Tag Archives: Native American
Navajo carver Clitso Dedman
Clitso Dedman, Navajo Carver (University of Nebraska Press/Bison Books, 2023) by Boston College Professor Emerita Rebecca Valette is an illustrated biography of master wood carver Clitso Dedman, a remarkable and underrecognized 20th-century artist. A former blacksmith and builder, Dedman took up … Continue reading
Native kinship, institutionalization, and remembering
On March 21, historian Susan Burch, a professor of American studies at Middlebury College, will give a lecture connected to her most recent book, Committed: Remembering Native Kinship in and beyond Institutions (University of North Carolina Press, 2021). A co-founder … Continue reading
Posted in Guest Authors, Park Street Corporation Speaker Series
Tagged Native American, U.S history
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Joy Harjo: Indigenous Poetry and Native Literature
Award-winning poet, musician, and performer Joy Harjo will present “Indigenous Poetry and Native Literature” at Boston College on February 21 at 7 p.m. in Gasson Hall, room 100. A member of the Muscogee (Creek) Nation, Harjo was the first Native … Continue reading
Robin Wall Kimmerer on indigenous wisdom and science
Robin Wall Kimmerer will give a lecture based on her nonfiction book, Braiding Sweetgrass: Indigenous Wisdom, Scientific Knowledge and the Teachings of Plants (Milkweed Press), on December 1 at 7 p.m. (ET). Her presentation will be in webinar format followed … Continue reading
Posted in Guest Authors, Lowell Humanities Series
Tagged botany, environment, Native American
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Wikipedia made better
Thanks to Boston College senior Marie Pellissier, the online encyclopedia Wikipedia has an informative, well-researched entry on a pioneering woman of the American West, Susan LaFlesche Picotte (1865-1915). For an assignment in Professor of History Marilynn Johnson’s course History of … Continue reading
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Tagged American history, History Department, Native American, women
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