Dr. Andrew Peters

October 9, 2024
5:30 p.m.
Museum of the Southeast American Indian

Please join the Department of American Indian Studies in welcoming Associate Professor Andrew Peters, a descendant of the Yarra Yarra and Yorta Yorta peoples, as our first Native Speakers Series guest on Indigenous Peoples Day, October 9th 2023.

Dr. Peters will discuss sports, culture, and Indigenous identity in Australia. Dr. Peters, along with UNCP AIS faculty and Indigenous Studies faculty at the University of Saskatchewan, Canada, has collaborated for the past nine years on the Indigenous International Exchange Consortium (IIEC). This travel study program has brought students from each of these universities to Melbourne and Saskatchewan and will bring students from these universities to Pembroke in 2024.

Dr. Karina Walters

April 12, 2023
5:30 p.m.
James A. Thomas Hall Auditorium

Karina L. Walters, Ph.D., M.S.W., an enrolled member of the Choctaw Nation of Oklahoma, was selected as director of the NIH Tribal Health Research Office (THRO) in March 2023. Dr. Walters’ is currently a tenured full professor and the Katherine Hall Chambers Scholar at the University of Washington (UW) School of Social Work. She also serves as an adjunct professor in the Department of Global Health and the School of Public Health and is the founding director of the UW Indigenous Wellness Research Institute. 

RETURN: Native American Women Reclaim Foodways for Health and Spirit

November 21, 2019

6 p.m.

Moore Hall Auditorium

This award-winning documentary celebrates three Native women's work to improve community health and spirit through traditional foodways. Meet the film's producer/director Karen Cantor at the screening of Return.

This event is sponsored by the Teaching and Learning Center & the UNCP Food Sovereignty Cohort. Contact Alesia Cummings for details: alesia.cummings@uncp.edu.

Dr. Marshall N. Price

October 29, 2019

5:30 p.m.

Museum of the Southeast American Indian

Marshall N. Price is the Nancy Hanks Curator of Modern and Contemporary Art at the Nasher Museum of Art at Duke University and adjunct faculty in the university’s Department of Art, Art History, and Visual Studies. He received a Ph.D. in Art History from the Graduate Center, City University of New York. He has held curatorial positions at the Santa Barbara Museum of Art and the National Academy Museum, New York. Recently organized exhibitions include Nina Chanel Abney: Royal Flush, A Material Legacy: The Nancy A. Nasher and David J. Haemisegger Collection of Contemporary Art, Colour Correction: British and American Screenprints, 1967-75, and Jeffrey Gibson: Said the Pigeon to the Squirrel.



Dr. Price is curator for the first major exhibition of contemporary Native American art in the world, Art for a New Understanding: Native Voices, 1950s to Now. Dr. Price will share slides from the Native Voices installation and discuss the historical and social significance of the artwork in this show. 

Contact Dr. Mary Ann Jacobs for details: mary.jacobs@uncp.edu.

Dr. Richard A. Grounds

September 24, 2019

5:30 p.m.

Museum of the Southeast American Indian

Richard A. Grounds, Ph.D., is of Yuchi and Seminole heritage.  He is Executive Director of the Yuchi Language Project based in Sapulpa, Oklahoma, working with Yuchi Elders in creating new fluent speakers using immersion language methods.  After completing his Ph.D. in the History of Religions at Princeton Theological Seminary, he taught at St. Olaf College and in the Anthropology Department at the University of Tulsa.  He is currently the chair of the Global Indigenous Languages Caucus and served as the Expert for the North American Region at the Expert Meeting on Indigenous Languages held by the United Nations Permanent Forum on Indigenous Issues in 2016.  Dr. Grounds was the consistent voice calling for an International Year of Indigenous Languages since the beginning of the Permanent Forum on Indigenous Issues in 2002, which has now been declared by the U.N. General Assembly for 2019.  Dr. Grounds received the Humanities in Education Award from the Oklahoma Humanities Council for 2013 and is active in Picket Chapel, the local Yuchi Methodist church, and at Polecat Yuchi Ceremonial Ground. Find his web-paper on, "Indigenous Perspectives and Language Habitats," for the United Nations, Permanent Forum on Indigenous Issues, (2016) at the U.N. website: https://www.un.org/development/desa/indigenouspeoples/meetings-and-workshops/8109-2.html. Work on language revitalization by Dr. Grounds appears on the website OurMotherTongues.org and on YuchiLanguage.org.

This talk is sponsored by the American Indian Studies Department’s Native American Speakers Series and the Teaching and Learning Center.  Contact Dr. Jane Haladay for details: haladayj@uncp.edu.

Dr. John E. Charlton

March 25, 2019

6:00 p.m.

HSCI 117

John E. Charlton, DMin, is a Registered Clinical Counsellor with the British Columbia Association of Clinical Counsellors and Publisher of JCharlton Publishing Ltd whose mandate is to put forward, within the public arena, critically informed debate pertaining to Indigenous and Social Justice issues. Dr. Charlton serves as Managing Editor for the peer-reviewed journal Indigeneity & Critical Theorizing. Dr. Charlton earned his BA and BSc from Trent University, his MTS from Queen’s University at Kingston, his MPS from the University of Toronto, his MA from Yorkville University, and his doctorate from Providence Theological Seminary.

Dr. Charlton's presentation will examine how aggressive encounters –bias-filled interactions with dominant society – occur when Indigenous women in Canada speak in opposition to injustice, and where aggressors respond out of White fragility – the mainstreams inability to tolerate racial stress – with the shifting of attention away from their underlying acts by deflecting blame onto Indigenous women. Using a historical and intersectional analysis, this presentation will examine how a population health approach – the focus on improving health status through action directed toward the health of an entire population rather than individuals – might mitigate such projection of displaced blame and thereby lowering occurrences of aggressive encounters.

Presented by: Dr. John E. Charlton.  The written material is co-authored by: John E. Charlton, DMin (Publisher of JCharlton Publishing Ltd., and Registered Clinical Counsellor, BC Association of Clinical Counsellors) and Sharon L. Acoose, PhD (Professor of Indigenous Social Work, First Nations University of Canada, and Member of the Sakimay First Nation).

This event is sponsored by the Department of American Indian Studies, the Southeast American Indian Studies Program and the Office of Academic Affairs.

Chef Sean Sherman

November 7, 2018

6:00 p.m.

Museum of the Southeast American Indian

Chef Sean Sherman, Oglala Lakota, born in Pine Ridge, SD, has been cooking across the US and Mexico over the past 30 years, and has become renowned nationally and internationally in the culinary movement of indigenous foods. His main focus has been on the revitalization and evolution of indigenous foods systems throughout North America. Chef Sean has studied on his own extensively to determine the foundations of these food systems to gain a full understanding of bringing back a sense of Native American cuisine to today’s world. In 2014, he opened the business titled, The Sioux Chef as a caterer and food educator in the Minneapolis/Saint Paul area.  He and his business partner Dana Thompson also designed and opened the Tatanka Truck, which featured pre-contact foods of the Dakota and Minnesota territories.  

In October 2017, Sean was able to perform the first decolonized dinner at the James Beard House in Manhattan along with his team. His first book, The Sioux Chef’s Indigenous Kitchen, was awarded the James Beard medal for Best American Cookbook for 2018 and was chosen one of the top ten cookbooks of 2017 by the LA Times, San Francisco Chronicle as well as the Smithsonian Magazine. This year, Chef Sean was selected as a Bush Fellow. The Sioux Chef team of twelve people continues with their mission to help educate and make indigenous foods more accessible to as many communities as possible through the recently founded nonprofit North American Traditional Indigenous Food Systems (NATIFS). Learn more at www.natifs.org. Chef Sean's cookbook will be available for purchase and signing at the event.

Chef Sean will give a short cooking demonstration in the dining hall and the dishes will be served at Honoring Native Foodways.

This event is sponsored by the Department of American Indian Studies, the Museum of the Southeast American Indian, the Southeast American Indian Studies Program and the Office of Academic Affairs.

Heather L. McMillan Nakai

October 25, 2017

6:00 p.m.

Museum of the Southeast American Indian

Heather L. McMillan Nakai is an enrolled member of the Lumbee Tribe of North Carolina. Heather received her A.B. from Dartmouth College in History and Native American Studies and J.D. from the University of California at Los Angeles with a concentration in Indian law and corporate law. Heather is licensed to practice law in North Carolina and is currently a Staff Attorney at the National Indian Gaming Commission where she serves as the counsel for the Oklahoma City Region. In her personal capacity, Heather is engaged in litigation against the United States seeking enforcement of individual Indian rights as her individual effort to correct unjust treatment of Lumbee people.

This event is sponsored by the Department of American Indian Studies, the Museum of the Southeast American Indian, the Southeast American Indian Studies Program and the Office of Academic Affairs. For more information, email ais@uncp.edu, or call 910.521.6266.

Dr. Carter Meland

September 25, 2017

6:00 p.m.

Museum of the Southeast American Indian

A tall, left-handed man of White Earth Anishinaabe heritage, a father of two and spouse of one, Carter Meland was born in Minneapolis, Minnesota, lives in Minneapolis, Minnesota, teaches in Minneapolis, Minnesota, and writes in—and sometimes about—Minneapolis, Minnesota.

Dr. Meland received his Ph.D. in American Studies with a thesis that examined the role of trickster figures in the works of contemporary Native novelists, and since then he has gone on to publish articles, stories, and poems in journals and books like Studies in American Indian Literatures, Yellow Medicine Review, Seeing Red: Hollywood’s Pixeled Skins, and Sudden Storm: A Wendigo Reader. He has taught in the Department of American Indian Studies at the University of Minnesota’s Twin Cities campus since the fall of 1999.

Through reflection and engagement with the values and spirits embedded in Anishinaabe teachings, his fiction and essays explore questions about what it means to have Anishinaabe heritage, as well as examining the lives and perspectives of other-than-human beings like Misaabe (a/k/a Sasquatch) and the cannibalistic wiindigoo. In his work, Meland wonders what the world would look like if the ethical and ecological values found in the teachings of Indigenous peoples were moved to the center of our discussions of what we want our society to become, but he also knows that this ideal is not worth a good gosh darn if it’s not set within a compelling narrative. From beginning to end, he strives to tell good, emotionally resonant stories. His recently published novel, Stories for a Lost Child, explores these themes and ideas through a moving coming-of-age story about a teenaged girl seeking to understand what it means to be Anishinaabe.

This event is sponsored by the Department of American Indian Studies, the Museum of the Southeast American Indian, the Southeast American Indian Studies Program and the Office of Academic Affairs. Dr. Meland's books will be available for purchase and signing at the event. For more information, email ais@uncp.edu, or call 910.521.6266.

Professor Susan Page

March 28, 2017

7:00 p.m.

Museum of the Southeast American Indian

Professor Susan Page is an Aboriginal academic whose research focuses on Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples’ experience of learning and academic work in higher education and student learning in Indigenous Studies. Her current position is Professor in the Centre for the Advancement of Indigenous Knowledges, where she is collaborating on a university wide Indigenous Graduate Attribute project. Early in her academic career, Susan was awarded a university Excellence in Teaching Award (University of Sydney). Susan’s current Australian Research Council funded research (with Professor Michelle Trudgett and Dr Neil Harrison) seeks to create a model of best practice for the supervision of Indigenous doctoral students. Other recent research includes, examining Indigenous student engagement in Australasian Universities, a project to explore student learning in undergraduate Indigenous Studies, investigating Education curricula inclusive of Darug knowledge traditions and examining the roles of Indigenous academics in Australian Universities. Susan is a Director of the National Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Higher Education Consortium (Aboriginal Corporation).

Complex Classrooms: culture, cognition and community in Indigenous Studies: In Australian universities Indigenous Studies is increasingly taught by Indigenous Australian faculty to largely non-Indigenous students from a variety of ethnic and social backgrounds. Teachers and learners find themselves in classrooms that can be likened to what Nakata calls the ‘cultural interface’ – the space of tension and negotiation where Indigenous and Western Knowledges meet. Weaving together threads from three research projects this presentation will illuminate the perspectives of faculty and students, bringing into sharper focus ideas familiar – but sometimes fleeting – to many Indigenous Studies academics. The presentation will also touch on the particular perspectives of Indigenous students. Finally two key concepts of the cultural interface, agential involvement and shaping the future, will be used to cast a fresh light on our shared experiences in culturally and cognitively complex classrooms.

This event is sponsored by PNC Bank, a member of The PNC Financial Services Group, Inc.. Other sponsors include the Department of American Indian Studies, Museum of the Southeast American Indian, the Southeast American Indian Studies Program and the Office of Academic Affairs. For more information, email ais@uncp.edu, or call 910.521.6266.

Dr. Ryan Emanuel

January 26, 2017

7:00 p.m.

Museum of the Southeast American Indian

Ryan Eugene Emanuel is Associate Professor and University Faculty Scholar in the Department of Forestry and Environmental Resources at NC State University. He is an enrolled member of the Lumbee Tribe with family in the Sandy Plains and Saddletree communities. Ryan leads an active research team at NC State that uses fieldwork, remote sensing, and computer models to understand how water and natural ecosystems interact with one another and with society. His work is supported by the National Science Foundation, the US Department of Agriculture, and other organizations. Ryan holds a PhD and MS in Environmental Sciences from the University of Virginia, and he holds a BS in Geology from Duke University. Ryan has served on the NC Commission of Indian Affairs’ Environmental Justice Committee, North Carolina’s State Advisory Council on Indian Education, and Wake County’s Indian Education Parent Committee. He co-advises the American Indian Science and Engineering Society (AISES) chapter at NC State, and he received a national community service award from AISES for his work with American Indian students. Ryan lives in Raleigh with his family.

Dr. Emanuel's presentation, Water is Life: An Indigenous Response to Water Challenges in the Lumbee World and Beyond, focuses on both sacred and the scientific aspects of water for Lumbee people and for other indigenous peoples of the region. To indigenous peoples, water is more than a resource to be consumed; it is also a sacred part of culture, imbued with symbolism and significance. Indigenous peoples observe the sanctity of water in different ways and often hold longstanding cultural attachments to specific rivers, springs, or other waters. With the recent national spotlight focused on the Standing Rock Sioux Tribe and their opposition to the Dakota Access Pipeline, ideas about the sanctity of water are entering mainstream thought and dialogue. At the same time, devastating floods in the wake of Hurricane Matthew reminds us of the dual nature of water: life giving and sustaining on one hand, and life destroying on the other. After discussing the historical and cultural significance of water, Dr. Emanuel will outline modern-day threats to the quality and quantity of water resources in and around the Lumbee River basin. These threats, which range from industrial water pollution and population growth to climate change, are complicated by social and political issues, here at home and on the national stage. How the Lumbee and other tribes respond to these threats will determine whether they are able to maintain cultural ties to water for future generations. The presentation concludes with thoughts on what a culturally motivated response might look like for the Lumbee and for other tribes.

This event is sponsored by PNC Bank, a member of The PNC Financial Services Group, Inc.. Other sponsors include the Department of American Indian Studies, Museum of the Southeast American Indian, the Southeast American Indian Studies Program and the Office of Academic Affairs. For more information, email ais@uncp.edu, or call 910.521.6266.

Unlocking Silent Histories and Maya Traditions Foundation

September 20, 2016

7:00 p.m.

University Center Annex

This is a unique opportunity to celebrate the work of Unlocking Silent Histories youth filmmakers and MTF weavers as they celebrate and share their Maya identities, resilience, knowledge, and traditions.

Our Guatemalan Maya guests are also looking forward to learning more about Indigenous history and life in North Carolina. The new perspectives and knowledge that our Maya colleagues gain during their U.S. stay will ultimately translate to their continued work, particularly with new filmmakers in their communities. Don’t miss this unique opportunity to witness Maya culture expressed through youth-produced documentaries and traditional weaving practices, presented and demonstrated by participants in these two organizations.

About the organizations:

USH Youth-Produced Documentaries

Unlocking Silent Histories, founded in 2013, engages youth in a form of participatory video ethnography program, where Indigenous youth explore their communities, traditions, and histories, research that later materializes as short films that express their worlds through their unique cultural perspective. USH employs youth to lead this charge. Program leaders Carmen, Carlos, and Chema will present their films, the films of their students, and discuss their role in expanding USH to 9 Maya communities in Sololá, Guatemala.

“We are not professional filmmakers,” says Carlos, the USH Guatemala Program Manager, “the importance of our work is that each of our students create something that emerges from their heart.”

MTF Artisans

Maya Traditions Foundations, leverages traditional Maya heritage and art, connecting female artisans with national and international markets committed to the Fair Trade Principles. Recognized as one of the early leaders in the Fair Trade model, Maya Traditions Foundation now works with over 120 indigenous women, providing quality textile-based products around the world. Representatives from three of these communities, Cecilia, Elena, and Matea will demonstrate the traditional practices of backstrap weaving and jaspe.

“"I want the audience to learn a little bit of my language–K’iche, I want to teach them how we use traditional dress in my town and why it is important. Sharing backstrap weaving, I hope they are able to learn more about our ancestral knowledge as Maya people."

The Native American Speakers Series is supported by the Department of American Indian Studies, the Southeast American Indian Studies Program, Office of Academic Affairs and PNC Bank. For more information, contact Dr. Jane Haladay at haladayj@uncp.edu.

Tanaya Winder

April 19, 2016

7:00 p.m.

Museum of the Southeast American Indian

Tanaya Winder is from the Southern Ute, Duckwater Shoshone, and Pyramid Lake Paiute Nations. A poet, writer, artist, and educator she writes and teaches about the expressions of love—self-love, intimate love, social love, community love, and universal love.

Winner of the 2010 A Room of Her Own Foundation’s Orlando prize in poetry, Winder has published in Cutthroat, Adobe Walls, Superstition Review, Drunkenboat and Kweli. She is co-editor of Soul Talk, Song Language with Joy Harjo (Wesleyan Univ. Press) and founding editor of As/Us: A Space for Women of the

World, a literary journal for indigenous women, founded in Albuquerque. Words Like Love is her first full length poetry collection (West End Press, 2015).

Winder holds a BA in English from Stanford University and a MFA in Creative Writing from the University of New Mexico (UNM). She guest lectures and teaches creative writing workshops at high schools and universities internationally and has taught at Stanford, University of Colorado-Boulder, and UNM, where she is adjunct professor in the Chicano/a Studies Department. Winder is Director of UC-Boulder’s Upward Bound Program, which services 103 Native American youth from 8 states, 22 high schools, and 12 reservations across the country.

An active performer and champion of her peers, Winder founded a management company for indigenous artists, Dream Warriors, which represents Mic Jordan, Tall Paul, and Frank Waln. Winder’s own poems were recently performed by the Poetic Theater Productions Presents Company in NYC.

She was Albuquerque’s Local Poets Guild Program Coordinator and has been a featured poet at Sunday Chatter, 516 Arts, on KNME’s Colores program, and as a TEDXABQ speaker for her popular talk, “Igniting Healing” (bit.ly/1IsMLuI). Read more writing and find events @tanayawinder.wordpress.com and find her on Twitter @a_girl_on_fire. Photo by Smitten & Swoon Photography.

This event is sponsored by PNC Bank, a member of The PNC Financial Services Group, Inc.. Other sponsors include the Department of American Indian Studies, Museum of the Southeast American Indian, the Southeast American Indian Studies Program and the Office of Academic Affairs. For more information, email ais@uncp.edu, or call 910.521.6266.

Dr. Lois Ellen Frank

October 27, 2015

7:00 p.m.

Museum of the Southeast American Indian

A Santa Fe, New Mexico based award winning chef, author, Native foods historian, culinary anthropologist, and photographer, Lois Ellen Frank (Kiowa and Sephardic) was born and raised on Long Island, New York with her father’s side of the family and her first career experiences were as a professional cook in the prestigious Hamptons out of Eastern, Long Island. She was also an organic gardener helping to grow produce for local restaurants.

Lois has spent over 25 years documenting foods and lifeways of Native American tribes from the Southwest and regions throughout the Americas. This lengthy immersion in Native American communities culminated in her book, Foods of the Southwest Indian Nations, featuring traditional and contemporary recipes, which won her the James Beard Award in the Americana category.

Lois received her Master of Arts in Cultural Anthropology from the University of New Mexico in May of 2000 where she focused on the importance of corn as a common thread to all Indigenous tribes throughout the Americas. She received her Ph.D. at the University of New Mexico, in July 2011.

In 2007, Dr. Frank started a Native American Cuisine catering company named Red Mesa www.redmesacuisine.com. Red Mesa Cuisine is very unique in that it combines Native American Cuisine and Culture by providing patrons with an educational lecture on the history of the foods from the Southwest Indian Nations before they eat from a two to twelve course meal that the two chefs, Frank, (Kiowa) & Whitewater, (Diné/Navajo) serve and prepare. This gives patrons a unique fine-dining experience with ancestral foods with a modern twist that is unlike anything anywhere in the United States.

She continues to be involved in research on foods, including medicinal and spiritual plants, as well as working on projects focusing on the importance of traditional foods amongst Indigenous Peoples of the Americas, as sustenance as well as their uses ritually.

This event is sponsored by PNC Bank, a member of The PNC Financial Services Group, Inc.. Other sponsors include the Department of American Indian Studies, Museum of the Southeast American Indian, the Southeast American Indian Studies Program and the Office of Academic Affairs. For more information, email ais@uncp.edu, or call 910.521.6266.

Spirit Wing

January 23, 2015

7 p.m.

Moore Hall Auditorium

Admission is free

The music of Spirit Wing brings its unique brand of Native American roots music to the University of North Carolina at Pembroke on Friday, January 23, at 7 p.m. in Moore Hall Auditorium.

The performance is part of the Native American Speakers Series and admission is free and open to the public.

Husband and wife recording artists Barry Lee (Munsee Tribe) and Barbara Christy (Seneca/Munsee) stop for a one-night-only, coffeehouse-style performance. Spirit Wing, a six-time Native American Music Award (NAMMY) nominee, has appeared at many Native American festivals throughout the U.S. Their songs include “To Walk in Beauty” and “When the Buffalo Come Back.”

Spirit Wing’s music originates from the folk-acoustic tradition with Native songs that date back hundreds of years. Christy (vocals, flute, percussion) and Lee (vocals, guitar) invite audiences to join them in their traditional social dances of the Eastern Woodlands Indians.

Spirit Wing’s impassioned performances show their intense respect for their people and the history of Native Americans. They are one of the most popular Native American acts in the Middle Atlantic states. Their musical tours have taken them from powwows in Colorado to concerts in the eastern United States.

Dr. Orin Starn

November 19, 2014

5:30 p.m.

Moore Hall Auditorium

Dr. Orin Starn’s presentation is titled “Braves, Seminoles, Indians, R--s….The Indian Mascot Controversy.” The recent protests against the name of the Washington football team have pushed the Indian mascot controversy onto the front pages. Why do American sports teams have names like Braves, Seminoles, and Indians in the first place? Is this practice racist, or at least wrong? Will it continue? This talk will explore these issues and what they tell us about Native Americans and U.S. society today and in the past.

Dr. Starn is a professor of Cultural Anthropology at Duke University. He has served as faculty advisor to Duke’s Native American Student Association and is the author of many books about native culture and politics, including the award-winning Ishi’s Brain: In Search of America’s Last “Wild” Indian (2005, W.W. Norton & Company). He has a Ph.D. and M.A. from Stanford University and a B.A. from the University of Chicago.

Dr. Starn is an anthropologist, writer, and occasional journalist. Early in his career he worked for many years in Peru, and is lead editor of the popular The Peru Reader as well authoring his own book Nightwatch about Andean village organizing. Starn’s Ishi’s Brain chronicles the life and legend of the last survivor of California’s Yahi tribe. More recently, Starn has written and taught about sports and society. His latest book, The Passion of Tiger Woods, examines the superstar golfer’s place in American society and culture. Starn is also the co-editor of Indigenous Experience Today about the history and politics of indigenous rights organizing. His op-ed pieces have run in the Los Angeles Times, the Huffington Post, and other outlets, and he has appeared on NPR, ESPN and many other radio and tv programs. Starn has won Duke University’s highest undergraduate teaching award. His newest research projects focus on life in Peru and the experience of Latina housecleaners in North Carolina.

For more information, contact Lawrence T. Locklear at lawrence.locklear@uncp.edu, 910.775.4579 or visit www.uncp.edu/ais.

Glenn Roberts

October 14, 2014

5 p.m.

Oxendine Science Building, room 3256

Roberts’ presentation, titled "Repatriating Heirloom Grains in the Native Southeast," will discuss the histories of and possibilities for reintroducing heritage rice and grains to farms and tables in the Pembroke area and throughout the Southeast.

After a long career in historic restoration and hospitality design, Roberts sold everything he owned to found Anson Mills in 1998 in Charleston, South Carolina. Roberts had a goal to reintroduce ingredients of the Antebellum Southern pantry to Southeastern foodways, and he chose to grow and mill organic heirloom rice, corn and wheat for chefs in the Southeast. These ingredients are fundamental to the fabled Antebellum Rice Kitchen cuisine of Lowcountry Carolina and Georgia, a cuisine that utilizes many traditional American Indian foods.

Today Anson Mills produces artisan organic heirloom grain, legume, and oil seed ingredients for chefs and home cooks worldwide, and provides pro bono seedsmanship to the growing community of rice farmers along the Southern Atlantic Coast. The following PBS episode of "A Chef's Life" features Glenn and Anson Mills http://www.pbs.org/video/2365109698/.

A founding member of the Fellowship of Farmers, Artisans and Chefs, Roberts is also president of the Carolina Gold Rice Foundation, recipient of the Artisan of the Year Award from

Bon Appetite magazine, the Food Arts Silver Spoon Award and the National Pathfinder Award from Chefs Collaborative.

His work with soil, seeds and cuisine is featured in Dan Barber’s Third Plate, David Sax’s The Tastemakers and Sean Brock’s Heritage.

For more information, contact Dr. Jane Haladay in AIS at haladayj@uncp.edu, 910.521.6485 or visit www.uncp.edu/ais.

Tanaya Winder

September 11, 2014

5:00-6:00 p.m.

Native American Resource Center

Tanaya Winder is a poet, writer, artist, and educator from the Southern Ute, Duckwater Shoshone, and Pyramid Lake Paiute Nations. A winner of the 2010 A Room Of Her Own Foundation’s Orlando prize in poetry, her work has appeared or is forthcoming in Cutthroat magazine, Adobe Walls, Superstition Review, Drunkenboat and Kweli among others. Her poems from her manuscript “Love in a Time of Blood Quantum” were produced and performed by the Poetic Theater Productions Presents Company in NYC. Tanaya has taught writing courses at Stanford University, UC-Boulder, and the University of New Mexico. She has a BA in English from Stanford University and a MFA in creative writing from UNM. She is a co-founder and editor-in-chief of As/Us: A Space for Women of the World. Tanaya guest lectures and teaches creative writing workshops at high schools and universities internationally.

All members of the campus and local communities are welcome to attend this free public event, which is sponsored by the Department of American Indian Studies, Southeast American Indian Studies Program, Native American Resource Center and the Office of Academic Affairs.

For more information, contact Dr. Jane Haladay in AIS at haladayj@uncp.edu or 910.521.6485.

Dr. Walter Echo-Hawk

February 20, 2014

7 p.m.

University Center Annex

Walter Echo-Hawk (Pawnee) is a Native American speaker, author, and attorney. Throughout his distinguished legal career, he has worked to protect the legal, political, property, cultural, and human rights of Indian tribes and Native peoples. An articulate and experienced indigenous rights activist, Echo-Hawk delivers keynote speeches and lectures on a wide variety of indigenous topics involving Native arts and cultures, indigenous history, federal Indian law, religious freedom, environmental protection, Native American cosmology, and human rights.

Please join us for an evening with Dr. Echo-Hawk as he discusses his powerful new book, In the Light of Justice: The Rise of Human Rights in Native America & the UN Declaration of the Rights of Indigenous Peoples, which examines the proposition that Native American rights are inalienable human rights. In the Light of Justiceurges Indian Country to stride toward the human rights framework created by the UN Declaration of the Rights of Indigenous Peoples ("UNDRIP"). Relying on atonement and forgiveness traditions, it asks the United States to heal wounds of the past and create a more just society by implementing the UNDRIP.

All members of the campus and local communities are welcome to attend this free public event, which is sponsored by the Department of American Indian Studies and the Office of Academic Affairs.

For more information, contact Dr. Jane Haladay in AIS at haladayj@uncp.edu or 910.521.6485.

Dr. Brenda J. Child

February 12, 2013

7:00 p.m.

Health Sciences Building 117

Brenda J. Child is an associate professor in the Department of American Studies at the University of Minnesota. She received her PhD in History at the University of Iowa and was a Katrin Lamon Fellow at the School of American Research, Santa Fe, New Mexico. Her book, Boarding School Seasons: American Indian Families, 1900-1940 (University of Nebraska, 1998), won the North American Indian Prose Award. Child was a consultant to the exhibit, “Remembering Our Indian School Days” at the Heard Museum in Phoenix, Arizona and co-author of the book that accompanied the exhibit, Away From Home (Heard, 2000). The exhibit will travel to the National Museum of the American Indian in 2014. Child’s newest book is Holding Our World Together: Ojibwe Women and the Survival of Community (Viking/Penguin, 2012). She is a board member of the Minnesota Historical Society and will join the Board of Trustees of the National Museum of the American Indian at the Smithsonian in 2013. At the University of Minnesota, she was a recipient of the President’s Award for Outstanding Community Service and served as Chair of the Department of American Indian Studies (2009-12). She is also part of a research group that developed a new digital humanities project, the Ojibwe People’s Dictionary, which launched as a website in 2012. Child was born on the Red Lake Ojibwe Reservation in northern Minnesota where she is a citizen. She resides with her family in Saint Paul and Bemidji, Minnesota.

This event is sponsored by the Department of American Indian Studies, Native American Resource Center, and the Office of Academic Affairs. It is free and open to the public. Dr. Child's books will be available for purchase and for her to sign at the event. For more information, contact Dr. Mary Ann Jacobs at mary.jacobs@uncp.edu.

Dr. Kahente Horn-Miller

March 19, 2013

7:00 p.m.

Native American Resource Center

Kahente Horn-Miller holds a PhD in the Humanities from Concordia University (2009). She is currently the Coordinator for the Kahnawà:ke Legislative Coordinating Commission which oversees the Community Decision Making Process, the process used by the Kahnawà:ke community to make its laws. Along with her community work, she continues to write and speak on issues relevant to Indigenous peoples in the areas of membership, citizenship, adoption, women’s issues, consensus-based decision making, governance, colonization, the Mohawk Warrior Flag, Sky Woman, and Indigenous womanism. She also teaches part-time both at Concordia University and McGill University. She is the author of journal articles and book chapters on these same topics. As a mother to four daughters and a member of the Bear Clan, she is active in the traditional community of Kahnawà:ke.

This event is sponsored by the Department of American Indian Studies, Native American Resource Center, Office of Academic Affairs, Department of History, and the Teaching and Learning Center. It is free and open to the public. For more information, contact Dr. Rose Stremlau at rose.stremlau@uncp.edu or Dr. Jane Haladay at haladayj@uncp.edu.

Dr. Edward C. Valandra

April 18, 2013

5:30 p.m.

Berea Baptist Church Fellowship Hall

Dr. Valandra, who is Sicangu Titunwan, was born and raised on the Rosebud Sioux Reservation. He received his Ph.D. in American Studies from SUNY-Buffalo and has taught at both Native and non-Native colleges and universities throughout the United States. He has served as Chair of Native Studies at the University of South Dakota, where he created the current program’s curriculum. Please join Dr. Valandra, members of the UNCP Native American Student Movement, and UNCP American Indian Studies faculty for a casual, open, respectful, and honest conversation on the state of American Indian/Native American/Native Studies programs today, 44 years after the first program began in the United States. How have these programs served Native communities and students, and what work still needs to be done?

All members of the campus and local communities are welcome to attend this free public event, which is sponsored by the Office of Academic Affairs. This event will include a potluck supper: please bring a dish to share with at least four people if possible. For more information, contact Dr. Jane Haladay in AIS at haladayj@uncp.edu (910-521-6485), or Native American Student Movement members LeAnn Strickland lrs010@bravemail.uncp.edu, Josh Lane jrl024@bravemail.uncp.edu, and Layla Locklear lrl009@bravemail.uncp.edu.

Winona LaDuke

September 19, 2013

7:00 p.m.

The Regional Center at COMtech

Winona LaDuke (Anishinaabe) is a graduate of Harvard and Antioch Universities. LaDuke is a founder of Honor the Earth, a national advocacy group encouraging public support and funding for native environmental groups. With Honor the Earth, she works nationally and internationally on issues of climate change, renewable energy, sustainable development, food systems and environmental justice. LaDuke is the author of a number of non-fiction titles including All Our Relations, The Winona LaDuke Reader, Recovering the Sacred: the Power of Naming and Claiming, Food is Medicine: Recovering Traditional Foods to Heal the People and her latest, The Militarization of Indian Country. She has also penned a work of fiction, Last Standing Woman, and a children's book, In the Sugarbush. LaDuke served as Ralph Nader's vice-presidential running mate on the Green Party ticket in the 1996 and 2000 presidential elections. Outspoken, engaging, and unflaggingly dedicated to matters of ecological sustainability, Winona LaDuke is a powerful speaker who inspires her audiences to action and engagement.

This event is sponsored by the Department of American Indian Studies, American Indian Women of Proud Nations Organization, and the Office of Academic Affairs. It is free and open to the public. Ms. LaDuke's books will be available for purchase and for her to sign at the event. For more information, contact Dr. Mary Ann Jacobs at mary.jacobs@uncp.edu.

Jim Northrup, Chibenesi indigoo Ojibwemong

February 21, 2012

7:00 p.m.

University Center Annex

Jim Northrup is an Anishinaabe author, performer, and satirist from the Fond du Lac Indian reservation in Minnesota. His syndicated column, the Fond du Lac Follies, won the award for the best column by the Native American Journalists Association in 1999. He also has won awards for his autobiographies, which use humor to discuss and heal the darker sides of life, including surviving abuse at a government boarding school and PTSD from his service in the Marines during the Vietnam War. Mr. Northrup will read from his most recent book, Anishinaabe Syndicated, A View From The Rez, released in 2011, and talk about his current project, a work of fiction entitled Dirty Copper.

This event is sponsored by the Department of American Indian Studies, Office of Academic Affairs, Department of History, Office of Multicultural and Minority Affairs, Office for Community & Civic Engagement, and the Teaching and Learning Center. It is free and open to the public. Mr. Northrup's books will be available for purchase and for him to sign at the event. For more information, contact Dr. Rose Stremlau at rose.stremlau@uncp.edu.

Evelina Zuni Lucero

April 28, 2011

6:30 p.m.

Multicultural Center Room 129

Evelina Zuni Lucero, Isleta/Ohkay Owingeh Pueblo, is the chair of the creative writing department at the Institute of American Indian Arts in Santa Fe, New Mexico. She is author of Night Star, Morning Star, which won the 1999 First Book Award for Fiction from the Native Writers Circle of the Americas. She co-edited Simon J. Ortiz: A Poetic Legacy of Indigenous Continuance (University of New Mexico Press, May 2009), a collection of interviews, creative pieces and critical essays focusing on the life and work of poet Simon J. Ortiz.

Ms. Lucero’s fiction has been published in various journals including the White Shell Water Place, Kenyon Review, Studies in American Indian Literatures, Oregon Literary Review, and others. Lucero has done writing residencies at the Mabel Dodge Luhan House in Taos, NM, and Hedgebrook Women Authoring Change program at Widhbey Island in Washington. She was a Civitella Ranieri Fellow at the Civitella Ranieri International Artist Center in Umbertide, Italy, in 2004. Lucero’s novel-in-progress, whose working title is Silicon Coyote, is the story of a Pueblo journalist/fiction writer in pursuit of his Story. The theme is the intersection of history, myth and the imagination. Ms. Lucero will be discussing her novel and reading from Silicon Coyote.

This event is sponsored by the Department of American Indian Studies and the Office of Academic Affairs. It is free and open to the public. Ms. Lucero's books will be available for purchase and for her to sign at the event. For more information, contact Dr. Jane Haladay at haladayj@uncp.edu.

Jack Gladstone

January 20, 2010

7:00 p.m.

University Center Annex Assembly Room

Jack Gladstone is a Native "PoetSinger" and lecturer from the Blackfeet Indian Nation of Montana. Regarded as a cultural bridge builder, he delivers programs nationally on American Indian mythology and history. In a career spanning two decades, Jack has produced fifteen critically acclaimed CD's. In 1985, Jack co-founded "Native America Speaks", an award-winning lecture series for Glacier National Park.

A former college instructor, Jack has been featured on both the Travel Channel and in USA Today magazine. Honored as a modern day warrior and bridge builder, he holds a Human Rights Award for Outstanding Community Service from Montana State University. Since 1997, Jack Gladstone has collaborated with Lloyd Maines, Grammy winning producer of the Dixie Chicks. He was also a key tribal voice providing alternate perspectives of the Lewis and Clark expedition during the recent bicentennial commemoration. In 2004, Jack narrated the Telly award winning Lewis and Clark film Confluence of Time and Courage.

This event is sponsored by the Department of American Indian Studies and the Office of Academic Affairs. It is free and open to the public. For more information, contact Dr. Jay Vest at jay.vest@uncp.edu.

MariJo Moore

January 28, 2010

7:00 p.m.

Livermore Library

MariJo Moore, of Cherokee, Irish and Dutch ancestry, is an author/artist/poet/essayist/

lecturer/editor/anthologist/publisher and creative writing workshop facilitator. She attended Tennessee State University in Nashville, Tennessee, and Lancashire Polytechnic in Preston, England, where she received a BA in Literature. She has published extensively in a variety of genres including poetry, fiction, non-fiction essays, and she has edited several collections. Her published works include: Crow Quotes; Confessions of a Madwoman (also on CD); a novel, The Diamond Doorknob (rENEGADE pLANETS pUBLISHING); Feeding the Ancient Fires: A Collection of Writings by North Carolina American Indians; The Ice Man, The First Fire, The Cherokee Little People, (children's books); Eating Fire, Tasting Blood: Breaking the Great Silence of the American Indian Holocaust; and Birthed From Scorched Hearts: Women Respond to War.

Recently, Ms. Moore was nominated as North Carolina Poet Laureate. Ms. Moore was chosen as Minority Business Person in Services for the Year, Western NC, in 2007, was selected as Wordcrafter of the Year in 2003-2004 and 2005-06 by the Wordcraft Circle of Native Writers and Storytellers. The June/July issue of Native Peoples/Indian Artists magazine honored Ms. Moore as one of the top five American Indian writers of the new century in 2000. In addition, Ms. Moore has served on the New York State Council on the Arts Literature panel, the North Carolina Humanities Council, National Caucus of Wordcraft Circle of Native Writers and Storytellers, the board of the North Carolina Writers' Network, and the Speakers' Bureau for the North Carolina Humanities Council.

Ms. Moore resides in the mountains of western North Carolina, where she writes editorials on Indigenous issues for various publications, and was a past Poetry Editor for Rapid River Arts and Literature Journal, an Asheville based publication. Her commentaries on Native issues have aired on NPR and WBAI 99.5, First Voices /Indigenous Radio in NYC. She is founder of rENEGADE pLANETS pUBLISHING, which was chosen as Publisher of the Year by Wordcraft Circle of Native Writers and Storytellers in 2001. Currently, she is working on an anthology of Indigenous authors dedicated to Vine Deloria Jr, which is entitled Unraveling the Spreading Cloth of Time: Indigenous Thoughts Concerning the Universe, and a new book of short stories, titled The Boy With Tree Growing From His Ear and Other Stories.

This event is sponsored by the Department of American Indian Studies and the Office of Academic Affairs. It is free and open to the public. Ms. Moore’s books will be available for purchase and for her to sign at the event. For more information, contact Dr. Jane Haladay at haladayj@uncp.edu.

Joy Harjo

February 18, 2010

7:00 p.m.

Moore Hall Auditorium

Joy Harjo, the incomparable “poet of music”, songwriter, sax and flute player, singer, playwright, performer and award-winning author has been performing since she left the Mvskoke Creek Tribal Nation in the late Sixties to attend high school at the Institute of American Indian Arts, where she became a member of one of the country’s first indigenous drama and dance troupes. She began writing poetry at the University of New Mexico, inspired by the call for indigenous rights in the western hemisphere, and graduated with an MFA from the famed Iowa Writers Workshop. She has received over twenty literary awards including the Lifetime Achievement Award from the Native Writers Circle of the Americas, and the William Carlos Society of America. Her seven books of poetry include

Photo: Paul Abdoo

She Had Some Horses, The Woman Who Fell From the Sky, and How We Became Human, New and Selected Poems. Born in Tulsa, Oklahoma, Ms. Harjo is a member of the Mvskoke (Creek) Nation.

Ms. Harjo has also released four award-winning CD’s of original music and performances: Letter from the End of the Twentieth Century, Native Joy for Real, and She Had Some Horses. A song from her new CD, Winding Through the Milky Way, recently won a New Mexico Music Award. She has received the Eagle Spirit Achievement Award for overall contributions in the arts, from the American Indian Film Festival and a US Artists Fellowship for 2009. She performs internationally solo and with her band Joy Harjo and the Arrow Dynamics Band (for which she sings and plays saxophone and flutes).

This event is sponsored by the Department of American Indian Studies and the Office of Academic Affairs. It is free and open to the public. Ms. Harjo’s books and CDs will be available for purchase and for her to sign at the event. For more information, contact Dr. Jane Haladay at haladayj@uncp.edu.

Philip H. Red Eagle

March 25, 2010

7:00 p.m.

Livermore Library

Philip H. Red Eagle is of Salish and Dakota ancestry and was born and raised in the Pacific Northwest. He is a published writer, canoe carver, publisher, editor, arts critic, educator, storyteller, museum curator, art gallery curator and cultural activist.

Mr. Red Eagle is one of the founders of the “Canoe Movement,” which has grown from a few canoes and fifty people in the early 1990s to over 100 canoes and over 6,000 people, annually. The success of this movement, which has come to be called Tribal Journeys, is evident not just in its rapid growth, but also in its effectiveness as a method of cultural renewal among the native peoples of the Pacific Northwest. Mr. Red Eagle has performed the canoe journey’s Copper Ring Ceremony since 1995 and makes each ring by hand. The current count is 4,500 rings given in this contract ceremony, which calls for no alcohol, no drugs, no violence and no sex during the journey. The ceremony has proven to be one of the successful elements of teaching the Canoe Way of Knowledge. The ceremony inspires both the young and old to make changes in their lives and to commit to year-round sobriety and nonviolence.

The second edition of Mr. Red Eagle’s novel, Red Earth: A Vietnam Warrior’s Journey, was published in 2007. Red Earth is written in an American style of writing called Mythical Realism. The book contains two novellas dealing primarily with the Vietnam War, Post Traumatic Stress Disorder (P.T.S.D.) and the difficulties of coming home from war. Mr. Red Eagle served in the Navy from 1967 to 1976, where he attained the rank of Petty Officer First Class as a Machinists Mate (E-6). He served onboard two destroyers on two separate West-Pac deployments to Vietnam. His service included eighteen months In-Country Vietnam up the Nha Be River as a riverboat mechanic (1970-71).

Mr. Red Eagle has two bachelor degrees from the University of Washington, Seattle: a BFA in Metal Design from the School of Art (1983) and a BA in Editorial Journalism from the School of Journalism (1987).

Mr. Red Eagle’s presentation is sponsored by the Department of American Indian Studies and the Office of Academic Affairs. It is free and open to the public. Mr. Red Eagle’s book will be available for purchase and signing at the event. For more information, contact Dr. Jane Haladay at haladayj@uncp.edu.

Please join us for a screening of "Canoe Way: the Sacred Journey" with a discussion afterward with Philip Red Eagle (Dakota/Salish), founding member of the Northwest Canoe Movement. Monday, March 22, 6:30 p.m. in the Native American Resource Center.

A description of the film from its website (http://canoeway.org/) explains that: "'Canoe Way: The Sacred Journey' documents the annual Tribal Journeys of Pacific Northwest Coast Salish people. Indigenous tribes and First Nations from Oregon, Washington, Canada, and Alaska follow their ancestral pathways through the waters of Puget Sound, Inside Passage and the Northwest Coast. Families and youth reconnect with the past and each other. Ancient songs, dances, regalia, ceremonies, and language were almost lost and are coming back. Witness first hand, through the words and images of a proud people, as they share the story of the resurgence of the cedar canoe societies – and how it has opened a spiritual path of healing through tradition."

This event is sponsored by the American Indian Studies Department and is free and open to the public. For more information, contact Dr. Jane Haladay, Assistant Professor of American Indian Studies, at haladayj@uncp.edu or (910) 521-6485.

Dr. Malinda Maynor Lowery

April 13, 2010

7:00 p.m.

Chancellor's Residence

Dr. Malinda Maynor Lowery is an assistant professor of history at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Formerly an assistant professor of history at Harvard, Lowery is a native of North Carolina and member of the Lumbee tribe. She earned a master’s degree in documentary filmmaking from Stanford University and produced three films that explore Native American cultural identity. The last of these films was an award-winning, full-length feature about Native American sacred sites and religious freedom, In the Light of Reverence, which premiered on PBS. In 2005, she completed her Ph.D. in American History at UNC -Chapel Hill. She’s the author of the upcoming Lumbee Indians in the Jim Crow South: Race, Identity, and the Making of a Nation, which will be released by UNC Press in March 2010. The book deals with the internal Lumbee tribal politics and its relationship with the federal government. Along with her research, Lowery is also active in the preservation of her tribe’s heritage through the creation of an archive of Lumbee history and the staging of the outdoor drama Strike at the Wind. The daughter of Dr. Waltz and Dr. Louise C. Maynor , Malinda is the granddaughter of Foy and Bloss Cummings of the Saint Annah community and Wayne and Lucy Maynor of the Red Banks community.

This event is sponsored by the Departments of History and American Indian Studies. It is free and open to the public. Dr. Lowery’s books will be available for purchase and signing at the event. For more information, contact Dr. Rose Stremlau at rose.stremlau@uncp.edu.

Dr. Molly McGlennen

June 7, 2010

7:00 p.m.

Native American Resource Center

Molly McGlennen was born and raised in Minneapolis, Minnesota and is of Anishinaabe and European descent. Currently, she is an Assistant Professor of English and Native American Studies at Vassar College. Holding a Ph.D. in Native American Studies and an MFA in Creative Writing, and being a poet, scholar, a new mom, and new to the East Coast, Dr. McGlennen views her poetry as a means to cross several overlapping borders in her life. Her poetry collection, Fried Fish and Flour Biscuits, is forthcoming from Salt’s Earthworks series. In this collection, she contextualizes her poems a way to preserve and translate those recipes that make up our lives, those stories that we hear in bits and pieces and never stop telling: poems, like home-cooking, continue to nourish us.

Dr. McGlennen’s scholarship and poetry have been published in journals and anthologies including Stories Through Theories/Theories Through Stories: North American Indian Writing, Storytelling, and Critique; The Salt Companion to Diane Glancy; Genocide of the Mind: New Native American Writing; Birthed From Scorched Hearts: Women Respond to War; Studies in American Indian Literatures; Shenandoah; Atlantis; Sentence; Frontiers; and To Topos Poetry International.

This event is sponsored by the Department of American Indian Studies and the Office of Academic Affairs. It is free and open to the public. Books with Dr. McGlennen’s poetry and essays will be available for purchase and for her to sign at the event. For more information, contact Dr. Jane Haladay at haladayj@uncp.edu.

Jesse Oxendine

November 11, 2008

7:00 p.m.

Native American Resource Center

Mr. Jesse Oxendine, a Lumbee from Robeson County who now lives in Charlotte, will speak about his experience as a member of the 325th Glider Infantry Regiment, 82nd Airborne Division during WWII. Mr. Oxendine experienced combat in France, Holland, Belgium, and Germany, and he participated in the liberation of Wobbelin concentration camp. After the war, Oxendine used his GI Bill to become the first Native American pharmacist in North Carolina. These days, you'll find him cheering on UNCP football. Mr. Oxendine will show a short film about his experience at Wobbelin, and then he'll discuss with the audience. The Native American Resource Center is hosting the event and the Departments of History and American Indian Studies are co-sponsoring.

Dr. Patty Loew

November 17, 2008

7:00 p.m.

Native American Resource Center

Patty Loew, a journalist, film maker, and professor, will visit UNCP on November 17th. The Departments of American Indian Studies and History and the Native American Resource Center are sponsoring a showing of Loew's new documentary Way of the Warrior, which explores the history of Native American service in the American military. The film begins at 7 pm, and Dr. Loew will answer questions after the viewing. The event will take place in the Native American Resource Center, which is the first floor of Old Main. A member of the Bad River Band of Lake Superior Ojibwe, Loew teaches at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, hosts a weekly news and public affairs program that airs on Wisconsin Public Television, and has produced several documentaries and written dozens of articles on Native issues.