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The City of Boulder Presents: The Peoples' Crossing: Honoring Relationships with Tribal Nations

Anonymous — Thu, 14 Mar 2024 06:00:00 +0000

The City of Boulder Presents: The Peoples' Crossing: Honoring Relationships with Tribal Nations Anonymous (not verified) Thu, 03/14/2024 - 00:00

The City of Boulder extends its gratitude to American Indian Tribal Nations for the continuing opportunity to listen and learn from them and welcomes the public and the media to a unique community event developed in partnership with Tribal Representatives. Seating for this program may be limited and we ask community members and members of the media to share their interest in attending the city-Tribal Nation public program, scheduled for Thursday, March 14, by registering online.

Our collaborative event – “The Peoples' Crossing: Honoring Relationships with Tribal Nations" – welcomes Tribal Nations who have traversed, lived in and stewarded lands in the Boulder Valley since time immemorial to share their perspectives, histories, cultures and traditions with the Boulder community. "The Peoples' Crossing: Honoring Relationships with Tribal Nations" event will be held from 1:30 to 5:30 p.m. on Thursday, March 14, at the University of Colorado-Boulder's Williams Village Multipurpose Room, 500 30th St. The program schedule currently includes:

We appreciate Tribal Representatives guidance in developing this program intended to sustain and honor city-Tribal Nation relationships and help build broader community connections to foster respectful and meaningful engagement with Tribal Nations and Indigenous communities.

Flag processions to open and close the public program to honor Native American veterans and Tribal Nations.
Moderated panels with Tribal Representatives on topics, such as Tribal Sovereignty, Traditional Ecological Knowledge, cultural resource management, meaningful engagement with Tribal Nations and issues Tribal Nations are facing today.
Dancers and singers-drummers from the Cheyenne and Arapaho Tribes.
A reception intended to help community members and organizations meet and learn from Tribal Representatives.

The name for this program honors The Peoples Crossing – a west Boulder area that Tribal Representatives named in 2021 and honors Boulder as a crossroads for Indigenous Peoples since time immemorial. The area has become an important symbol for the city in its ongoing, collaborative work with Tribal Nations.

To attend, please refer to the City of Boulder event webpage: “The Peoples' Crossing: Honoring Relationships with Tribal Nations".

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The Blinding Light of Race in Science and Society

Anonymous — Tue, 12 Mar 2024 06:00:00 +0000

The Blinding Light of Race in Science and Society Anonymous (not verified) Tue, 03/12/2024 - 00:00

Dr. Michael L. Blakey

Tuesday, March 12 at 5:00pm
Eaton Humanities, Humanities 1B50
1610 Pleasant Street, Boulder, CO 80309

National Endowment for the Humanities Professor of Anthropology, Africana Studies, and American Studies
Director of the Institute for Historical Biology
College of William & Mary

This event is co-sponsored by the Department of Anthropology, the Center for African & African American Studies, the Center for Native American and Indigenous Studies, the Institute of Behavioral Science, the Institute for Behavioral Genetics, the Department of Classics, the Department of Geography, the Department of Integrative Physiology, the Department of Sociology, the LGBTQ Studies Program, the International Affairs Program, and the University of Colorado Museum of Natural History

ABSTRACT

This lecture concerns the origins of White supremacy as a cover for the immorality of slavery and colonialism. Anthropology will legitimize the idea of White supremacy in both its biological and cultural subdisciplines, by degree. I show the contestation of racist science by African diasporic intellectuals from the beginning until the present. One of the many twists and turns White supremacy takes in popular discourse and scientific theories is the current 'evasive racism' and 'unmarked whiteness' that have made the denial of racism into the new racism. There is typically a moral gloss over discriminatory behavior from Christian to 'natural' justifications for inequity, to the current performative anti-racism, that disguises on-going material discrimination. Current 'diversity regimes' achieve this 'moral cover' by misdirection, to pose 'All Lives Matter (which we already know) in place of Black Lives Matter (which White people need to learn).

About Professor Michael L. Blakey:

Michael L. Blakey is National Endowment for the Humanities Professor of Anthropology, Africana Studies, and American Studies, and Founding Director of the Institute for Historical Biology at William & Mary. He received the B.A. at Howard University, the M. A. and Ph.D. in anthropology at the University of Massachusetts-Amherst, and completed specialized studies at Oxford and London Universities. Blakey held professorships at Spelman College, Columbia, Brown, La Sapienza, and Howard University, where he founded the W. Montague Cobb Biological Anthropology Laboratory. He has served as president of the Association of Black Anthropologists (1987-1989), and member of the editorial boards of American Anthropologist (2012-2016) and American Antiquity (2021-). Blakey represented the United States on the Council of the 4th World Archaeological Congress in Cape Town, South Africa (1999). He is a member of the Scholarly Advisory Committee of the National Museum of African American History and Culture of the Smithsonian Institution (2006-), where he previously held the position of Research Associate in Physical Anthropology at the National Museum of Natural History (1985- 1994). He was a Key Advisor to the Race: Are We So Different exhibition and website (understandingrace.org) of the American Anthropological Association (from 2008).

Blakey was Scientific Director of the New York African Burial Ground Project (1992-2009), the most sophisticated bioarchaeological project in the United States. His team began ethical bioarchaeology, the term ‘descendant community,’ and its use in an empowered public engagement intended for the democratization of knowledge. The Manhattan site became a U.S. National Monument in 2007. He continues to help facilitate descendant communities’ empowerment to tell their own stories and memorialize their dead. The African Burial Ground’s clientage model of public engagement contributed to the new best practices of the National Trust for Historic Preservation in 2018. Blakey has been appointed Co-Chair of the American Anthropological Association’s Commission for the Ethical Treatment of Human Remains mandated to consolidate and advance the highest ethical standards for the treatment of all human skeletons and tissue samples at archaeological sites, museums, and laboratories in the United States (2022-2024). In 2021, Blakey was presented the President’s Award of the American Anthropological Association, the Legacy Award of the Association of Black Anthropologists, and, in 2022, the Plumeri Award for Faculty Excellence at William & Mary. He is currently completing a 1,500-page monograph on race and racism in science and society, adding to his approximately 90 reports, refereed articles, and edited volumes.

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3rd Annual 'Celebrating the Indigenous Americas'

Anonymous — Mon, 11 Mar 2024 06:00:00 +0000

3rd Annual 'Celebrating the Indigenous Americas' Anonymous (not verified) Mon, 03/11/2024 - 00:00

CELEBRATING THE INDIGENOUS AMERICAS SOUTH-NORTH/NORTH-SOUTH TRANSHEMISPHERIC DIALOGUES

Hosted by the CU Boulder Latin American & Latinx Studies Center

The 3rd Annual Celebrating the Indigenous Americas will be a week of virtual and in-person events hosted by the Latin American and Latinx Studies Center at CU Boulder from March 11-15, 2024. All events are free and open to the public.

For five days, Indigenous artists, advocates, community leaders, educators, scholars and allies will be hosted virtually and in-person at the University of Colorado from different parts of the Americas to celebrate the ever-renewed presence of Latin American Indigenous and Native American languages and cultures in daily life, activities and professions. The keynote speakers are Emil Keme, Maya K’iche’ Professor at Emory University, and Karyn Recollet, Cree Assistant Professor at the University of Toronto.

Planned panels and roundtables will cover critical perspectives on Latinx Indigeneities, Indigenous Migration, Queer Indigeneities, Restitutions and Museums, Indigenous Media, Indigenous Democracies, Teaching Indigenous Languages in Higher Education, Professions in Indigenous Languages, and what Land Back means for Universities. We also invite audiences to join us for a music/dance workshop, film streaming, and games.

This event is sponsored by U.S. Department of Education: UISFL Grant (International and Foreign Language Education), LALSC, CNAIS, University Libraries, WGST, the Museum of Natural History, the School of Education, ARMC, PWR, ETHN, CHA, GEO, CAW, A&S and LING.

Please refer to Program for specifics.

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Say, Listen: Writing as Care by the Black | Indigenous 100s Collective

Anonymous — Mon, 04 Mar 2024 15:36:43 +0000

Say, Listen: Writing as Care by the Black | Indigenous 100s Collective Anonymous (not verified) Mon, 03/04/2024 - 08:36

In Say, Listen: Writing as Care, scholars working within Blackness and Indigeneity model an innovative method for thinking, writing, and practicing care together. The Black | Indigenous 100s Collective emerged before the COVID-19 pandemic as a means to grapple with the sometimes-frustrating limits of life in the academy and the urgency for conversation between Black and Indigenous thinkers. Building on the 100-word writing experiment that originated with Emily Bernard at the University of Vermont in 2009, each entry is precisely 100 words and draws inspiration from the one that came before.

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United Nations experts gather at CU Boulder to discuss Indigenous communities and their role in the ‘greening’ economy

Anonymous — Tue, 23 Jan 2024 20:24:04 +0000

United Nations experts gather at CU Boulder to discuss Indigenous communities and their role in the ‘greening’ economy Anonymous (not verified) Tue, 01/23/2024 - 13:24

U.N. staff, ambassadors, politicians, and academic experts from around the world are part of the gathering. The group will discuss Indigenous peoples’ relationship with the environment and whether those communities are being included in attempts to make the economy more eco-friendly and sustainable.

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Native American Student Experience at CU Over the Years: Perspectives from the First Native CU-Boulder graduate and PhD Student.

Anonymous — Thu, 09 Nov 2023 22:50:08 +0000

Native American Student Experience at CU Over the Years: Perspectives from the First Native CU-Boulder graduate and PhD Student. Anonymous (not verified) Thu, 11/09/2023 - 15:50

Thursday, November 9th, 4-5 pm in the Abrams Lounge at the Center for Community (C4C building). This talk is presented as part of Native American Heritage Month, also as part of the CU History Project, and also as part of a new pilot mentorship program to improve mentoring for Native American graduate students in STEM fields. All students, staff and faculty are welcome to attend. Charlie Cambridge will share information about his experiences at CU, and we will celebrate his achievements. Refreshments served.

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Meet CU-Boulder’s new Associate Vice Chancellor for Native American Affairs

Anonymous — Tue, 07 Nov 2023 22:00:00 +0000

Meet CU-Boulder’s new Associate Vice Chancellor for Native American Affairs Anonymous (not verified) Tue, 11/07/2023 - 15:00

Tuesday November 7, 4-6pm in the Abrams Lounge, at the Center for Community (C4C building). This meeting is open to students, staff and faculty interested in Native and Indigenous issues, studies and research on campus. This will be an informal meeting (with light refreshments) to better inform our new AVC, Benny Shendo, Jr. about issues, challenges and opportunities, as he settles into his new position. Andrew Cowell, Director of the Center for Native American and Indigenous Studies (CNAIS) will moderate the first part of the meeting, with casual conversation to follow.

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Indigenous Peoples Day, Indigenous Food Sovereignty Event

Anonymous — Sun, 08 Oct 2023 22:50:38 +0000

Indigenous Peoples Day, Indigenous Food Sovereignty Event Anonymous (not verified) Sun, 10/08/2023 - 16:50

Wednesday, Oct. 11, 4:30-7:30, Kittredge Central, in collaboration with CU DEI Office.

Join us for an evening of good food, community, and celebration of Indigenous knowledge. This event will highlight knowledge keepers and activists who are keeping Indigenous food traditions alive. Our speakers will explore some of the historical context that gave rise to the prevalence of food deserts and the broader threat to Indigenous food ways as well as looking to the future of what food sovereignty means to them and their communities.

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Honoring Indigenous Food Sovereignty: An Indigenous Peoples Day Event

Anonymous — Fri, 06 Oct 2023 04:20:20 +0000

Honoring Indigenous Food Sovereignty: An Indigenous Peoples Day Event Anonymous (not verified) Thu, 10/05/2023 - 22:20

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Indigenous Peoples Day 2023

Anonymous — Fri, 06 Oct 2023 03:56:28 +0000

Indigenous Peoples Day 2023 Anonymous (not verified) Thu, 10/05/2023 - 21:56

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In the News

The City of Boulder Presents: The Peoples' Crossing: Honoring Relationships with Tribal Nations

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The Blinding Light of Race in Science and Society

Dr. Michael L. Blakey

Tuesday, March 12 at 5:00pm Eaton Humanities, Humanities 1B50 1610 Pleasant Street, Boulder, CO 80309

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3rd Annual 'Celebrating the Indigenous Americas'

CELEBRATING THE INDIGENOUS AMERICAS SOUTH-NORTH/NORTH-SOUTH TRANSHEMISPHERIC DIALOGUES

Hosted by the CU Boulder Latin American & Latinx Studies Center

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Say, Listen: Writing as Care by the Black | Indigenous 100s Collective

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United Nations experts gather at CU Boulder to discuss Indigenous communities and their role in the ‘greening’ economy

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Native American Student Experience at CU Over the Years: Perspectives from the First Native CU-Boulder graduate and PhD Student.

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Meet CU-Boulder’s new Associate Vice Chancellor for Native American Affairs

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Indigenous Peoples Day, Indigenous Food Sovereignty Event

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Honoring Indigenous Food Sovereignty: An Indigenous Peoples Day Event

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Indigenous Peoples Day 2023

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Tuesday, March 12 at 5:00pm
Eaton Humanities, Humanities 1B50
1610 Pleasant Street, Boulder, CO 80309