EVENTS CALENDAR
Living Democracy Talk: Land Grab U: Land-Grant Universities and Indigenous Peoples
Tristan Ahtone and Robert Lee
January 22, 2021 @ 12:00 pm - 1:00 pm
On Zoom, free to attend
In 1862, President Abraham Lincoln signed the Morrill Act, which distributed public domain lands to raise funds for fledgling colleges across the nation. The creation story told around this event is that land-grant universities were given the gift of free land. But the truth is much more complicated: The Morrill Act worked by turning land expropriated from tribal nations into seed money for higher education. In all, the act redistributed nearly 10.8 million acres from more than 250 tribal nations for the benefit of 52 colleges. Those lands, when grouped together, represent an area approximately the size of Denmark. Ahtone and Lee’s presentation will both examine the land specifically used to found the University of California and also discuss the methods employed in this investigation of land expropriation, in order to reveal the links between violent colonialism and higher education.
Tristan Ahtone is a member of the Kiowa Tribe and is editor-in-chief at the Texas Observer. He has reported for multiple outlets including PBS NewsHour, National Native News, NPR, Al Jazeera America and High Country News, where he served as Indigenous Affairs editor. Robert Lee is a lecturer in American History at the University of Cambridge. His research focuses on Indigenous dispossession and U.S. state formation in the nineteenth-century American West. ASL and Spanish interpretation will be provided. To view ASL interpretation, please attend the webinar on a desktop computer.
Register here: https://www.ihc.ucsb.edu/event/living-democracy-talk-land-grab-u-land-grant-universities-and-indigenous-peoples/
Penobscot Winter Stories with Carol Dana
Every other Tuesday at 2 pm beginning December 22, 2020
Storytelling dates are December 22, January 5 and 19, February 2 and 16, and March 2 and 16.
Online VIA ZOOM
Carol Dana (Penobscot) will share traditional Penobscot stories, Atlohkewi "Tell Me a Story" during this multi-week series. She will also present the cultural significance of Atlohkewi. Sources of material are Leland’s Algonquian tales, Fannie Hardy Eckstorm (it has a lot of broken English), 200 stories she gleaned from UMO library, Molly Dell’s stories, the web, Micmac tales by Rand, Volume 1 & 2 that Frank T. Siebert recorded, Gluscabe and other tales by Horace Beck. Penobscot Winter Stories are told between the Winter Solstice and the Spring Equinox. This program will be held every other Tuesday, online. Please register for this event to be able to interact with and ask question of Carol.
To attend these storytelling sessions via Zoom and to interact with Carol, you will need to register. To register, please click here.
Virtual Wabanaki Winter Market
December 12, 2020
General information link: https://umaine.edu/hudsonmuseum/event/virtual-wabanaki-winter-market/
Link to Youtube channel of artist demonstrations, performances, and storytelling featuring MIBA artists and makers (live-streamed December 12, and available for viewing after):
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Cyq3MgzLsgc&feature=youtu.be
Link to directory of Wabanaki artists:
https://umaine.edu/hudsonmuseum/wabanaki-artist-directory/
Online Exhibit: State of Mind: Becoming Maine
Available Online at https://www.mainememory.net/sitebuilder/site/3012/page/4753/display?use_mmn=1&fbclid=IwAR06pk_J-QjVUbmdsc65kPf_fMetttNJ8C_mwgEPfC8icrlvbjhO06Rx-zo
State of Mind: Becoming Maine explores Maine's Bicentennial. Installed March 13, 2020 through January 31, 2021 at Maine Historical Society in Portland. This online component expands content with Maine Memory Network items, and differs slightly from the physical installation. Please visit Holding up the Sky: Wabanaki People, Culture, History & Art, a companion exhibition examining 13,000 years of Maine history.
Curated by Tilly Laskey, Maine Historical Society. Advised by Anne Chamberland, Archives Acadiennes, University of Maine, Fort Kent; Brittany Cook, Bicentennial Education Fellow, Maine Historical Society; Deborah Cummings Khadraoui, Abyssinian Meeting House; James E. Francis Sr. (Penobscot) Director of Cultural and Historic Preservation, Penobscot Nation; Bob Greene, Author, Portland, Maine; John Johnson, Portland, Maine; Daniel Minter, Indigo Arts Alliance; Kathleen Neumann, Manager of Education, Maine Historical Society; Lise Pelletier, Director, Archives Acadiennes, University of Maine, Fort Kent; Darren Ranco (Penobscot), Professor of Anthropology and Coordinator of Native American Programs, University of Maine; Jamie Rice, Director of Collections & Research, Maine Historical Society; Donald Soctomah (Passamaquoddy) Director, Passamaquoddy Cultural Heritage Center and Passamaquoddy Tribal Historic Preservation Officer; Elaine Tselikis, Communications & Grants Manager, Maine Historical Society.
Exploring Racism, Colonization, and other Distortions of Thought
Online course with Sherri Mitchell, Esq. and Dr. Darren Ranco.
An incredible opportunity to go in-depth with two well-respected Indigenous scholars on issues of racism, colonization, and other distortions of thought that frame our broken systems and wounded
societies. This course will move participants from limited individual perceptions about these complex issues toward a more comprehensive and systemic awareness, while also helping to create a shared language that can frame a more consistent narrative for
identifying and addressing these root causes of inequity and injustice.
https://sacredinstructions.life/exploring-racism-colonization-and-other-distortions-of-thought/
Tristan Ahtone and Robert Lee
January 22, 2021 @ 12:00 pm - 1:00 pm
On Zoom, free to attend
In 1862, President Abraham Lincoln signed the Morrill Act, which distributed public domain lands to raise funds for fledgling colleges across the nation. The creation story told around this event is that land-grant universities were given the gift of free land. But the truth is much more complicated: The Morrill Act worked by turning land expropriated from tribal nations into seed money for higher education. In all, the act redistributed nearly 10.8 million acres from more than 250 tribal nations for the benefit of 52 colleges. Those lands, when grouped together, represent an area approximately the size of Denmark. Ahtone and Lee’s presentation will both examine the land specifically used to found the University of California and also discuss the methods employed in this investigation of land expropriation, in order to reveal the links between violent colonialism and higher education.
Tristan Ahtone is a member of the Kiowa Tribe and is editor-in-chief at the Texas Observer. He has reported for multiple outlets including PBS NewsHour, National Native News, NPR, Al Jazeera America and High Country News, where he served as Indigenous Affairs editor. Robert Lee is a lecturer in American History at the University of Cambridge. His research focuses on Indigenous dispossession and U.S. state formation in the nineteenth-century American West. ASL and Spanish interpretation will be provided. To view ASL interpretation, please attend the webinar on a desktop computer.
Register here: https://www.ihc.ucsb.edu/event/living-democracy-talk-land-grab-u-land-grant-universities-and-indigenous-peoples/
Penobscot Winter Stories with Carol Dana
Every other Tuesday at 2 pm beginning December 22, 2020
Storytelling dates are December 22, January 5 and 19, February 2 and 16, and March 2 and 16.
Online VIA ZOOM
Carol Dana (Penobscot) will share traditional Penobscot stories, Atlohkewi "Tell Me a Story" during this multi-week series. She will also present the cultural significance of Atlohkewi. Sources of material are Leland’s Algonquian tales, Fannie Hardy Eckstorm (it has a lot of broken English), 200 stories she gleaned from UMO library, Molly Dell’s stories, the web, Micmac tales by Rand, Volume 1 & 2 that Frank T. Siebert recorded, Gluscabe and other tales by Horace Beck. Penobscot Winter Stories are told between the Winter Solstice and the Spring Equinox. This program will be held every other Tuesday, online. Please register for this event to be able to interact with and ask question of Carol.
To attend these storytelling sessions via Zoom and to interact with Carol, you will need to register. To register, please click here.
Virtual Wabanaki Winter Market
December 12, 2020
General information link: https://umaine.edu/hudsonmuseum/event/virtual-wabanaki-winter-market/
Link to Youtube channel of artist demonstrations, performances, and storytelling featuring MIBA artists and makers (live-streamed December 12, and available for viewing after):
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Cyq3MgzLsgc&feature=youtu.be
Link to directory of Wabanaki artists:
https://umaine.edu/hudsonmuseum/wabanaki-artist-directory/
Online Exhibit: State of Mind: Becoming Maine
Available Online at https://www.mainememory.net/sitebuilder/site/3012/page/4753/display?use_mmn=1&fbclid=IwAR06pk_J-QjVUbmdsc65kPf_fMetttNJ8C_mwgEPfC8icrlvbjhO06Rx-zo
State of Mind: Becoming Maine explores Maine's Bicentennial. Installed March 13, 2020 through January 31, 2021 at Maine Historical Society in Portland. This online component expands content with Maine Memory Network items, and differs slightly from the physical installation. Please visit Holding up the Sky: Wabanaki People, Culture, History & Art, a companion exhibition examining 13,000 years of Maine history.
Curated by Tilly Laskey, Maine Historical Society. Advised by Anne Chamberland, Archives Acadiennes, University of Maine, Fort Kent; Brittany Cook, Bicentennial Education Fellow, Maine Historical Society; Deborah Cummings Khadraoui, Abyssinian Meeting House; James E. Francis Sr. (Penobscot) Director of Cultural and Historic Preservation, Penobscot Nation; Bob Greene, Author, Portland, Maine; John Johnson, Portland, Maine; Daniel Minter, Indigo Arts Alliance; Kathleen Neumann, Manager of Education, Maine Historical Society; Lise Pelletier, Director, Archives Acadiennes, University of Maine, Fort Kent; Darren Ranco (Penobscot), Professor of Anthropology and Coordinator of Native American Programs, University of Maine; Jamie Rice, Director of Collections & Research, Maine Historical Society; Donald Soctomah (Passamaquoddy) Director, Passamaquoddy Cultural Heritage Center and Passamaquoddy Tribal Historic Preservation Officer; Elaine Tselikis, Communications & Grants Manager, Maine Historical Society.
Exploring Racism, Colonization, and other Distortions of Thought
Online course with Sherri Mitchell, Esq. and Dr. Darren Ranco.
An incredible opportunity to go in-depth with two well-respected Indigenous scholars on issues of racism, colonization, and other distortions of thought that frame our broken systems and wounded
societies. This course will move participants from limited individual perceptions about these complex issues toward a more comprehensive and systemic awareness, while also helping to create a shared language that can frame a more consistent narrative for
identifying and addressing these root causes of inequity and injustice.
https://sacredinstructions.life/exploring-racism-colonization-and-other-distortions-of-thought/
Virtual Film Showing and Discussion of Dawnland
January 28, 2021
7:00PM-9:30PM EST
Free; registration required.
Upstander Project presents the Emmy Award winning film DAWNLAND - Directors' Cut + live Q&A. For decades, child welfare authorities have been removing Native American children from their homes to save them from being Indian. In Maine, the first official “truth and reconciliation commission” in the United States begins a historic investigation. DAWNLAND goes behind-the-scenes as this historic body grapples with difficult truths, redefines reconciliation, and charts a new course for state and tribal relations.
Join filmmaker Adam Mazo, learning director Mishy Lesser, and other special guests for a live Q&A after the film. This is a special opportunity to see the 86-minute directors' cut of DAWNLAND! Learn more about the film and watch the trailer at upstanderproject.org.
Link to register: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/dawnland-online-film-screening-live-filmmaker-qa-tickets-132110850109?aff=UPsitebanner
LECTURE: HISTORY, GEOGRAPHY, AND INDIGENOUS LIVES: A CONVERSATION BETWEEN LISA BROOKS AND JOE HALL
April 15, 6:30PM, via ZOOM
Lisa Brooks, Amherst College Professor of English and American Studies, and author of Our Beloved Kin: A New History of King Philip’s War, joins Bates College Associate Professor of History Joseph Hall to discuss their bodies of research on New England Native American lives. Hall, who teaches courses on colonial North America, the United States’ War for Independence, environmental history, and Native American history–including an intensive “Short Term” course on the history of Wabanakis–engages with Brooks’s “pathbreaking scholarship… grounded not just in extensive archival research but also in the land and communities of Native New England.” A place-based history that has been long hidden or misinterpreted is being looked at with fresh eyes–and informing a better understanding of and appreciation for present-day Native peoples in Maine and New England.Tickets: PHC Members: $12 (and we cover online ticket processing fee!); Non-Members: $17. Zoom link provided upon registration. https://pejepscothistorical.org/events/talks-presentations
January 28, 2021
7:00PM-9:30PM EST
Free; registration required.
Upstander Project presents the Emmy Award winning film DAWNLAND - Directors' Cut + live Q&A. For decades, child welfare authorities have been removing Native American children from their homes to save them from being Indian. In Maine, the first official “truth and reconciliation commission” in the United States begins a historic investigation. DAWNLAND goes behind-the-scenes as this historic body grapples with difficult truths, redefines reconciliation, and charts a new course for state and tribal relations.
Join filmmaker Adam Mazo, learning director Mishy Lesser, and other special guests for a live Q&A after the film. This is a special opportunity to see the 86-minute directors' cut of DAWNLAND! Learn more about the film and watch the trailer at upstanderproject.org.
Link to register: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/dawnland-online-film-screening-live-filmmaker-qa-tickets-132110850109?aff=UPsitebanner
LECTURE: HISTORY, GEOGRAPHY, AND INDIGENOUS LIVES: A CONVERSATION BETWEEN LISA BROOKS AND JOE HALL
April 15, 6:30PM, via ZOOM
Lisa Brooks, Amherst College Professor of English and American Studies, and author of Our Beloved Kin: A New History of King Philip’s War, joins Bates College Associate Professor of History Joseph Hall to discuss their bodies of research on New England Native American lives. Hall, who teaches courses on colonial North America, the United States’ War for Independence, environmental history, and Native American history–including an intensive “Short Term” course on the history of Wabanakis–engages with Brooks’s “pathbreaking scholarship… grounded not just in extensive archival research but also in the land and communities of Native New England.” A place-based history that has been long hidden or misinterpreted is being looked at with fresh eyes–and informing a better understanding of and appreciation for present-day Native peoples in Maine and New England.Tickets: PHC Members: $12 (and we cover online ticket processing fee!); Non-Members: $17. Zoom link provided upon registration. https://pejepscothistorical.org/events/talks-presentations
