Central Pennsylvania Native American & Indigenous Studies Symposium

Welcome

The Symposium committee is happy to welcome you to our new event website! We're excited for our symposium line up, which includes:

• Numerous captivating talks on topics related to NAIS with undergraduates, graduates, and faculty from a number of institutions and communities.
• Panels covering topics such as: Reverberations of Colonialism and Indigeneity in PA; Native Americans and Tribal Law; Archival Interventions and Meditations; Indigenous Feminism and Visual Arts; Indigenous Peoples and Institutions; Indigenous Histories in the Susquehanna River Valley.
• A curated selection of short films from ImagineNATIVE followed by an in-person Q&A with ImagineNATIVE Executive Director and two of the filmmakers.
• A lecture by tribal law scholar Lindsay Robertson, Chickasaw Nation Endowed Chair Emeritus, Elizabeth Rule, Chickasaw Scholar & Deputy Secretary for First Nations in NY, Jacqueline Fear-Segal, Historian and Indian Boarding School scholar , and others.
• A culminating closing performance by the multi-instrumentalist and multi-media creator Frank Waln.
• And much more!

Here you are able to register for the Symposium and submit a Proposal to present to if interested. Please come back later to find a detailed schedule of events and list of presenters once the calendar the schedule has been finalized.

Maacigiraac (Thank you!) for your interest!

-CFNP Symposium Committee

This event is made possible by generous support from the Mellon Foundation.

About The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation

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