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Events Spring 2005

Anth 370 Speaker Series

THURSDAYS 2:30 -5:00 PM
PLACE: 204 TOBIN

FEBRUARY 17: JESSIE LITTLE DOE (MASHPEE WAMPANOAG)
Co-Chair, Wampanoag Language Reclamation Project

MARCH 3: RAE GOULD (NIPMUC NATION)
Bringing the Past into the Present: Perspectives of a Native American Archaeologist

MARCH 24: DONNA ROBERTS MOODY (ABENAKI)

Contemporary Issues of the Abenaki

APRIL 7: MIKE MARKLEY (SEACONKE WAMPANOAG)

Re-emergent Tribes

APRIL 28: MURIEL MIGUEL (KUNA/RAPPAHANOCK)
Native Representations in Film and Theater


Native American Feminine Representation in Art

Nadema Agard
(Winyun Luta / Red Woman)
will give two slide lectures in the Five Colleges

Wednesday March 30

“The Arts and the Sacred in Native America”
Smith College at 7:30 p.m. in the
Graham Hall Auditorium, Hillyer Art Building
(next to the Museum on Elm Street/Rte 9)

Thursday March 31
“Goddesses of the Americas: The Sacred Feminine
in Native American Cosmology”
UMass at 7 p.m. Place TBA

Nadema Agard is a Cherokee/Lakota/Powhatan artists, curator, educator, museum professional and consultant in Repatriation and Multicultural / Native American arts and culture. She holds an M.A. in Art and Education from Columbia University Teachers College, was Repatriation Director for the Standing Rock Sioux and the Community Services Outreach Specialist with the Museum of the American Indian / Heye Foundation. Currently she is Director of Red Earth Studio Consulting / Productions in New York City.

Co-sponsored by the Smith College Museum of Art and the UMass Amherst Certificate Program in Native American Indian Studies [CPNAIS] (3/30) and the Josephine White Eagle Cultural Center, Native American Student Support Services, and CPNAIS (3.31).