Indigenous Peoples Day Pow Wow

Description

Indigenous Peoples Day reimagines and provides a counternarrative to Columbus Day and changes a celebration of colonialism into an opportunity to reveal historical truths about the oppression of indigenous peoples in the Americas, to organize against current injustices, and to celebrate indigenous resistance. The charge to change the national holiday began in the 1990s with Berkeley, California, and South Dakota. With the introduction of the Indigenous Students at Hopkins, the Office of Multicultural Affairs began the process of providing thought-provoking programming and events to enhance the recognition of indigenous communities and our own student population.

Celebrating Indigenous Peoples Day is a new tradition at Hopkins that extends the efforts of promoting/celebrating a vital population in our community. The celebration and observance will convene with a Noon-Day Pow Wow, from noon to 2 p.m., at Keyser Quad (rain location: Levering Hall). The program will feature intertribal dances throughout the two-hour period. The partners of OMA—Indigenous Students at Hopkins, Center for American Indian Health in the Bloomberg School of Public Health, Native American Lifeline of Baltimore, and the Copper Kitchen Indigenous Eats—cater collaboratively and will produce this momentous event for the university and community. Dennis Seymour, a Native American of Eastern Band Cherokee, will talk about his experiences in Flint, Michigan, as an identified Native American.