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Harvard University Committee on Ethnic Studies

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The Harvard University Native American Program

present

From the Gospel to Sovereignty:

Commemorating 350 Years of the Harvard Indian College

Friday, April 8, 2005, 10:00 am - 9:00 pm
Saturday, April 9. 2005, 10:00 am - 5:00 pm
Harvard University
Barker Center
Thompson Room, Room 110


Free and Open to the Public

Friday, April 8

10:00 -11:00 AM

Honoring Ceremony

Location: Barker Center, Thompson Room

Call To Order:
Jacqueline O'Neill, University Marshal, Harvard University
Invocation:
Jessie Little Doe Baird, Founder and Director, Wôpanâak Language Reclamation Project
Welcoming Remarks :
Carmen Lopez, Executive Director of the Harvard University Native American Program (HUNAP)
Opening Historical Reflection of Harvard Indian College:
Lisa Brooks, Lecturer in History and Literature, Harvard University
Address:
Donald Widdiss, Tribal Chair, Wampanoag Tribe of Gay Head-Aquinnah
Address:
Glen Marshall, Tribal Chair, Mashpee Wampanoag Tribe
Address:
Patrik Johansson, M.D.,Harvard Alumnae, M.Ph, Harvard School of Public Health
Honor Song
Gifting
Address:
Steve Hyman, Provost, Harvard University
Remarks by Native Students:

April Youpe (Fort Peck Sioux), Class of '08
Leah Lussier, (Red Lake Chippewa) Class of '07
Erica Scott (Lenni Lenape), Class of '06
Kyle Scherer (Munsee Delaware), Class of '05

Closing Blessing:

Bruce Curliss, Nipmuc Nation

12:00 - 1:00 PM
Lunch
1:00 -1:15 PM

Welcome

  • Introduction - Carmen Lopez (Executive Director, HUNAP)
  • Invocation - Jessie Little Doe Baird (Founder and Director, Wôpanâak Language Reclamation Project)
  • Welcome - Kay Kaufman Shelemay (Chair of the Committee on Ethnic Studies, Harvard University)
  • Address - Judy Kertesz (Ph.D. Candidate, History of American Civilization, Harvard University)
  • Address - William C. Kirby, (Dean of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences, Edith and Benjamin Geisinger Professor of History, Harvard University)
1:15 -2:45 PM

Panel I - History of the Indian College

  • Colin Calloway (Professor of History, Dartmouth College)
    • "Creation Stories and Invented Traditions: Indian Education and Ivy League Colleges"
  • Lisa Brooks (Lecturer in History and Literature, Harvard University)
    • "James Printer, the Cambridge Press, and the Legacy of Language Exchange"
  • Jessie Little Doe Baird (Founder and Director, Wôpanâak Language Reclamation Project)
    • "Living by the Sword"

Panel Chair: Joyce Chaplin (Professor of History, Harvard University)

2:45 PM - 3 PM
Coffee Break
3:00 - 4:30 PM

Panel II - Contemporary Native Memories of Harvard and the Academy

  • Joseph Abeyta (Superintendent, Santa Fe Indian School)
    • "The American Indian Program: From Harvard to Indian Country"
  • Erma Vizenor (Tribal Chair, White Earth Band of Ojibwe)
    • "Looking to the Past; Our Hope for the Future"
  • Nimachia Hernandez (Assistant Professor of Ethnic Studies, University of California-Berkeley)
    • "Community, Solidarity, and Sovereignty: Expropriation in the Intellectualization of Native American Studies"

Panel Chair: Charles V. Willie (Professor of Education, Harvard Graduate School of Education)
4:30 - 5:00 PM
Break and Walking Tour: Visit the site of the Harvard Indian College and Commemorative Plaque.
5:00 - 6:00 PM

Keynote Address

"Native in the 21st Century- Reclaiming "American" From the Hungry Ghosts"

Susan M. Power (J.D., Harvard Law School)
7:30 - 9:00 PM
Musical Performance: Mixashawn
 
 
Saturday, April 9
10:00 AM - 12:00 PM

Panel III - Memory Made Material

  • Rubie Watson (Senior Lecturer in Anthropology and Former Howells Director of the Peabody Museum of Ethnology, Harvard University)
    • "History, Memory, and Museums: Complex Relationships"
  • Linda Coombs (Associate Director, Wampanoag Indigenous Program at Plimoth Plantation)
    • "Coming Full Circle from Plymouth to Patuxet: A Process of Reclaiming Culture"
  • Judy Kertész (PhD candidate, History of American Civilization, Harvard University)
    • "Harvard's Haunted Attic: The Collection and Displacement of 'Native' History"

Panel Chair: Jill Lepore (Professor of History, Harvard University)
12:00 PM - 1:15 PM
Lunch
1:30 PM - 3:30 PM

Panel IV - Local Tribal Memories: Education and Self -Determination

  • Carrie Vanderhoop (Education Director, Wampanoag Tribe of Gay Head Aquinnah)
    • "The Struggles and Successes of the Aquinnah Wampanoag: Maintaining Our Cultural
      Identity and Ancestral Homeland"
  • Joanne Dunn (Executive Director, North American Indian Center of Boston, (NAICOB))
    • "Boston's Urban Indian Community"
  • Mark Sperry (Vice Chairman Education Committee, United South and Eastern Tribes, (USET))
    • "A New England Tribal College"

Panel Chair: Carmen Lopez (Executive Director, HUNAP)
3:30 PM - 4:30 PM
Closing
 
Performance: Harvard Intertribal Indigenous Dance Troupe

Is this Caleb Cheeshahteamuck's (the first Native graduate of Harvard, Class of 1665) bag or not? This will be on exhibit only in the Thompson Room during the conference.
Image Courtesy of the Peabody Museum of Archaeology and Ethnology.

 

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Sponsors

The Provost's Office, Harvard University

The Harvard College Committee on Ethnic Studies

Harvard University Native American Program

"Cultural Agents Initiative," A Project at the David Rockefeller Center for Latin American Studies (DRCLAS), Harvard University

The Charles Warren Center for American History, Harvard University

The Program in the History of American Civilization, Harvard University



Credits: Judy Kertesz
                 Lauren Brandt