2018 Speaker Series

A Cheyenne and Arapaho Artist's Journey with Brent Learned

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A Cheyenne and Arapaho Artist's Journey with Brent Learned Anonymous (not verified) Fri, 10/12/2018 - 13:16

Join CNAIS for a presentation on Brent Learned's latest exhibitions featuring the artist himself!

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Honor is Hereby Pledged

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Honor is Hereby Pledged Anonymous (not verified) Mon, 10/01/2018 - 17:15

Come learn about the cross-media, hybrid studio work of Indigenous artist Gina Adams!

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Navajo Sand Art Painting with Eugene Joe

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Navajo Sand Art Painting with Eugene Joe Anonymous (not verified) Tue, 04/17/2018 - 17:07

Eugene Joe is a Diné sand art painter from Shiprock, New Mexico. Eugene comes from a family of sand painters and has spent 50 years as an artist. His work reflects his Diné culture and includes portraits, landscapes, nature and traditional lifestyles. This event is co-sponsored with the Department of Ethnic Studies and will follow Arnold Cliffords presentation in Hale 240 on April 25th from 6:00-7:30pm.

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Ethnobotany, Land and the Environment through Navajo botanist Arnold Clifford

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Ethnobotany, Land and the Environment through Navajo botanist Arnold Clifford Anonymous (not verified) Tue, 04/17/2018 - 17:00

Arnold Clifford (Diné) is a Native scholar, field botanist, ethnobotanist, and geologist. From Beclahbito, New Mexico and the Carrizo Mountain Range, Clifford integrates his cultural teachings with his work. An associate editor for the Bolack San Juan Basin Flora Project, Clifford’s expertise is in flora of Navajo Nation and the Four Corners Region of the U.S. He is the one of the authors of Flora of the Four Corners Region, Vascular Plants of the San Juan River Drainage: Arizona, Colorado, New Mexico, and Utah with Kenneth Heil, Steven O’Kane Jr. and Linda Mary Reeves. Clifford will present about his ethnobotanical work and his other field projects throughout the Southwest. His work is directly related to the land as our ancestors and integral to the teachings and stories of Native peoples. Land is central to Clifford’s work as it is important to protect land for future generations.

This event will take place April 25th, 2018 in Hale 240 from 6:00-7:00pm. This event is generously co-sponsored by the department of Ethnic Studies.

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Indigenous Ecocinema: Decolonizing Media Landscapes

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Indigenous Ecocinema: Decolonizing Media Landscapes Anonymous (not verified) Tue, 04/10/2018 - 14:07

What is Indigenous ecocinema? Engaging this foundational question, Salma Monani will consider the material and decolonial dimensions of cinema, arguing that such considerations are useful to reframe popular and scholarly understandings of environment, Indigenous peoples, cinema, and the confluences of these categories. This event will be hosted at Humanities 250 on April 19th, 2018 from 5:00- 6:30pm.

Join us with a special talk by CNAIS Visiting Scholar Dr. Salma Monani, who will explore the material and decolonial dimensions of Indigenous cinema.

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Kini Akua: The Multitudes of Gods

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Kini Akua: The Multitudes of Gods Anonymous (not verified) Mon, 03/05/2018 - 14:59

Joshua Lanakila Mangauil is a Native Hawaiian cultural practicioner, Mauna Kea Kia'i (Protector), and Founding Director of the Hawaiian Cultural Center of Hāmākua. Please join us for his presentation on March 15th, 2018 in Humanities 150 and 5:00pm. This event is generously co-sponsored by the American Indian Law Program

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The Collective Rights of Native American Religious Freedom

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The Collective Rights of Native American Religious Freedom Anonymous (not verified) Tue, 02/20/2018 - 12:39

Native American communities qua communities have sought protections for sacred lands, practices, objects, and ancestral remains under the legal regime of religious freedom without marked success. While many have understood this as a failure of judicial understanding of the distinctive features of indigenous religions, I contend courts have failed to reckon fully with the collective nature of the religious freedom claims, especially when tribes, not individuals, are the litigants. When courts face sacred claims of Native communities, they should regard these both in terms of religious freedom law and in the collective terms of federal Indian law, based on treaties, the special government to government relationship with the tribes, and the federal trust responsibility to preserve and protect the cultures and religions of the tribes. Specifically I analyze key sacred lands for the workings of a misrecognition of collective claims of religious obligation as matters of individual spiritual fulfillment; 2) trace the decidedly collective contours of statutory protections in the American Indian Religious Freedom Act (1978) and the Native American Graves Protection and Repatriation Act (1992), tailored as they are to the government to government relationship; 3) identify a pattern effective court recognition of collective Native American religions in the case law surrounding accommodations under the Bald and Golden Eagle Protection Act. 4) consider the logic of the United Nations Declaration of the Rights of Indigenous Peoples (2007); and 5) develop a reading of Burwell v. Hobby Lobby (2014) that supports such recognition of collective rights to Native American religious freedom under the Religious Freedom Restoration Act (1993) in the Hobby Lobby moment.

Join us on March 5th, 2018 in Humanities 250 from 5:00-6:30pm.

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