[Yale-forests-reading-group] Tomorrow the 22nd: "We Are the Story, We Are the Land"
Reid L
reidhlewis91 at gmail.com
Mon Sep 21 14:42:16 EDT 2020
Fellow Yale Forests Reading Group members,
We hope you've been well over the past few weeks! Thanks to those who have
taken the time to send us feedback regarding the summer's content.
The Karuna Center for Peacebuilding, who helped organize the terrific event
with Dr. Lisa Brooks, Margaret Bruchac, and Cheryl Savageaux in August
titled "The Connecticut River Valley as Native Space," has helped organize
another event tomorrow with Larry Spotted Crow Mann: "We Are the Story, We
Are the Land." Please find more information below for what looks to be
another wonderful event.
Wishing you well,
Reid and all the Yale Forests Reading Group organizers
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Date: Fri, Sep 18, 2020 at 2:23 PM
Subject: 💬 Tues 9/22 on zoom: "We Are the Story, We Are the Land"
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Join Larry Spotted Crow Mann for this event in "Erasure & Restoration:
Understanding Past & Present in the Kwinitekw Valley's Indigenous
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*Erasure and Restoration: *
*An Exploration of Past and Present in the Kwinitekw Valley’s Indigenous
Communities*
Dear Friends,
We'd just like to remind you that this Tuesday, September 22, we're excited
to hold the second event in the “*Erasure and Restoration: An Exploration
of Past and Present in the Kwinitekw River Valley’s Indigenous Communities*
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series.
Through events facilitated by Indigenous people and non-Indigenous allies,
these workshops and dialogues will consider who the narrators of Indigenous
history are, make space for a strengths-based retelling, and analyze the
meaning and matter of relationship-building, reconciliation, land
caretaking, memory, and inclusive curricula that explore Indigenous
histories, cultures, and lived experiences.
*Though the series will largely examine the narratives of communities local
to the Kwinitekw/Connecticut River Valley, we encourage all to attend as
the impacts of colonization are not limited to this area.*
*WE ARE THE STORY, WE ARE THE LAND*
*With Larry Spotted Crow Mann*
*Tuesday, September 22, 2020 5:30-7:00pm Eastern US Time*
*The event is free and open to the public, but Zoom registration
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is
required.*
Register for 9/22 Event
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*Please note:* Our colleagues at Nolumbeka Project are holding a separate *We
Are the Story, We Are the Land *event on September 19
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These
two events build upon one another and are similar but not identical.
(Registering for one does not register you for the other.)
*ABOUT THIS EVENT - Sept. 22*
Join *Larry Spotted Crow Mann* for an engaging talk that will focus on the
spiritual, cultural and social significance of ‘Place and the Art of Story’
on the Indigenous peoples of New England. This event will highlight how a
colonial narrative has harmfully impacted both Native people and non-Native
people through a conversation that centers on the personal journey of the
survival and perseverance of Nipmuc People and their continued efforts to
share their story, while also shaping new ones for the coming
generations.
The event will close with a discussion on the many varied walks of life
that all humans come from and how those ‘different stories’ have been used
to incite fear throughout history. In Larry’s words, “We must, as human
beings, find ourselves in each other’s story and reconcile that bond with
unity, love and respect.”
RESOURCE DIGEST
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Each month of this series, we aim to share with you a “Monthly Digest” of
engaging and interactive resources—from books to videos to podcasts—that
provide some base knowledge for the themes to be unraveled through our
public events during that month.
These resources are available on our website and serve to highlight
non-traditional narratives and expand our minds beyond the textbooks many
of us grew up with.
Check out our resource list for this event!
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We hope you enjoy reading, watching, and learning from our collections and
we always invite suggestions for future digests.
*ABOUT OUR EVENT SERIES*
“Erasure and Restoration” is a lecture, workshop, and dialogue series that
explores both historical and current narratives around local Indigenous
presence, as well as the ongoing settler mindset that has contributed to
the threat and myth of erasure. Through events facilitated by Indigenous
people and non-Indigenous allies, the series will consider who the
narrators of Indigenous history are, make space for a strengths-based
retelling, and analyze the meaning and matter of relationship-building,
reconciliation, land caretaking, memory, and inclusive curricula that
explore Indigenous histories, cultures, and lived experiences.
The series, guided by an Advisory Committee of Indigenous people and
non-Indigenous allies, features educators and activists including:
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*Dr. Lisa Brooks (Leading our event on August 19th with Margaret Bruchac
and Cheryl Savageaux**)*, Professor of English and American Studies at
Amherst College and author of two books on Indigenous history in the
Northeast, “Our Beloved Kin” and “The Common Pot.”
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*Larry Spotted Crow Mann (Leading the series' upcoming event on Sept.
22)*, Award Winning Writer, Poet, Native American Cultural Educator,
Traditional Nipmuc Story Teller, Tribal Drummer/Dancer, Motivational
Speaker -Consultant on Indigenous Pedagogy
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*Stephanie Morningstar*, Co-director of the Northeast Farmers of Color
Land Trust
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and herbalist and earth worker at Sky World Apothecary & Farm
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*Dr. Ron Welburn*, UMass Amherst Professor Emeritus of 19th and 20th
century American Literatures, Native literatures, Critical Writing, and
Américas Fictions; co-founder of the Umass Amherst Certificate Program in
Native American Indian Studies.
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*Dr. James Young*, Presenter, Distinguished University Professor
Emeritus of English and Judaic & Near Eastern Studies at UMass Amherst;
Founding Director of the Institute for Holocaust, Genocide, and Memory
Studies at UMass Amherst.
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*Peter Forbes*, founder of First Light Learning Journeys, an ongoing
collaborative effort between Maine conservation organizations and Wabanaki
Tribes to expand Wabanaki access and stewardship of land.
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*Dr. Jessica Dolan*, Adjunct Faculty at University of Guelph, Grant
Writer at Native American Food Sovereignty Alliance, Cultural
Anthropologist and Ethnobiologist, with a specialization in Indigenous and
Environmental Studies.
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*Dr. Mishy Lesser*, Director for the Upstander Project and author of the
twelve-lesson Dawnland Teacher's Guide.
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And others!
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*This program is funded in part by Mass Humanities
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which receives support from the Massachusetts Cultural Council and is an
affiliate of the National Endowment for the Humanities. Additional funding
for this event series is provided by the Ellis L. Phillips Foundation
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