nations to assertsovereignty over criminal and civil cases involvingvictims of crime. The keynote will highlight the roleof advocates in engaging in law reform with an aimfor justice for marginalized communities.
Women’s History Month Eventwith the Sarah Doyle Center
Early March (Time TBD)
Regeneration: Relationships ofKinship, Care, andBecoming/Transformationwith Leanne Simpson
External Events and Opportunities
Upcoming Virtual Programs Hosted by the Library & Museum ofthe American Philosophical Society
Virtual Discussion with Hannah Turner on Cataloguing Culture: Legacies ofColonialism in Museum Documentation
On Wednesday. December 9, at 1:00pm ET , Hannah Turner, AssistantProfessor in the School of Information at the University of British Columbia,will discuss the history of museum record keeping in an ethnographicmuseum to make the case that the history of anthropology is also a history ofdocumentation media. The talk is based off of her recent book, CataloguingCulture: Legacies of Colonialism in Museum Documentation (UBC Press,2020); where she details the long history of collecting, recording, and
documenting ethnographic material culture data at the Smithsonian’sDepartment of Anthropology in the National Museum of Natural History.
The event will be on Zoom and is free to attend. More details and registrationmay be found here: https://www.amphilsoc.org/events/cataloguing-culture-histories-documentation-ethnographic-museum
Indigenous Studies Seminar with Jermani Ojeda-Ludena,"Quechuapeople in radio stations in Cusco and Apurimac, Peru"
The final Indigenous Seminar for Fall 2020 will be held on Friday,December 18 at 3:30pm ET via Zoom. The speaker will be Jermani Ojeda-Ludena, a Quechua Indigenous scholar and member of a Quechua communityin Apurimac region, Peru. He is a Ph.D. candidate in the Department ofSpanish and Portuguese at University of Texas, Austin and will be presenting apaper titled "Quechua people in radio stations in Cusco and Apurimac, Peru."
Please register online to attend the seminar and to receive the pre-circulatedpaper: https://www.amphilsoc.org/events/indigenous-studies-seminar-quechua-people-radio-stations-cusco-and-apurimac-peru
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