Director's Note
Welcome back!! September is one of the most beautiful and exciting months of the year, especially this fall as we embrace the return-to-campus activities and sense of community we have all missed so much this past year and a half. NAISI is excited to welcome back our Native American and Indigenous students, NAIS students and faculty, and a new staff member (Miranda Worl joining us as a fellow in the NAISI office this year).
We have a number of events and developments to look forward to early in the semester. In early October we are collaborating with the Brown Arts Institute to host a week of celebrating local Indigenous artists, including Hartman Deetz (a local Mashpee Wampanoag wampum maker and artist). He will be joined by Michelle Cook for an event close to Indigenous Peoples' Day. More details to come soon!
We are also very excited to announce that the NAISI office space is expanding!! Beginning this fall we will have an additional meeting space and a community space that will offer room for student and community gatherings (think films and popcorn, beading, braiding sweetgrass, snacks and conversation, study space ...). We will have more details about this development soon, so watch for that.
And ... also watch for an announcement about the 2021-22 Tribal Community Member in Residence (TCMR) in the October newsletter! We can't wait to see you at a NAISI event soon and have you meet this year's TCMR.
Welcome back to campus! Stay safe and healthy this fall.
Rae Gould and the NAISI Staff
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Banner Image: The banner of this month's newsletter is an image of the NAISI garden, which a team of undergraduates is revitalizing this summer to grow tomatoes, squash, zucchini, beans, and more. [Photo by Kaliko Kalāhiki.]
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Congratulations to our Fall 2020 Visiting Instructor Marina Tyquiengco (Chamoru), who has been appointed the inaugural Ellyn McColgan Assistant Curator of Native American Art at the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston (MFA)!
Tyquiengco recently earned her doctorate from the University of Pittsburgh. According to the Museum of Fine Arts Press Release: "In this new position within the Art of the Americas Department, Tyquiengco will help shape the MFA’s commitment to Native American art and culture; build, display and interpret the collection through innovative exhibitions and installations; and work with colleagues across the Museum to build partnerships with Indigenous communities. Tyquiengco currently serves as Curatorial Assistant in the MFA’s Department of Contemporary Art and will transition into her new role in September. "
Well done, Dr. Tyquiengco!
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Congratulations to Kaliko Kalāhiki (Native Hawaiian ‘24), who is joining the Center for Native American Youth's Youth Advisory Board! From CNAY's website:
Kalikoonāmaukūpuna (Kaliko) Kalāhiki is a Native Hawaiian activist seeking to recenter environmentalism on Indigenous movements in order to directly address climate change and environmental injustice. He is a rising sophomore at Brown University, hopefully studying Science, Technology, and Society. With the Center for Law and Social Policy, Kalāhiki is a Changemaker working on the New Deal for Youth’s Environmental Justice team. With CNAY, he is a Generation-Indigenous Ambassador and assists with public outreach campaigns and other initiatives. Kalāhiki also founded and is building a Native Hawaiian youth rights organization remotely to uplift the needs of Native Hawaiians.
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"Strength in Numbers"
Saturday, September 4
1 to 3 pm at BCSC
Please RSVP ahead of time.
GSOCnSTEM, Nabrit BGSA, NAISI, SACNAS, and SNMA have all partnered together to co-host "Strength in Numbers," an event dedicated to building community amongst underrepresented graduate and medical students. Come meet other URMs, and build lasting connections and friendships! Snacks and drinks will be provided! The event will take place from 1 to 3 pm on Saturday, September 4 at the BCSC.
Refer to the flyer below for additional details.
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We're looking forward to welcoming you to campus, and eager to hear about your summer! Here's what we've been up to:
Rae Gould has been spending time with Shirine Saad, who will teach courses in Arts Journalism and Criticism for the Brown Arts Institute in Spring of 2022. They have been enjoying music and friendship in beautiful western Massachusetts.
Sara Wintz is reading "Decolonization is Not a Metaphor" by Eve Tuck and K. Wayne Yang, My Meteorite by Harry Dodge, and is watching Betty and Rez Dogs.
Makana Kushi is (finally!) reading Tommy Orange's There There.
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External Events & Opportunities
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Seeking Participants for Indigenous SNAC Edit-a-thon October 11-12, 2021
Hello everyone!
We are seeking contributing editors and peer reviewers for an Indigenous SNAC (Social Networks and Archival Contexts) edit-a-thon being planned for the Fall of 2021. The edit-a-thon event will be held on October 11th and 12th as a celebration of Indigenous Peoples’ Day. This edit-a-thon aims to improve discovery of Indigenous archival material that has been dispersed to multiple repositories, and to begin exploring best practices around entities in SNAC for Indigenous, Native American, Alaskan Native, Native Hawaiian, or First Nations individuals and Nations, as well as for colonial actors and institutions whose records hold relevance for Indigenous researchers. No prior experience participating in an edit-a-thon or working with the SNAC platform is required.
Time Commitment for the SNAC Edit-a-thon and Training Dates
We estimate that the time commitment will be around 17 hours over the Fall. This includes a 6-hour SNACSchool training over 2 days in August or September (see below), SNAC practice time, review of event protocols and resources, and participation on October 11th or 12th during the edit-a-thon event.
The edit-a-thon will be held Monday, October 11th and Tuesday, October 12th, 2021 (with the option to participate on either day). We ask that all participants who have not previously attended SNACSchool training participate in one of the two trainings prior to the edit-a-thon. There are two options, one in August and one in September are listed below. You are only required to attend one.
Next SNACSchool training date:
Option 2: Wednesday September 22nd and Thursday September 23rd (the training is over 2 days, each day at 1-4pm Eastern / 10am-1pm Pacific / 7am-10am Hawaiian)
SNACSchool training is free, and just requires registration (which will be handled by the project team). Both the training and edit-a-thon can be done remotely.
What is SNAC?
SNAC is a free, online resource that helps users discover biographical and historical information about persons, families, and organizations. The platform is designed to connect distributed archival records held at cultural institutions around the world. See the SNAC website for free training materials and other information about the SNAC cooperative.
Basic Requirements of Participants
- Access to a computer
- Access to internet and ability to stream live video
- Basic English fluency
- Participation in SNACSchool training, including: Access to major internet browsers (Firefox or Google Chrome); Google-compatible email address for login (You may be asked to create one, if you do not have one)
- Adhere to edit-a-thon code of conduct and protocols created by the project team
Sign Up!
To register for the event, fill out this participant registration by September 10. If you have any additional questions please feel free to reach out to Lydia Curliss at lcurliss@umd.edu.
Please feel free to share this call with anyone who would be interested in participating.
Thank you for your consideration!
-The Project Team
The project is being collaboratively organized by Lydia Curliss (University of Maryland iSchool), Irene Gates (New School), Dina Herbert (NARA), Diana Marsh (University of Maryland iSchool), Katherine Meyers Satriano (Peabody Museum at Harvard), and Jerry Simmons (NARA), in partnership with an Indigenous Advisory Board comprised of Marge Bruchac (University of Pennsylvania), Stephen Curley (National Native American Boarding School Coalition), Taylor Gibson (Gāhsronih); Eric Hemenway (Little Traverse Bay Bands of Odawa Indians), Keahiahi Long (University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa), and Melissa Stoner (University of California at Berkeley).
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Call for Papers: Indigenous Borderlands in North America
Nov. 3-4, 2022 - University of New Mexico
Scholars of borderlands have made important contributions to our understanding of contingent identities and encounters, the historical roles of local actors, and the ambiguous nature of power in North America. In recent years, scholarship on Indigenous sovereignty, kinship, and relationality has fostered new conversations about Native territoriality, place-making, and ways of belonging. Indigenous ideas of place and community are reframing how we understand histories of border spaces, boundaries, crossings, and border towns in North America. Together, scholars and Indigenous communities are making important interventions from the intersections of Indigenous histories, epistemologies, and politics in historical and contemporary borderlands in North America.
This symposium invites paper submissions to develop new borderland and border-crossing approaches that center Indigenous peoples, homelands, political concerns, and related dynamics--temporally and spatially expanding borderlands frameworks. We particularly encourage papers that approach borderlands around a broad array of themes including (but not limited to):
- Migrants and mobilities, including Indigenous peoples as migrants, exiles, and refugees engaged in expansion, relocation, and diasporas.
- Kinship and intimacy, including issues related to gender, identity, families, and other-than-human relatives.
- Shared and contested spaces, including networks and entangled spaces, protected spaces of nature (parks, national forests, marine sanctuaries), and environmental concerns (toxicity, petrochemical development, climate change).
- Sovereignty and self-determination, including spaces of plural or nested sovereignties, political and spatial boundaries, jurisdictional issues, and political organizing.
- Violence, unfreedom, and resistance, including border town violence, slavery, and the carceral state.
- Frameworks and language that move beyond the settler-Indigenous binary to include Black, Asian, Asian American, Latinx, Pacific Islander peoples, and various other communities in the borderlands.
We are particularly eager for proposals from tribal nations and Indigenous organizations or scholars working with Indigenous communities. We are also open to non-traditional proposals and formats that encourage us to think critically about Indigenous borderlands.
We plan for this conference to be the first iteration of a set of symposia around the topic of Indigenous borderlands. These will include workshop experiences for the presenters and will result in an edited volume or special issue of a journal. Additional outcomes tied to the needs of Indigenous communities and Native nations will also be pursued.
Paper abstracts of around 350 words and a two-page CV or resume (one per participant) should be submitted by November 10, 2021, to cntrsw@unm.edu. Abstracts will be reviewed and all participants notified by November 30, 2021. Accepted papers of 7,000-10,000 words should be submitted in early October 2022, and will be distributed in advance to symposium participants. They will be presented and workshopped at a scholarly colloquium at the University of New Mexico on November 3-4, 2022. Limited travel and accommodation support will be available.
Symposium Coordinating Committee
- Rani-Henrik Andersson, Department of Cultures, University of Helsinki
- Boyd Cothran, History Department, York University
- Elizabeth Ellis (Peoria Tribe of Indians of Oklahoma), History Department, New York University
- Nakia D. Parker, History Department, Michigan State University
- Joshua L. Reid (Snohomish Tribe of Indians), History and American Indians Studies Departments, Director of the Center for the Study of the Pacific Northwest, University of Washington
- Samuel Truett, History Department, Director of the Center for the Southwest, University of New Mexico
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