Native American Alumni of Harvard University

 

 

 

2019 Native American Alumni of Harvard University Symposium and Reunion

Harvard University Campus

Cambridge, MA

Thursday, May 2 to Sunday, May 5, 2019

 

 

Thursday, May 2nd

HUNAP-NAAHU Welcome Reception

6-8pm at HUNAP

14 Story Street, 4th Floor

 

Late Breaking: Phil Deloria is doing a book signing at the Coop at 7pm. We’ll take a vote at the Reception to see if we want to troupe over to attend!

Call Emily at 206-457-7559 if you are having trouble getting into HUNAP. Doors lock shortly after 6. 

 

 

Friday, May 3rd

2019 NAAHU Symposium

 

Taking Stock of Native American Rights in 2019

Litigation, Legislation & Recognition

 

A Symposium and Membership Meeting of

Native American Alumni of Harvard University

 

Friday, May 3, 2019

102 Haller Hall (Harvard Geological Museum)

24 Oxford Street, Cambridge, Massachusetts

 

8:45 - 8:55am

Welcome to the 2019 NAAHU Symposium

Emily Van Dyke

President, Native American Alumni of Harvard University

 

9:00 - 9:30am

Presentation—Indian Country in the American Imagination: How John Marshall’s  

Perception of Native American Cultures Shaped Federal Indian Law

S. Margaret Spivey-Faulkner, Junior Fellow

Harvard Society of Fellows

 

9:45 - 11:15am 

Panel 1—Indian Law Cases in the United States Supreme Court

Tommy Miller (Moderator)

Sole Practitioner

Methow Law

 

Monte Mills

Associate Professor of Law

Co-Director, Margery Hunter Brown Indian Law Clinic

Alexander Blewett III School of Law

University of Montana

 

Joseph William Singer

Bussey Professor of Law

Harvard Law School

 

John P. LaVelle

Professor of Law & Regents’ Lecturer

Director, Law and Indigenous Peoples Program

University of New Mexico School of Law

 

11:30am - 12:30pm 

Lunch (Provided)

 

12:45 - 2:15pm

Panel 2—Advocacy for the Rights of Native Americans and Indian Tribes in the Era of Trump

 

Emily Van Dyke (Moderator)

President, Native American Alumni of Harvard University

 

Ryan Rowberry

Associate Professor

Georgia State University College of Law

 

Kyle Scherer

Deputy Solicitor, Indian Affairs

United States Department of the Interior

 

Nathaniel H. Amdur-Clark

Associate

Sonosky, Chambers, Sachse, Endreson & Perry, LLP

 

2:15 - 2:20pm

 

Closing Remarks for the Symposium

Emily Van Dyke

President, Native American Alumni of Harvard University

 

2:30 - 5:00pm 

NAAHU Business Meeting

2019-2021 Board Elections

Communications and Connectivity

Inclusion and Belonging Update

Founding Documents Discussion

2020 Unity Conference

 

 

Saturday, May 4th

24th Annual Harvard Powwow 

Lesley University

Theme: A New Hope

 

 

NAAHU Awards Banquet

6 - 8pm 

Eliot House Entry M

Left of Main Entrance 

Society of Fellows Room

101 Dunster St

 

Alumni Fire Keeper Award

The Fire Keeper Award is presented to a distinguished alumna/us and serves as our primary means of honoring exceptional achievements among our community’s many distinguished alumni. 

 

Our 2019 Fire Keeper Award recipient is Dr. Joseph P. Gone, who is a Professor in the Faculty of Arts and Sciences (Anthropology) and in the Faculty of Medicine (Global Health and Social Medicine) at Harvard University. He earned his undergraduate degree from Harvard College in 1992 and his doctorate in clinical-community psychology from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign in 2001. An enrolled member of the Aaniiih-Gros Ventre tribe of Montana, he has investigated these issues through collaborative research partnerships in both reservation and urban American Indian communities. Gone has published over 75 articles and chapters exploring the cultural psychology of self, identity, personhood, and social relations in indigenous community settings vis-à-vis the mental health professions, with particular attention to therapeutic interventions such as psychotherapy and traditional healing. His articles have appeared in the American Psychologist, Annual Review of Clinical Psychology, Journal of Consulting & Clinical Psychology, The Counseling Psychologist, and the American Journal of Community Psychology.

 

Student Leadership Award

The Student Leadership Award is usually presented to a current student in their final year of study (college senior or final year graduate student) who has made significant contributions to the Native community at Harvard through their academic, community, and leadership activity over their years of study. This year, the NAAHU Board honors the FIERCE leadership team, who are represented by Sarah Wright and Heather Watts. Future Indigenous Educators Resisting Colonial Education (FIERCE) is a student organization for Native and Indigenous students to bring awareness about Indigenous issues to HGSE and beyond. FIERCE challenges the colonial narrative, raising awareness through school wide events and holding space for Native and Indigenous students to voice their opinions and ideas.

 

Sunday, May 5th

Alumni Farewell Brunch and Caleb Cheeshahteaumuck Portrait Viewing 

Annenberg Hall

45 Quincy Street

11:30 - 1pm 

 

 

 

Members of the Native American Alumni of Harvard University Executive Board cordially request your presence at the First Annual NAAHU Symposium and General Meeting to be hosted at Harvard University on Friday-Sunday, April 26 – 28, 2013. This year’s event “The New Face of Indian Country” also coincides with both the 18th Annual Harvard University Powwow and 20th Annual Arts First Festival. The weekend is a closed event for NAAHU community members and their guests.