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“Reclaiming Indigenous Sovereignty through Sport: Cherokee Women & Stickball.”

Dr. Natalie M. Welch (she/her) is an assistant professor at Seattle University teaching marketing and working in the MBA in Sport and Entertainment Management program. She is an enrolled member of the Eastern Band of Cherokee Indians and grew up in Cherokee, North Carolina. She is an alumnus of the University of Tennessee (B.S. and PhD) and the University of Central Florida DeVos Sport Business Management…


Visiting Speaker: Santee Frazier, Cherokee Nation Poet & Educator

Event Sponsored by Gable Chair Professor of History James F. Brooks, Avid Bookshop and INAS Poetry Selection: Mangled, Letters, and the Target Girl LOCATION  Old Fire Hall #2: 489 Prince Ave., Athens, GA 30601 March 2nd, 5pm A citizen of the Cherokee Nation of Oklahoma, Santee Frazier earned a BFA from the Institute of American Indian Arts and an MFA from Syracuse University. His first collection of poems, Dark Thirty (2009), was…


Imagined Indian: Native Stereotyping in Society

UGA's Native American Student Association Presents! Imagined Indian: Native Stereotyping in Society Thursday, February 23 5:30-7:30 PM Tate Intersection  Free food will be provided! All are welcome to join us in this great discussion of Native American Representation! We want to create a judgment-free learning environment so the public can engage in critical conversation about Native Identity and Stereotypes!


Imagined Indian: Native Stereotyping in Society

UGA's Native American Student Association Presents! Imagined Indian: Native Stereotyping in Society Thursday, February 23 5:30-7:30 PM Tate Intersection  Free food will be provided! All are welcome to join us in this great discussion of Native American Representation! We want to create a judgment-free learning environment so the public can engage in critical conversation about Native Identity and Stereotypes!


Imagined Indian: Native Stereotyping in Society

The Executive Board of UGA's Native American Student Association is hosting a presentation and panel discussion on Native American stereotypes in American Society. The panel includes INAS Director and Eidson Distinguished Professor of Native American Literature, Dr. LeAnne Howe, and Associate Professor of Native American Literature and Film, Dr. Channette Romero along with a student Executive Board Member. The presentation will review the…


Native Americans & NAGPRA

Dr. Ervan Garrison (Choctaw) will present a talk on Native American perspectives on the Native American Graves Protection and Repatriation (NAGPRA) and the history of relevant US policy concerning Native American sites, artifacts, and ancestral remains. NAGPRA's landmark 1990 legislation has been difficult to implement and fraught with controversy. Dr. Garrison will discuss how NAGPRA has changed the field for archaeology and anthropology and…


Film screening opportunities! 

Film screening opportunities!  . Wednesday, January 25 @3pm at 118 Gilbert Hall. . Monday, Jan 30: 5:30 at Ciné. Short Nights! followed by Q & A with Directors, producers and scriptwriter from DR, Wendy Muniz and Guillermo Zouain. . Tuesday, Jan. 31: 2:20 at 118 Gilbert Hall, a conversation with Wendy Muniz and Guillermo Zouain


Rebecca Nagle "We are still here, fighting indigenous erasure in the media"

Rebecca Nagle is an award winning journalist and citizen of Cherokee Nation. She is the writer and host of the podcast This Land. Her writing on Native representation, federal Indian law, and tribal sovereignty has been featured in the Atlantic, the Washington Post, The Guardian, USA Today, Indian Country Today, and more. Rebecca Nagle is the recipient of the American Mosaic Journalism Prize, Women’s Media Center’s Exceptional Journalism Award,…


UGA Native American Student Association (NASA) presents Stanley Holder "Educating the Whole Child"

Stanley Holder is a member of the Wichita and Affiliated Tribes. He is a former Vice President of the tribe and has served in various capacities as an employee and member of tribal committees. He has an AA Degree in Psychology, a BS Degree in Psychology with a Minor in Criminal Justice (Cum Laude) and an MA Degree in Behavioral Science. He is a member of Phi Theta Kappa and Phi Kappa Phi the national honor societies for two-year colleges and…


UGA History Department's Lunch Time Time Machine Series: Why are there no American Indians in the story of Athens?

This installment of the History Department’s undergraduate lecture series is presented by Dr. James Brooks. Brooks is the recipient of numerous national awards for scholarly excellence. His 2002 "Triple-Crown" winning (Bancroft, Parkman, and Turner Prizes) Captives & Cousins: Slavery, Kinship and Community in the Southwest Borderlands focused on the traffic in women and children across the region as expressions of…
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