Events and News

"A Geography of Thrones: Xultun's North Acropolis"

March 4, 4:30 p.m.

Persson Auditorium

Xultun is one of the great Classic period Maya cities of lowland Guatemala. In the course of many generations of kings and queens, an elegant city of soaring pyramids, large plazas, wide causeways, and elite residential areas rose within the central precinct. Distinct from the very dense urban zone is the Los Arboles complex, which sits isolated to the north. From 2010 to 2019, archaeologists of the San Bartolo-Xultun Project investigated the architectural form, construction phases, and activities associated with this complex. Outstanding preservation
of the penultimate phase, likely 5th century CE, revealed an extensive program of modeled plaster sculpture adorning Los Arboles’ platform and upper friezes, marking this acropolis as a sacred location associated with ancestral deities and dynastic history. In 2021, LiDAR data for the Xultun area transformed our understanding of this northern acropolis and led to the discovery of new stelae. This lecture will present a synthesis of investigations to date, as well as examine the unusual geographic context of the acropolis to better understand its role as a sacred place in Xultun’s historic and mythic identity.

Dr. Heather Hurst is an archaeologist and archaeological illustrator who works in Central America and Mexico. She received her Ph.D. in Anthropology from Yale University in 2009, completing a multi-site investigation of Maya wall paintings in the Guatemalan lowlands. Currently a Professor at Skidmore College, her research and teaching interests focus on artists’ materials and practice, mural painting, architecture, and cultural heritage preservation. Hurst has participated in twenty years of fieldwork in Mesoamerica, including research at the sites of Bonampak, Copán, Homul, Oxtotitlán, Palenque, Piedras Negras, San Bartolo, Tikal, and Xultun. Her work has been published in and and exhibited at the Met, The National Gallery of Art, and LACMA, among others.

"The Archeology of Conflict and Community in the Pre-Columbian Andes"

April, 25, 4:30 p.m.

Golden Auditorium

Andean South Americans built a dazzling array of complex societies for several thousand years before the arrival of Europeans and engaged in diverse forms of violent conflict. Conflict did not just destroy; it structured Andean communities in ways that ranged from political leadership roles and gender ideologies to understandings of group identity, territory, land, and ancestors. This paper draws on two decades of investigation of hillfort settlements (pukaras) in the Peruvian Titicaca Basin as an entry point to explore the forms of Andean community that crystallized around conflict, defense, and aggression.

Elizabeth Arkush (PhD UCLA 2005) is an archaeologist whose research in the Peruvian Andes has emphasized themes of war and violence, and their connections to political authority, community, and ideology. She has been engaged in field research in Peru since 1999. Her comparative approach to understanding warfare explores how relationships of hostility and alliance shape individual, community, and regional identities, structure settlement patterns, generate social hierarchies, and inform ritual and the performance of authority. A secondary theme lies in the intersection of paleoclimate, the progressive modification of lands for agricultural and pastoral production, and Andean sociopolitical histories. Methodologically her research relies on spatial technologies such as drone mapping, GIS analysis, and remote sensing.

"The Order Up There: Explorations into the Indigenous Cosmic History of North America"

April 7, 4:30 p.m.

Golden Auditorium

What is civilization? When do you have it, and when do you lose it? Answers to these questions come from looking up into the night sky and backward into the continent’s Indigenous history. Huastecan, Puebloan, and Mississippian peoples from Mexico north and east into the Mississippi valley were momentarily connected in the Medieval era (9th through 12th centuries CE) in ways that call aspects of western theories of history into question. The common linkage at the time was the Moon and climate change. Moving from the archaeology of Las Flores to Chaco and, especially, Cahokia, this talk considers Indigenous theories of phenomenality—recognizing the parts played by other-than-human powers in history and humanity—and seeks alternative pathways forward into our collective future.

Timothy R. Pauketat is the Director of the Illinois State Archaeological Survey, Illinois State Archaeologist, and a professor of Medieval Studies and Anthropology at the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign. Professor Pauketat has previously held positions at the University of Oklahoma and the State University of New York, Buffalo, and has published extensively on the Indigenous city of Cahokia, other Mississippian-era sites, and the cultural histories of the continent as a whole. He has written or edited 17 books, including The Archaeology of Ancient North America (Cambridge 2020), Chiefdoms and Other Archaeological Delusions (AltaMira 2007), and the forthcoming Gods of Thunder: How Climate Change, Travel, and Spirituality Reshaped Precolonial America (Oxford, 2023). His current interests include the broad relationships of global history and humanity to atmospheres, matter, and affects, with a focus on the Medieval Warm Period of North America.

" Monuemental Ceremonial Complexes at the Beginning of Maya Civilization"

April 7, 5:00 p.m.

via Zoom

Anthony Aveni’s research made significant contributions to our understanding of astronomical observations by the Maya and other Native American groups. One of the important foci of his study was the formal ceremonial complex called the E-Group assemblage, which consisted of a western pyramidal structure and an eastern elongated platform. These standardized complexes were important components of early Maya centers and may have served for solar observations or provided stages of communal rituals tied to the solar calendar. Through intensive excavations, LiDAR surveys, and high-precision radiocarbon dating, recent archaeological investigations at Ceibal, Guatemala, and Aguada Fénix, Mexico, identified E-Group assemblages dating to around 1000 BC. Their constructions correspond to the time of significant social change in the Maya lowlands, involving the adoption of ceramics and the transition to fully-sedentary lifeways. The spread of these ceremonial complexes in the Maya lowlands and the neighboring regions indicates that shared notions of time, space, and ritual played a significant role in the initial development of Maya civilization.

Takeshi Inomata is Professor at the School of Anthropology, the University of Arizona. He received a BA in archaeology and MA in cultural anthropology from the University of Tokyo, Japan, and a Ph.D. in anthropology from Vanderbilt University. After serving as Assistant Professor at Yale University, he moved to the University of Arizona. He has archaeological field experience in Japan, Peru, Honduras, Guatemala, and Mexico. He conducted investigations at the Maya centers of Aguateca and Ceibal, Guatemala, examining political organization, social change, and warfare in Maya society. He is currently directing a project in the Middle Usumacinta region, Tabasco, Mexico to explore the origins of Maya civilization.

"Daily Life and Social Status in America's First Metropolis: A View from the Center and Periphery of Teotihuacan, Mexico"

April 4, 2019, 4:30 p.m.

Golden Auditorium

Between approximately 2000-1500 years ago the monumental pre-Aztec city of Teotihuacan developed as America’s first metropolis, with a total population surpassing 100,000 and a multi-ethnic composition, featuring five or more different native language groups.  Unlike other cities of the premodern world, daily life at Teotihuacan was structured into an almost exclusive pattern of apartment living, with large multi-family residences organized into neighborhoods all arranged along a relatively standardized grid plan.  In this talk I draw on my recent excavations in the center of the city and on its southern periphery in order to probe the development of this urban organization and compare the similarities and differences in the households of Teotihuacanos who lived at different ends of the socioeconomic spectrum.  I also contextualize these issues for the present, including ongoing community-based initiatives in the periphery of the city, where archaeological concerns for site preservation in the face of contemporary urbanization of greater Mexico City need to be reconciled with community interests in establishing and growing their own households.

David M. Carballo ’95 is Associate Professor of Anthropology and Director of the Archaeology Program at Boston University.  He is the author of Obsidian and the Teotihuacan State: Weaponry and Ritual Production at the Moon Pyramid (University of Pittsburgh 2011), Urbanization and Religion in Ancient Central Mexico (Oxford 2016), and Collision of Worlds: Deep Histories of Aztec Mexico and New Spain (Oxford forthcoming), as well as edited books and many journal articles.  He will discuss the development of America’s first metropolis, Teotihuacan, especially in regard to households at the different ends of the socioeconomic spectrum.  He will also examine current community-based initiatives at the periphery of the city, where site preservation and urban growth need to be reconciled.

"Aztec Imaginaries: From the Codex Mendoza to Chicano Art"

April 5, 4:30 p.m.

Golden Auditorium

The inaugural Anthony Aveni Lecture Series speaker David Carrasco will give an illustrated lecture on three ways in which Aztec cities, with their alignments and labyrinths, were portrayed in symbolic maps by indigenous and Chicano artists. At the conclusion, Anthony Aveni will join Carrasco on stage for a conversation about three questions about Aveni's views on the Aztec imaginary.

David Carrasco is a Mexican American historian of religions with particular interest in Mesoamerican cities as symbols, and in the Mexican-American borderlands.  His work concerns issues of sacred space, postcolonial ethnography, and the practices and symbolic nature of ritual violence in comparative perspective.  He has worked with archaeologists to carry out research on the Mexican sites of Teotihuacan and Tenochtitlan.  He is the author of many books, including Religions of Mesoamerica: Cosmovision and Ceremonial Centers, Quetzalcoatl and the Irony of Empire: Myths and Prophecies in the Aztec Tradition, and City of Sacrifice: The Aztec Empire and the Role of Violence in Civilization, to list just a few, as well as articles, book chapters, and co-authored books.

47th Annual Conference of the North American Indian Women's Association

June 21–23, 2017
NAIWA is a non-profit educational and service association that seeks to promote intertribal-communications, betterment of home, family life and community, betterment of health and education, awareness of Indian cultures, and fellowship among North American Indian people. The 2017 conference theme is “Resilience: Keeping our Cultural Beliefs Alive." The program includes lectures, a film screening, workshops and other activities for NAIWA members. NAIWA members will return to campus in the fall to discuss their regional and national initiatives in a public setting.​

Santee Frazier (Cherokee Nation), Poetry Reading and Discussion of Aurum

Wednesday, March 6, 4:30 p.m.

ALANA Multi-Purpose Room

A member of the Cherokee Nation of Oklahoma, Santee Frazier earned a BFA from the Institute of American Indian Arts and an MFA from Syracuse University. His first collection of poems, Dark Thirty (2009), was published in the University of Arizona Press Sun Tracks series. Frazier’s honors include a Fall 2009 Lannan Residency Fellowship, 2011 School for Advanced Research Indigenous Writer-in-Residence,  and the 2014 Native Arts and Culture Foundation literature fellow. His second collection of poems, Aurum, was released in 2019 by The University of Arizona Press. He served as Director of the Institute of American Indian Arts MFA in Creative Writing, visiting faculty at the University of Massachusetts Amherst MFA for Poets and Writers.

Elizabeth Ellis (Peoria), "Remembering, Forgetting, and Mythologizing the Native South"

Thursday, September 21, 4:30 p.m.

ALANA Multi-Purpose Room

This talk investigates the hidden histories of the Gulf South's enduring Native nations. What happened to the many Indigenous peoples who called the Mississippi Valley home? How did they survive? And what have been the consequences of American myths that suggest all the "real" Indians are now gone?

Chris Newell (Passamaquoddy), "Collaborative Filmmaking with Chris Newell: Equitable Portrayals of Native Peoples"

Thursday, October 19, 4:15 p.m.

Golden Auditorium

This lecture will be on Chris Newell's work collaborating on film going back to his time singing with the Mystic River Singers and the Naturally Native film. The focus of the lecture is on equitable collaboration in filmmaking about Native peoples. Chris will use his experience both in front of and behind the camera in film as a backdrop. His experiences will share the conversation and will conclude with best practices for collaborating with non-Native filmmakers highlighting several films along the way and including a showing of the collaborative short, Weckuwapok (The Approaching Dawn).

Michael Odette (Wyandot), "The Huron Wyandot Sacred Space in the Detroit River Valley: Six Points and Nearby"

Catherine Tammaro, (Wyandot Seated Faithkeeper), "Time as Medicine"

Tuesday, October 24, 4:30 p.m.

ALANA Multi-Purpose Room

Elder and Council Member Michael Odette will present the details of his family history from 1200 CE to the present. Special focus will be given to the Four Fires Confederation and Wampum Belt.

Catherine Tammaro, a Toronto-born and raised multidisciplinary artist, who focuses on public installations in and around the city of Toronto, will give a talk about how Wendat/Wyandot Narratives and Indigenous Lifeways have shaped her work, from childhood onward; before she knew of her Indigenous blood. Focusing on empowering Indigenous women, Ceremony, Ancestral Memory, Time Start Teachings and other spiritual matters. Tammaro will explore what she refers to as "Energetic Signatures" and Indigenous Placekeeping through her multimedia works.

Ryan Hall, “Empire of Graft: The Reservation System, Corruption, and Westward Expansion”

March 23rd 12-1 pm,

111 Alumni Hall

Ryan Hall is an historian of the North American West, in particular Indigenous-newcomer relations and borderlands history. His current research examines the long history of corruption and theft in America's "Indian Affairs" administration and asks how forms of graft shaped U.S. westward expansion and the Indigenous experience during the nineteenth century.

Social Science Luncheon Lecture Series event

Kathryn Labelle and Catherine Tammaro (Wendat/Wandat Faith Keeper), “Wandat Women's Resistance: Empowerment Teachings Through Time”

Tuesday, March 28, 4:30 p.m.

ALANA Multi-Purpose Room 

This presentation highlights the intergenerational effects of colonialism on Wandat women, calling attention to their unique struggles and resistance over time and space. Grounded in community-engaged research, this presenation also calls attention to a collaborative model of scholarship demonstrating a new wave of history that is not just about Indigenous people but done with Indigenous people.

Sunny Dooley (Navajo/ Diné), “Diné Hozhojii Hané (Navajo Blessingway stories)”

Thursday, April 13, 4:30 p.m.

Persson Auditorium

Storytelling: Sunny Dooley is a storyteller, folklorist and cultural consultant – collecting, learning and retelling the oral tradition of the Diné Hozhojii Hané (Navajo Blessingway stories). These stories present the world view of the Diné people and details their relationship with their surroundings. She has retold these stories by oral tradition in Navajo and in English for a variety of organizations, universities, elementary schools and conferences throughout the US, Canada, Africa, Europe and Mexico including the Smithsonian Museum of the American Indian, the Denver Arts Museum, Museum of Indian Arts and Culture, the Rhode Island School of Design (RISDI) and programs sponsored by the PEW Charitable Trust.

Peter B. Jones (Onondaga Nation), The Revival of Haudenosaunee Pottery"

Thursday, September 22, 11:20 a.m.

Persson Auditorium

Jones, Onondaga Nation, Beaver Clan member, is a renowned potter and sculptor who resides on the Territory of the Seneca Nation of Indians. His pottery, which is derived from traditional Iroquois construction, is admired and collected by community members, Native American art collectors, museums across the country, and internationally. Reminiscent of early Iroquois pottery, Jones' art directly reflects the issues that impact the Haudenosaunee.

Doug George-Kanentiio, (Mohawk Nation), "How Native Boarding Schools Sparked the Indigenous Rights Movements: We, Who Were Not Crushed, Became Hell Raisers"

Thursday, September 29, 4:15 p.m.

105 Lawrence Hall

Orange Shirt Day Eve.  Doug George-Kanentiio, Akwesasne Mohawk Bear Clan member, is a residential school survivor, the recipient of residential school identification number 4-8-2-738. He was editor of Akwesasne Notes and now serves as the vice-president of the Hiawatha Institute for Indigenous Knowledge. He previously served as a trustee for the National Museum of the American Indian, is a former land claims negotiator for the Mohawk Nation and is the author of books (Iroquois on Fire, Iroquois Culture & Commentary) and articles about the Mohawk and other Haudenosaunee peoples.

Fall Harvest Festival

Friday, September 30, 2:00 p.m.

Colgate Community Garden

Featuring social dancing with Native American Singers and Dancers.

Darren Bonaparte (Mohawk Nation), "Akhtsi'a (My Older Sister), or A Lily Among Thorns: The Mohawk Repatriation of Kateri Tekakwitha"

Thursday, October 6, 11:20 a.m.

Persson Auditorium

Darren Bonaparte is a Mohawk writer, artist, and cultural historian from Akwesasne. He is the creator of the Wampum Chronicles website and author of two books, Creation & Confederation: The Living History of the Iroquois and A Lily Among Thorns:  The Mohawk Repatriation of Káteri Tekahkwí:tha.  lunch served.

Claudio Saunt, "Unworthy Republic: A History of Indian Removal, Mass Deportation, and American Exceptionalism"

Thursday, October 6, 4:30 p.m.

105 Lawrence Hall

The United States expelled eighty-thousand Indigenous Americans from their homelands in the 1830s, launching one of the first state-sponsored mass deportations in the modern era.  Claudio Saunt explores how this pivotal moment changed the lives of Native peoples, shaped the course of the American republic, and influenced other imperial powers around the world.

Sheri Beglen, (Oneida Nation), "Oneida Language Perservation"

Thursday, November 13, 11:20 a.m.

Persson Auditorium

Sheri Beglen is a Wolf Clan member of the Oneida Nation and former coordinator of the Oneida Language Preservation program,  In fall 2016 Ms. Beglen taught a FLAC (Foreign Languages Across the Curriculum) course at Colgate on Oneida Language.  She is a gifted teacher and knowledgeable Native linguist.  Her talk will include a description of language preservation at Oneida, some ethnosemantics, and basic vocabulary instruction.  lunch served.

Cooking Around the World with Nicole Carvell

Friday, November 4, 5:00 p.m.

ALANA Center

Make frybread for Navajo Tacos and blue corn cupcakes.

Friday, November 11

Haudenosaunee Basket Weaving–artist talk with Ronni-Leigh Goeman

Picker Art Gallery

12:30 pm

Join Ronni-Leigh Goeman (Onondaga) at Picker Art Gallery for a discussion of the innovative artistry of contemporary Haudenosaunee basket weaving. The artist will speak about her practice, materials, and how the history of Haudenosaunee basket-making connects to issues facing Indigenous communities today.

Angela Ferguson (Onondaga Nation), "Using Food Sovereignty to Revitalize Haudenosaunee Economy"

Thursday, November 17, 11:20 a.m.

ALANA Multipurpose Room

Angela Ferguson, Onondaga Nation Eel Clan member, is the current supervisor of the Onondaga Nation Farm, which practices aspects of Food Sovereignty for the community. She is also one of the original organizing members of Braiding the Sacred, an all-indigenous group of traditional corn growers across Turtle Island. Her many passions include Haudenosaunee Traditional Agriculture, seed caring, beekeeping, foraging, traditional cooking methods, knowledge sharing, Haudenosaunee nutrition education, youth mentorship, and traditional hide tanning.  lunch served.  Angela Ferguson will talk about how she has been using food as not only a source of nourishment and sustenance, but also as a form of currency. She has recently been trading foods (seeds, knowledge of plants) with other tribes to help continue her work of tribal food sovereignty. Gaining knowledge of different traditional foods helps both tribes, both by expanding the range of foods available and helping tribes to be less reliant on outside sources. This is especially important in times of food shortages like we have seen from the Covid pandemic.

Chris Newell (Passamaquoddy), "Forging New Paths for Educators to Engage with Indian Country"

Thursday, March 3, 4:30 p.m.

105 Lawrence Hall

Since the 19th century, the American education system has not evolved much in the way it teaches Native content. As a result, our system graduates students nationwide that lack the basic tools to engage with the complex histories and contemporary existence of Native peoples. The effect of this failure ripples outward beyond the classroom to all educational spaces including museums, media, and especially pop culture. Akomawt is the Passamaquoddy word for 'snowshoe path' and the symbol driving the mission of Akomawt Educational Initiative (AEI). Co-founder Chris Newell will talk about th ework of AEI and their success in forging new paths for educators and the system of education to engage with Native content in today's world and the benefits of this work for all students.

David Truer (Ojibwe), " Imagining Native America in the 21st Century"

Tuesday, April 12, 4:15 p.m.

Golden Auditorium

Part of the Arts and Humanities Colloquium Series. In the popular imagination Native American life ended, essentially, with the close of the frontier and the massacre at Wounded Knee Creek in 1890. But that’s not true. So what can we, and what can we know—about Native life and about America more generally—if we dismiss the premature announcement of our collective death? What have Native people been up to since we were supposed to have died off and what does that mean about our country?

Three Sisters Garden Dedication and Seed Sovereignty Lecture

Wednesday, May 4, 4:30 p.m.

Persson Auditorium

Join the ENST 390 Community Garden Team in a dedication ceremony for the rematriation of local Indigenous seeds back to the traditional land of the Oneida Nation. We will be welcoming guest speakers to discuss environmental stewardship, Indigenous food knowledge, and how the Colgate community can contribute to Indigenous food sovereignty.

Christine DeLucia, "Resisting Erasure in the Native Northeast: King Philip's War and the Remaking of History, Memory, and Place"

Thursday, September 20, 4:30 p.m.

Persson Auditorium

The Indigenous resistance movement and colonial conflict known as King Phillip's War (1675-1678) shaped the American Northeast in powerful ways, and its consequences have reverberated for more than three centuries. This presentation revisits Native American and colonial encounters before, during, and after this pivotal period, shedding new light on how and why diverse communities pursued diplomacy, peacemaking, and violence. This talk invites conversation about how the past continues to matter in the present, and the opportunities as well as challenges related to decolonization of and caretaking for meaningful lands and waters.

Robert B. Caldwell, Jr. (Choctaw-Apache), "Indigenous Peoples and Places: Mapping How the Lines are Drawn"

Monday, October 25, 11:30 a.m.

Persson Hall

This talk will address questions such as: What is indigenous space? What is a traditional cultural place? What constitutes "Indian Country" today? What is the relationship between land base and sovereignty? How has space been contested between indigenous peoples and the settler-colonial state? This talk will introduce concepts of culture areas, the mapping of languages and Nations, and will encourage the audience to think critically about maps and their place in colonization/ decolonization. 

Angela Ferguson (Onondaga Nation), "Haudeonsaunee Food: Sovereignty in Modern Times"

Thursday, November 4, 4:30 p.m.

Persson Auditorium

This discussion will relay the struggles and successes of current day Haudenosaunee agriculture, hunting and fishing, treaty rights, climate change, and practices during a global pandemic. The talk will touch on the current health and wellness of Haudenosaunee people in relation to food.

Coll Thrush, "Indigenous London: Native Travelers at the Heart of the Empire"

Monday, September 23, 4:30 p.m.

Persson Auditorium

Urban and Indigenous histories have usually been treated as though they are mutually exclusive. Coll Thrush’s work, however, has argued that the two kinds of history are in fact mutually constitutive. In this presentation, Dr. Thrush will present material from his most recent book, a history of London framed through the experiences of Indigenous children, women, and men who travelled there, willingly or otherwise, from territories that became the US, Canada, New Zealand, and Australia, beginning in the early sixteenth century and continuing into the twenty-first. An Indigenous-focused history of the imagined "centre" offers opportunities to reframe global histories of empire to disorient and disrupt colonial narratives that are literally built into the urban landscape.

Layli Long Soldier (Oglala Lakota), Living Writers Series

Thursday, October 4, 4:30 p.m.

Love Auditorium

WHEREAS by Layli Long Soldier won the 2018 Griffin Poetry Prize whose judges described it as “an intricate and urgent counter-history, a work of elegy, outrage and profound generosity.” The collection was also a finalist for the National Book Award and won the National Books Critics Circle Award. Ms. Long Soldier is the recipient of a Whiting Award as well as Lannan Literary Fellowship and a Native Arts and Cultures Foundation National Artist Fellowship. She is an adjunct professor of English at Diné College in Arizona.

Alicia Cook (Mohawk Nation), “Ononhkwashón’a – All the medicines”

Thursday, October 10, 4:30 p.m.

111 Wynn Hall

Bolivian Musician Concert

Friday, November 1, 12:00 p.m.

Colgate Memorial Chapel

Four members of Música de Maestros will be at Colgate for a two-week residency in which time, among other activities, they will teach students enrolled in ALST 204: Performing Bolivian Music how to play Bolivian indigenous wind instruments (panpipes and flutes). The musicians’ residency concludes with a concert in which students from the course will join Música de Maestros in some pieces.

Diane Schenandoah (Oneida Nation), "Diane Schenandoah: Oneida Artist and Faithkeeper"

Tuesday, November 12, 11:30 a.m.

Center for Women's Studies

As a Faithkeeeper for the Wolf Clan, the spiritul significance of her work is paramount. She explains: “Every sculpture
must depict something meaningful from my culture and reflect spiritual realities of my people. For example, my Utah alabaster stone bear entitled ‘Transformation’ represents how the bear becomes one with a bear clan person, who now is cloaked with the healing power and knowledge of medicines.” Diane says that she counts it her privilege and duty to share her culture through her sculptures and carvings.

Hugh Burnam (Mohawk Nation), "A Grandmother's Pedagogy: Learning about Haudenosaunee Student Experiences in Higher Education"

Thursday, February 7, 4:30 p.m.

Persson Auditorium

Lecture Series on Native American Education and Indigenous Ways of Knowing

Hugh Burnam, a Public Humanities Fellow of New York (2017-18), has research interests in higher education student experiences, Indigenous education, Haudenosaunee (Iroquois) language revitalization, Indigenous knowledges, Tribal Critical Race Theory, and environmental activism.  His dissertation explores Haudenosaunee identity and worldview in order to understand ways that Haudenosaunee students define Indigenous masculinity, and ways that gender affects Native student experiences in higher education.  His lecture honors Indigenous knowledge, demonstrating ways in which his Grandmother, arguably the best pie maker on “the Rez” and a retired custodian from Syracuse University, showed him how to understand, think about, and write about Haudenosaunee student experiences in higher education

Meredith McCoy (Turtle Mountain Band of Chippewa descent), "Contemporary Developments in Federal Indian Education Policy"

Monday, February 18, 4:30 p.m.

Persson Auditorium

Lecture Series on Native American Education and Indigenous Ways of Knowing

After Congress passed the Every Student Succeeds Act (ESSA) in 2015, many governmental agencies, news media, and nonprofits working with Native students praised it for its funding opportunities for language and culture programming, as well as for its new requirements for tribal consultation with state and local education agencies. However, the extent to which ESSA can right the history of assimilationist education for Indigenous students remains to be seen. This talk draws upon oral histories, participant observation, discourse analysis, and Critical Race Theory to examine how shifting intergovernmental relationships under the law may expand or constrain Native nations’ flexibility to enact their own visions for education. In the process, it demonstrates what documents related to the ESSA planning process can tell us about the hopes Native nations and state governments have for curricula, intergovernmental relations, and consultation under the new law.

Alicia A. Cook (Mohawk Nation), “Ononhkwashón’a – All the medicines”

Thursday, February 21, 4:30 p.m.

111 Wynn Hall

Alicia Cook is a Licensed Practical Nurse (LPN), as well as a Master of Traditional Medicines who works in the Akwesasne Cultural Restoration Program (ACRP) also known as Ase Tsi Tewaton (“to make new again”) of the Saint Regis Mohawk Tribe, New York.  In her practice, she integrates knowledge of the human body, herbal support, and traditional Mohawk teachings in order to assist her clients in a holistic healing process.  Ms. Cook also teaches about culturally important plants and their uses as food and medicine.  She promotes food sovereignty and aims to transfer traditional plant knowledge to younger generations in order to “carry forward the knowledge of our traditional wisdom keepers.”  She is also an activist who cultivates plants on the United Plant Savers list, as well as working towards decontamination of land in the Mohawk territory.  Ms. Cook is also focused on reviving teachings and ceremonies that strengthen women in her community.  She also travels nationally and internationally to teach about natural medicines and encourage the reintegration of traditional plant knowledge that was lost during the colonial era.

Her talk will begin with a recitation of the Haudenosaunee Thanksgiving address (words before all else) and a discussion of its cultural importance and relevance to gratitude for all natural relations.  She will also discuss the concept of reciprocity and its relationship to plant knowledge, before introducing local herbs that are safe and useful, and finally inviting attendees to sample herbal teas.

Walter Echo-Hawk (Pawnee Nation), "The Lingering 'Indian Problem' in our Democracy: Bringing Religious Liberty and Restorative Justice for First Americans"

Wednesday, February 27, 4:30 p.m.

Love Auditorium

Walter Echo-Hawk is a Native American attorney, tribal judge, author, and law professor who represents Indian tribes on important legal issues, such as treaty rights, water rights, religious freedom, prisoner rights, and repatriation issues. As an attorney at the Native American Rights Fund (NARF) for more than 35 years, Mr. Echo-Hawk was instrumental in securing passage of landmark federal laws, including the Native American Graves Protection and Repatriation Act (1990) and the American Indian Religious Freedom Act Amendments (1994). He is the co-author of Battlefields and Burial Grounds: The Indian Struggle to Protect Ancestral Graves (1994), and author of In the Courts of the Conqueror: The Ten Worst Indian Law Cases Ever Decided (2010), In the Light of Justice (2013), and his most recent book, The Sea of Grass: A Family Tale From the American Heartland (2018).  Mr. Echo-Hawk received his B.A. in Political Science from Oklahoma State University (1970) and his law degree from the University of New Mexico (1973).  He has garnered many awards and honors, including The Judge Sarah Hughes Civil Liberties Award from the Federal Bar Association; the Spirit of Excellence Award from the American Bar Association for legal work in the face of adversity; and the Civil Liberties Award from the ACLU of Oregon, among others.  He has served as a Justice of the Supreme Court of the Pawnee Nation, of which he is a member, and as a member of the Carter Center’s International Human Rights Council.  Always thought provoking and sometimes provocative, Mr. Echo-Hawk speaks extensively and appears in film and on national radio to educate the American public about the concerns of Native peoples today.  Among his film credits are the National Park Service film The Development of NAGPRA (2010) about the Native American repatriation movement, as well as A Seat at the Table (2005), Who Owns the Past? (2000), Everything has a Spirit (1993).

“The Case for Indigenous Animal Studies in Critical Education”
Kelsey Dayle John ’13 Ph.D. candidate in Cultural Foundations of Education at Syracuse University; adjunct faculty member in Diné Studies at Navajo Technical University In...
Persson Hall 27- Auditorium
Oct 11, 2018 - 4:30 p.m.

An Indigenous Response to #MeToo
Film screening & talk with Michelle Schenandoah (Oneida) and Neal Powless (Onondaga) Tuesday, October 16, 11:30 AM Center for Women’s Studies Brown Bag What does...
Center for Women's Studies Lounge
Oct 16, 2018 - 11:30 a.m.

Native American Arts & Culture Festival
Colgate’s NATIVE AMERICAN ARTS & CULTURE FESTIVAL will take place on Saturday, October 20th from 9:30 am to 5:00 pm in the Sanford Field House on Rte. 12B in Hamilton, NY. ...
Hamilton, Sanford Field House
Oct 20, 2018 - 9:30 a.m.

Laura Zanotti Lecture (`01 Alumni)
Indigenous Rights in the Anthropocene 4:30 in 27 Persson Auditorium Dr. Laura Zanotti, ’01 Associate Professor of Anthropology- Purdue University Join us for a talk that...
Persson Hall Auditorium
Nov 7, 2018 - 4:30 p.m.

How Oneida Nation Land Became Colgate
Laurence M. Hauptman (SUNY Distinguished Professor Emeritus of History) "How Oneida Nation Land Became Colgate" Lecture on the history of the transfer of land from the...
Persson Hall 27- Auditorium
Dec 5, 2018 - 4:30 p.m.

A Grandmother’s Pedagogy: Learning about Haudenosaunee Student Experiences in Higher Education
Hugh Burnam, a Public Humanities Fellow of New York (2017-18), has research interests in higher education student experiences, Indigenous education, Haudenosaunee (Iroquois)...
Persson Hall 27- Auditorium
Feb 7 - 4:30 p.m.

“Collateral Damage: How the Inherent Weaknesses of Archaeology Can Damage Native American Identity”
Eric Blinman, Director of the New Mexico Office of Archaeology Studies The pattern of colonial history in the United States Southwest has resulted in the survival of a...
Persson Hall Persson Auditorium
Feb 19, 2018 - 4:30 p.m.

Native American Storytelling with Perry Ground
Perry Ground presents traditional Native American stories about the beliefs, customs, and history of the Haudenosaunee (Iroquois) people. Perry brings his stories to life...
ALANA Cultural Center Multipurpose Room
Feb 21, 2018 - 4:30 p.m.

Art & Art History Lecture: Dawn Weleski/Conflict Kitchen
Operating seven days a week in the middle of post-industrial Pittsburgh, PA, Conflict Kitchen is a restaurant that introduces the public to countries, cultures, and people...
Little Hall 105, Golden Auditorium
Mar 21, 2018 - 4:30 p.m.

Film Screening: Smoke Signals
(dir Chris Eyre, 1998, 90 min) Based on a book by Sherman Alexie (Spokane-Coeur d'Alene) and directed by Chris Eyre (Cheyenne/Arapaho), Smoke Signals is a humorous yet...
Little Hall Golden Auditorium
Mar 22, 2018 - 7 p.m.

"From Garden Warriors to Good Seeds; Indigenizing the Local Food Movement" Lecture by Elizabeth Hoover (Brown University)
Elizabeth Hoover (Manning Assistant Professor of American Studies, Brown University) will speak about her current research, "From Garden Warriors to Good Seeds: Indigenizing...
Olin Hall Love Auditorium
Mar 29, 2018 - 4:30 p.m.

Peter B. Jones Lecture and Demonstration
Peter B. Jones will demonstrate traditional pottery methods and tools and discuss the revival of pottery among the Haudenosaunee (Iroquois) people. Jones is a highly...
ALANA Cultural Center Multipurpose Room
Apr 16, 2018 - 4:30 p.m.

Richard Frost Lecture and Book Signing
Richard Frost, Colgate Professor of History and Native American Studies Emeritus, splits his time between Hamilton, NY and Santa Fe, NM. He organized the first Santa Fe study...
Lawrence Hall Ho Lecture Room, 105
Sep 18, 2017 - 4:30 p.m.

Native American Arts & Culture Festival
Colgate's Native American Festival celebrates indigenous art, music, and dance, from North, Central and South America, with greatest participation from among members of the...
Hamilton, Sanford Field House
Oct 21, 2017 - 9:30 a.m.

Seth Holmes Lecture "Strawberries, Inequalities, and the Need for Change"
Based on five years of research in the field (including berry-picking and traveling with migrants back and forth from Oaxaca Mexico up the West Coast of the United States),...
Persson Hall 27
Oct 23, 2017 - 4:30 p.m.

Native American Women and Cultural Resistance
Wanda Wood will discuss the goals and initiatives of the North American Indian Women’s Association (NAIWA), which held its annual conference at Colgate University in June...
Center for Women's Studies Lounge
Oct 24, 2017 - 11:30am

Bolivian Musicians' Residency and Concert
Música de Maestros or "Music of the Masters" is a Bolivian ensemble founded in the 1980s by Rolando Encinas with the specific objective of researching and performing this...
Colgate Memorial Chapel
Nov 3, 2017 - 12 p.m.

Friday Night Film Series: To Brooklyn and Back: A Mohawk Journey
FILMAKER IN PERSON (dir. Reaghan Tarbell, 2008, 56 min) Filmmaker Reaghan Tarbell in person For over 50 years, the Kahnawake Mohawks of Quebec, Canada occupied a 10 square...
Little Hall 105, Golden Auditorium
Nov 10, 2017 - 5 p.m.

Film Screening: Shelley Niro (Mohawk)
In connection with its indigenous photography exhibition, Our People, Our Land, Our Images, the Picker Art Gallery and the Film and Media Studies Program, with co-sponsorship...
Little Hall 105 Golden Auditorium
Feb 21, 2017 - 7 p.m.

"Navajo Blessingway Stories” SUNNY DOOLEY (Navajo / Diné), storyteller, folklorist, cultural consultant
Organized by C. Vecsey (Religion 405) for NAST in coordination with the Arts & Humanities Colloquium. Sunny Dooley is a Navajo storyteller. She says of herself: "When I...
Lawrence Hall 105
Mar 28, 2017 - 4:15 p.m.

Artist Lecture: Hulleah + Shelley = Trouble: Solo and Duet
Artists Shelley Niro (Mohawk) and Hulleah J. Tsinhnahjinnie (Taskigi/Diné), director, C. N. Gorman Museum, and professor, Department of Native American Studies, University of...
Little Hall Golden Auditorium, 105
Mar 30, 2017 - 4:30 p.m.

The Intersection of Native American and Educational Studies
Come hear Dr. Herman Garcia, Emeritus Professor of Education at New Mexico State University and a world-renowned scholar in bilingual education, speak about his research...
McGregory Hall 101
Apr 5, 2017 - 12:15 p.m.

Anthony Aveni Retirement Reception
The Office of the President and the Office of the Dean of the Faculty invite the Colgate community to celebrate Professor Aveni on the occasion of his retirement.
Ho Science Center The Atrium
Apr 18, 2017 - 5 p.m.

Mohawk Pottery Workshop with Natasha Smoke Santiago (Part Two, Pottery Firing)
Join Artist-in-Residence Natasha Smoke Santiago for a two-part workshop on Mohawk pottery building and pit firing techniques. Pottery Building: 4:30 p.m. Tuesday, April...
Whitnall Field
Apr 29, 2017 - 10 a.m.

Gender & Sexuality in Native American Cultures with Taté Walker
Many Native American nations recognized non-binary definitions of gender and sexuality. This training details the history, stories, and language used by several prominent...
Center for Women's Studies
Sep 6, 2016 - 11:30 a.m.

Brown Bag Lunch Lecture: A Lily Among Thorns: The Mohawk Repatriation of Káteri Tekahkwí:tha
Darren Bonaparte, is a writer, artist, and storyteller from the Akwesasne Mohawk Territory. His writing has appeared in Native Americas, Aboriginal Voices, and Winds of...
Persson Hall 27A - Auditorium
Sep 21, 2016 - 12 p.m.

LASO Folk Dancing Group Inca Son
Inca Son is an acclaimed music ensemble which recreates all the color and vibrance of its Peruvian Andean homeland. It includes not only a full group of talented musicians,...
Brehmer Theater
Sep 21, 2016 - 6 p.m.

Heid E. Erdrich - Poet, Writer, and Filmmaker
Heid E. Erdrich is a poet, writer, and filmmaker. She is the author of four collections of poetry including Cell Traffic: New and Selected Poems, 2012. Her most recent book...
Lawrence Hall 105
Sep 28, 2016 - 4:30 p.m.

Murals in Context: An Iconographic Workshop on Making Meaning in Maya Art
Heather Hurst, Associate Professor of Anthropology at Skidmore College, will conduct a workshop that will compare the images and archaeological context of various Mesoamerican...
Ho Science Center 101
Oct 13, 2016 - 1:20 p.m.

Native American Arts & Culture Festival
Native American Arts & Culture Festival Indoors at the Sanford Field House Colgate's Native American Festival celebrates indigenous art, music, and dance, from North,...
Hamilton, Sanford Field House
Oct 22, 2016 - 9:30 a.m.

The Significance and the Insignificance of the Treaty of Canandaigua
Historian Michael Oberg will speak about the 1794 Treaty of Canandaigua between the Grand Council of the Six Nations of the Iroquois Confederacy and President George...
Alumni Hall 111
Oct 25, 2016 - 4:30 p.m.

Día de Los Muertos
We will have an altar so please feel free to bring anything you may want to add to it! El Día de los Muertos, or the Day of the Dead, is a special, historically-charged...
49 Broad Street – La Casa
Nov 2, 2016 - 4:30 p.m.

Eric Gansworth Lecture - Indigenous Binary Code: Cultural Survival through Adaptation and Synthesis
This title refers to the alternating white and purple colors of wampum and their indigenous meanings, as well as to Eric Gansworth’s use of wampum as a metaphor for...
Lawrence Hall 105 - Ho Lecture Room
Nov 14, 2016 - 4:30 p.m.

Peter B. Jones: The Life of an Onondaga Potter
February 10, 2016 12–1 p.m.
ALANA Cultural Center - Multipurpose Room
Brown Bag Lunch - catered by Royal India Grill. Peter B. Jones is a highly accomplished and talented artist who, during his long career, has created pottery and ceramic sculpture that is sought after by museums and collectors worldwide. The artist will demonstrate traditional pottery methods and discuss the revival of pottery among the Haudenosaunee (Iroquois) people. 

"A Life in Clay"
February 10, 2016 2:45–4 p.m.
111 Alumni Hall
Onondaga Native Peter B. Jones will present a lecture titled, "A Life in Clay." 

"Laughing Buffalo in Paris: from Family Memory to Collective Memory and Back Again"
Tuesday, March 8, 2016 4:00–5:30 p.m.
105 Lawrence Hall The Robert Ho Lecture Room
Division of the Arts and Humanities Colloquium: Scott Sandage, Associate Professor of Department of History and Director of Undergraduate Studies, Carnegie Mellon University. Co-sponsored by Department of History. Refreshments provided 4:00-4:15 PM. Lecture begins at 4:15 PM. All are welcome. 

"Documenting the Ojibwe Language: Preservation for Revitalization"
Native American Studies and Linguistics Programs present John D. Nichols, Professor Emeritus, University of Minnesota and Editor, Ojibwe People's Dictionary will give a public lecture on preserving Ojibwe Language.
April 4, 2016; 4:15 p.m.
27 Persson Hall

September 14 – November 13, 2105, Case-Geyer Library
Photo Exhibition: Then & Now: The Changing Arctic Landscape
Ken Tape
University of Alaska
Description: Climate warming during the 20th century has changed the arctic landscape, from its shrinking glaciers and thawing frozen soils to its shrubbier vegetation and novel wildlife. A truly interdisciplinary scholar and scientist, Ken Tape documents the ecological and geographical impacts of climate change on the Alaskan wilderness, which will be displayed at Colgate University.
Sponsors: Native American Studies, Environmental Studies, Colgate Arts Council, Library (providing space)

Friday, September 18, 2015, 12:15-1:30 p.m., Center for Women’s Studies
Lecture: “Geographies of Difference: Cautionary Tale from Transnational Feminist Travels”
Dr. Maylei Blackwell
Associate Professor in Chicana and Chicano Studies and Gender Studies and affiliated faculty in LGBT Studies and American Indian Studies, University of California -Los Angeles
Description: Dr. Maylei Blackwell’s transnational feminist analytics is based on accompanying indigenous women’s organizers in Mexico, feminist movements and sexual rights activists throughout Latin America, and farm worker women’s organizing and indigenous migrant activism in Oaxacalifornia. She is the author of ¡Chicana Power! Contested Histories of Feminism in the Chicano Movement. 
Sponsors: Native American Studies, Center for Women’s Studies, Latin American Studies, CORE Communities and Identities, LGBTQ Initiatives

Thursday, September 24, 4:30-6:00 p.m., Golden Auditorium, Little Hall
Lecture: “The Changing Arctic Landscape: Glaciers, Vegetation, Permafrost, and Wildlife” 
Ken Tape
University of Alaska
Description: Climate warming during the 20th century has changed the arctic landscape, from its shrinking glaciers and thawing frozen soils to its shrubbier vegetation and novel wildlife. A truly interdisciplinary scholar and scientist, Ken Tape documents the ecological and geographical impacts of climate change on the Alaskan wilderness. Tape will visit Colgate to speak about his art, science and commitment to communicating the significance of climate induced-environmental change in the Arctic, using repeat photography and other historical records from Northern Alaska to demonstrate the rate and nature of these changes. 
Sponsors: Native American Studies, Environmental Studies

Friday, September 25, 2015, 12:20-1:10p.m., Batza Room in Case-Geyer Library
Photo Exhibition: Then & Now: The Changing Arctic Landscape
Ken Tape
University of Alaska
Description: Environmental Studies Brown Bag Lecture by Ken Tape
Sponsors: Native American Studies, Environmental Studies

Saturday, October 17, 2015, 2:00p.m., Brehmer Theater
Performance: Ayazamana Music and Dance of Ecuador
Ayazamana
Description: Ayazamana, whose name in the Kichwa language means “Peaceful Rest of the Soul,”performs colorful and energetic folkloric dances from various regions of Ecuador. The dance performances include authentic indigenous music and dress from Ecuador, a multiethnic and multicultural nation. The large repertoire of dances is enhanced by many stunning changes of wardrobe, including masquerades and outfits inspired by both urban and rural settings. A narrator explains each dance.
Sponsors: Native American Student Association, Native American Studies, University Theater (providing space and equipment)

Monday, October 19, 2015, 4:15 p.m., 105 Lawrence
Lecture: "Indian Dances and the Settler Secular: Making Religion on the Reservation"
Tisa Wenger 
Yale University Divinity School
Description: Professor Wenger speaks on Native American practices and the politics of religious freedom in the US. Her lecture will explore themes addressed in her 2009 book, We Have a Religion: The 1920s Pueblo Indian Dance Controversy and American Religious Freedom, which showed how dominant conceptions of religion and religious freedom affected the Pueblo Indians of New Mexico as they sought to protect their religious ceremonies from government suppression. Ms. Wenger will also visit Prof. Reinbold’s classes.
Sponsors: Native American Studies, Religion Department

November 5, 2015, 1:20p.m., Ho Tung Vis Lab
Lecture: “Bookmaking, Science and Statecraft: The Archaeology of an Maya Institution at Xultun, Guatemala”
Franco Rossi 
Archaeology Department, Boston University
Description: Maya specialist Franco Rossi lectured on a mural at the Maya site of Xultun, Guatemala, discussing the material evidence related to its unusual scientific inscriptions, which are strikingly similar to those found in the few known Maya codices. Using the archaeology of this mural and its surrounding architectural complex as a window into earlier book traditions, he explored the agents who generated, managed and taught Maya sciences, incorporating such knowledge into the workings of society and state. Rossi and Anthony Aveni published a paper on the earliest Maya eclipse inscriptions in SCIENCE magazine in 2012.
Sponsor: Native American Studies

Thursday, November 5, 2015, ALANA Cultural Center Multipurpose Room
Lecture/Demonstration: “Lacrosse: The Creator’s Game”
Alf Jacques 
Onondaga
Description: Onondaga lacrosse stick maker, hall of fame player, and educator Alfred Jacques discusses the cultural significance of lacrosse for the Haudenosaunee (Iroquois) people. Alf, a master craftsman of lacrosse sticks, demonstrates his craft and his creations, while explaining the history of stick ball games among Native peoples of the Eastern Woodlands and Great Lakes areas. Brown bag lecture, lunch provided.
Sponsors: Native American Student Association, Native American Studies

Thursday, November 12, 2015, 11:30a.m.-12:30p.m., ALANA Cultural Center, Kitchen and Seminar Room
Lecture/Food Preparation Demonstration: “Healthy Traditional Haudenosaunee (Iroquois) Foods”
Ron Patterson
Oneida Nation
Description: Ron Patterson, an Oneida Nation member and the Cultural Programs Coordinator at the Shako:wi Cultural Center, will demonstrate and discuss the preparation of corn mush, corn wheels, and strawberry drink, while commenting on the cultural significance and healthful features of Haudenosaunee traditional foods.
Sponsors: Native American Student Association, Native American Studies, Shako:wi Cultural Center of the Oneida Indian Nation, ALANA Cultural Center (providing space and equipment)

Week of November 16, 2015
Campus Visit: Simon Forrest, Associate Professor and Nyoongar Elder-in-Residence, Curtin University
Description:
1)    Tuesday, November 17th, 4:30 – 5:30 pm, ALANA Cultural Center
Meeting with NAST faculty, discuss comparative Native American and Aboriginal Studies programs in higher education. Followed by dinner and continuation of the conversation.
2) Wednesday, November 18th, 11:30-1:15, Visualization Lab, Ho Sciences (lunch provided) “Gnalang Boodjar. Gnalang Nyitting: Our Land. Our Truths”
Environmental Studies Brown Bag Seminar Series
3) Thursday, November 19th, 4:30-6:00,101 Ho Sciences
“Carrolup goolanga wirn korl koolark Nyoongar boodjar (The spirit of the children of Carrrolup have returned home to Nyoongar country): Repatriated artwork and our Responsibilities”
Sponsors: Native American Studies, Environmental Studies, Peace and Conflict Studies, Geography Department

Thursday, November 19, 2015, 11:30-1:00, ALANA Cultural Center, MPR
Lecture: “Contemporary Issues among the Haudenosaunee and Onondaga Nation”
Wendy Gonyea 
Onondaga Nation Clanmother
Tony Gonyea 
Onondaga Nation Longhouse Faithkeeper
Description: “Brown bag” (lunch provided) lecture
Sponsor: Native American Studies

Native American Studies Info Session
February 24, 12:15–1:00 p.m.
ALANA Cultural Center - Multipurpose Room
Native American Studies information session for potential majors or minors, as well as discussion about Santa Fe Study Trip in Fall 2015. Royal India Grill will be served. 

Weaving Identities: Native American Baskets in the Longyear Museum Collection
November 13–March 12
Longyear Museum, Alumni Hall
An exhibition of baskets including vintage and contemporary examples in a variety of techniques as well as materials that are local to each cultural region.

Peter B. Jones
Public Lecture - Fifty Years in Clay
September 11, 2014, 4:30 p.m.
Persson Auditorium

Exhibition Reception - Peter B. Jones: Fifty Years in Clay
September 11, 2014, 5:30 p.m.
Longyear Museum of Anthropology

Dr. David Carrasco
Public Lecture - Latino Springtime: Deep Heritage Disruptions, and Choices of Hope
September 25, 2014, 7:00 p.m.
Love Auditorium, Olin Hall

Native American Arts & Culture Festival
October 18, 2014, 9:30 a.m. - 5:00 p.m.
Sanford Field House

Nicole Fabricant
Public Lecture - Food and Native Politics in Bolivia
October 28, 2014, 7:00 p.m.
Persson Auditorium

Exhibition Reception: Weaving Identities: Native American Baskets in the Longyear Museum Collections
November 13, 2014, 4:30 p.m.
Longyear Museum of Anthropology

Stones and Star Symposium
December 1, 2014, 8:30 a.m.
Ho Tung Visualization Lab, 401 Ho Science Center

Dr. Mari Lyn Salvador
Public Lecture - "The Art of Being Kuna: Layers of Meaning Among the Kuna of Panama
April 7, 2014, 4:30 p.m.
Persson Auditorium

Opening Reception - Layered Meanings: Kuna Indian Mola Textiles from Panama
April 7, 2014, 5:30 p.m.
Longyear Museum

Joanna Radin
Public Lecture - "Off the Rez: How Indigenous Bodies Became 'Big Data'"
March 13, 2014, 4:30 p.m.
101 Ho Science Center 

Orlando White
Poetry Writing Workshop 
March 12, 2014, 4:30 p.m. 
ALANA Lounge 

Poetry Reading - "To See Letters"
March 11, 2014, 4:30 p.m.
Persson Auditorium 

Dennis Banks
Public Lecture - "State of the Affairs of Indian Country"
March 3, 2014, 7:00 p.m.
101 Ho Science Center 

Scatter Their Own
"Oppression and the Struggle for Identity"
February 20, 2014, 3:00 p.m.
ALANA Lounge

Susan Burch
Public Lecture - "Discovered Pasts: Revisiting the Canton Asylum for Insane Indians, 1902 - 1934"
February 6, 2014, 4:15 p.m.
207 Lathrop Hall

Native American Student Association Presents:
Brown Bag - "The True Story of Thanksgiving"
November 21, 2013, 11:30 a.m.
110 Alumni Hall

Ed Cavanagh
Public Lecture - "How Companies Got Their Land and Natives Lost It:
The Corporate Foundations of Settler Colonialism in the USA and South Africa"
November 13, 2013, 7:00 p.m.
Persson Auditorium, Persson Hall

John Trudell
Public Lecture - "Intelligence as Alternative Energy"
November 7, 2013, 4:30 p.m.
Golden Auditorium, Little Hall

Film Screening, "Trudell" the Documentary
November 8, 2013, 5 p.m.
Golden Auditorium, Little Hall

Pottery of the Native American Southwest
ARTS/ANTH 250 Class Exhibition
Catered reception during Family Weekend
October 26, 2013, 3:00 - 4:30 p.m.
111 Alumni Hall

John MacDonald
Public Lecture - "Inuit Astronomy: More Than Meets The Eye"
October 23, 2013, 4:30 p.m.
Ho Tung Vis Lab

Native American Arts and Culture Festival
October 19, 2013 9:30 - 5:00 p.m.
Sanford Field House

Leah Shenandoah 
Exhibition:  O'whahsa' - Protection, Comfort, Healing
September 2 to November 1, 2013
Longyear Museum, Alumni Hall, 2nd floor

Reception: Thursday, September 19, 2013, 4:30 - 6:00 p.m.
Longyear Museum, Alumni Hall, 2nd floor

Jack Rossen
Public Lecture - "Longhouse, Cookhouse, Smoking Pipes, Eclipse:  
Archaeology of the Cauyga Heartland and the Origins of Confederacy"
September 18, 2013 at 4:30 p.m.
Ho Tung Vis Lab

Sunny Dooley - Navajo Storyteller
April 18, 2013, 4:15 p.m.
ALANA Cultural Center Multipurpose Room

Brown Bag: Working with the Oglala Lakota Nation
Presented by Project PEACE and Native American Studies Program
April 11, 2013, 12:20 p.m.
COVE Lounge, 109 Lathrop Hall

"Local Legacies: A Look at the Material Culture of Indigenous Peoples in the Hamilton, NY Area"
November 29, 2012, 4:30 - 6:00 p.m.
Hamilton Public Library, 13 Broad St.

Haudenosanuee (Iroquois) Art
Saturday, October 27, 3:00 - 4:30 p.m.
Exhibition in Alumni 111 with a catered reception

The Return of Navajo Boy Film
Friday, October 26, 7:00 p.m. 
Golden Auditorium, Little Hall

Jeff Spitz, "The Return of Navajo Boy: Its Environmental Impact"
Friday, October 26, 12:15 p.m.
ALANA Cultural Center

Mary Begay, "Navajo Lives" Lecture
Thursday, October 25, 4:30 p.m.
Persson Hall Auditorium

Native American Arts & Culture Festival
Saturday, September 22, 9:30 a.m.–5:00 p.m.
Sanford Field House

Joanne Shenandoah, "Music as Healing"  Workshop and Presentation
Thursday, September 20, 4:30 p.m.
ALANA Cultural Center

Christopher Vecsey, "Native Footsteps Along the Path of Saint Kateri Tekakwitha" Humanities Colloquium Lecture
Tuesday, September 18, 4:30 p.m.
Lawrence 105

Skywoman: Haudenosaunee Art and the Creation of a New World
Exhibition Opening Reception
Thursday, September 13, 4:30–6:00 p.m.
Longyear Museum of Anthropology Gallery
Second Floor, Alumni Hall

Dr. Laurie Rush, "Protecting Archaeology in Crisis Areas"
Wednesday, September 12, 4:00 p.m. 
ALANA Cultural Center

Professor Frost was born in 1930 in Brooklyn, N.Y. He received a BA from Swarthmore College in 1951, and an MA and PhD from the University of California at Berkeley in 1954 and 1960, respectively. Before coming to Colgate, he served as a teaching assistant in history and English, as an associate in history, and as the John Randolph Haynes and Dora Haynes Foundation research fellow in history at the University of California. In 1960 he began teaching at United College in Canada, now the University of Winnipeg. He joined the Colgate faculty in 1966 as an associate professor teaching American history and later Native American history. He retired in 1996.

Professor Frost built upon Colgate’s January term classes in the American Indian Southwest, establishing in 1991 among the Pueblos of New Mexico, a Colgate study group, which has continued for 30 years through the commitment of other Native American studies (NAST) faculty. The Santa Fe study group has provided our students with a rare and important opportunity to learn about — and from — Pueblo peoples past and present and to serve their communities through service learning projects much appreciated by the Pueblos themselves. The NAST Santa Fe study group owes its legacy to Professor Frost’s initiative and planning.

Frost was the author of numerous articles as well as The Mooney Case (Stanford University Press, 1968) and The Railroad and the Pueblo Indians: The Impact of the Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe on the Pueblos of the Rio Grande, 1880–1930 (University of Utah Press, 2016). He put his historical knowledge to work by serving as an expert witness on behalf of the Pueblo Indians in a number of natural resource lawsuits, for which he wrote extensive documentary depositions. His last scholarly presentation on the Colgate campus was in 2017, presenting his research on the Pueblos.

Professor Frost served on the Research Council and was a member of the American Historical Association and the Organization of American Historians. He was long a singer in the Hamilton, N.Y. choral group Tapestry and the author, in 2009, of I Never Saw a Silver Swan: Poetic Introductions to Madrigals of the Renaissance, 1530–1630. 

He is survived by his wife, Barbara; daughters Catherine Frost of Santa Fe, N.M., and Heather Frost (Jeff Mason) of Erie, Colo.; his sister, Elizabeth Buck (Alfred) of Lakewood, Wash.; and nieces, nephews, grand-nieces, and -nephews.

Interment was held in St. Thomas’ Memorial Garden on December 6, 2021, and a memorial service will be held at a later date at St. Thomas Church in Hamilton.

Contributions in his memory may be made to:

• The Hamilton Food Cupboard (hamiltonfoodcupboard.org; P.O. Box 411, Hamilton, N.Y. 13346);
• The Food Depot in Santa Fe (thefooddepot.org; 1222 A Siler Road, Santa Fe, N.M. 87507), or;
• The Music Program at St. Thomas Episcopal Church in Hamilton (12 ½ Madison Street, Hamilton, N.Y. 13346)