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Department of American Indian Studies
PO Box 1510
Pembroke, NC 28372

Phone: 910.521.6266
Fax: 910.521.6606
Email: ais@uncp.edu

Location: Old Main, Room 231
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native american speakers series

The Spring 2013 Native American Speakers Series features Dr. Brenda J. Child and Dr. Kahente Horn-Miller.

 

Dr. Brenda J. ChildDr. Brenda J. Child
February 12, 2013
7:00 p.m.
Health Sciences Building 117

Brenda J. Child is an associate professor in the Department of American Studies at the University of Minnesota.  She received her PhD in History at the University of Iowa and was a Katrin Lamon Fellow at the School of American Research, Santa Fe, New Mexico.  Her book, Boarding School Seasons:  American Indian Families, 1900-1940 (University of Nebraska, 1998), won the North American Indian Prose Award.  Child was a consultant to the exhibit, “Remembering Our Indian School Days” at the Heard Museum in Phoenix, Arizona and co-author of the book that accompanied the exhibit, Away From Home (Heard, 2000).  The exhibit will travel to the National Museum of the American Indian in 2014.  Child’s newest book is Holding Our World Together:  Ojibwe Women and the Survival of Community (Viking/Penguin, 2012).  She is a board member of the Minnesota Historical Society and will join the Board of Trustees of the National Museum of the American Indian at the Smithsonian in 2013.  At the University of Minnesota, she was a recipient of the President’s Award for Outstanding Community Service and served as Chair of the Department of American Indian Studies (2009-12).  She is also part of a research group that developed a new digital humanities project, the Ojibwe People’s Dictionary, which launched as a website in 2012.  Child was born on the Red Lake Ojibwe Reservation in northern Minnesota where she is a citizen.  She resides with her family in Saint Paul and Bemidji, Minnesota.

This event is sponsored by the Department of American Indian Studies, Native American Resource Center, and the Office of Academic Affairs. It is free and open to the public.  Dr. Child's books will be available for purchase and for her to sign at the event. For more information, contact Dr. Mary Ann Jacobs at mary.jacobs@uncp.edu.



Dr. Kahente Horn-MillerDr. Kahente Horn-Miller
March 19, 2013
7:00 p.m.
Native American Resource Center

Kahente Horn-Miller holds a PhD in the Humanities from Concordia University (2009). She is currently the Coordinator for the Kahnawà:ke Legislative Coordinating Commission which oversees the Community Decision Making Process, the process used by the Kahnawà:ke community to make its laws. Along with her community work, she continues to write and speak on issues relevant to Indigenous peoples in the areas of membership, citizenship, adoption, women’s issues, consensus-based decision making, governance, colonization, the Mohawk Warrior Flag, Sky Woman, and Indigenous womanism. She also teaches part-time both at Concordia University and McGill University. She is the author of journal articles and book chapters on these same topics. As a mother to four daughters and a member of the Bear Clan, she is active in the traditional community of Kahnawà:ke.

This event is sponsored by the Department of American Indian Studies, Native American Resource Center, Office of Academic Affairs, Department of History, and the Teaching and Learning Center. It is free and open to the public.  For more information, contact Dr. Rose Stremlau at rose.stremlau@uncp.edu or Dr. Jane Haladay at haladayj@uncp.edu.

Past Speakers

Updated: Friday, January 18, 2013

 
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