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Upcoming Events
The Land Acknowledgment Project
The Land Acknowledgment Project
Tuesday, March 11 - Thursday, April 24, 2025
The Land Acknowledgment Project is a six-week journey hosted by your D&R student leaders. This is an opportunity for the Hampshire community to reflect on and engage with questions of Indigenous rights, land ownership, white supremacy and social responsibility. Each week, we will present a new segment of the Living Land Acknowledgement written by Hampshire Alum Finn Farrell, along with questions, activities and installations. These events will be around campus, with the first week being hosted in the Kern Cafe on Tuesday, March 11, Wednesday, March 12, and Friday, March 14 from 11 am to 1 pm.
The journey will end on Thursday, April 24th, at the Native Crossroads festival on Hampshire campus, where all the art and writing contributed by our community for this project will be exhibited.
3rd Native Crossroads Festival
3rd Native Crossroads Festival
Thursday, April 24, 2025 | Franklin Patterson Hall
The Native Crossroads Festival brings Indigenous culture keepers, organizers and scholars to share their work with Hampshire College, 5 College and local communities. This is an opportunity to engage in on-going learning about decolonization, Indigenous Sovereignty and building right and reciprocal relationships with the land, ecosystems, and Indigenous communities. In addition to educational events and workshops, the festival features Indigenous vendors who will be introducing the community to native material culture from the region and raising awareness on the historical and contemporary importance of buying from Indigenous people.
This year's Native Crossroads Festival is organized by Hampshire College’s Decolonization & Reciprocity Working Group in partnership with Justin Beatty.
Previous Events
Previous Events
Community Day of Learning: Decolonization & Reciprocity
Community Day of Learning: Decolonization & Reciprocity
Thursday, April - Friday, April, 2024
Being in right relations with the land, ecosystems and Indigenous communities
Join scholars, organizers, cultural educators, students, staff, and faculty for a day of collective learning and practice about decolonization, Indigenous Sovereignty and building right and reciprocal relationships with the land, ecosystems, and Indigenous communities. Presenters will include: Cheryll Toney Holley, Sonksq of the Hassanamisco Nipmuc Band, Dr. Sonya Atalay (Anishinaabe-Ojibwe), Director, Center for Braiding Indigenous Knowledges and Science (CBIKS), Justin Beatty (Ojibwe/Saponi/African-American) is a cultural educator, artist, powwow singer, and powwow emcee, Jean-Luc Pierite (Tunica-Biloxi Tribe of Louisiana), MLK Visiting Scholar at MIT Dept. of Urban Studies and Planning, president of the North American Indian Center of Boston, Noah Romero, Assistant Professor of Native American and Indigenous Studies, Finn Farrell, Division III Student
You can find the full schedule of events and workshops here.
Indigenous Voices Lunch and Learn Series
Indigenous Voices Lunch and Learn Series
Thursday, March 28, 2024 from 12:00 - 1:00 pm | Kern 202
Join us for lunch and the second session of our Indigenous Voices Lunch and Learn series! This time, we'll be watching a video on Nipmuc History (Part 1), developed by the Hassanamisco Nipmuc Band as part of their Knowing Nipmuc series. We invite you to deepen your knowledge of our local Indigenous peoples, cultures and histories as a step towards building right and reciprocal relationships with Indigenous peoples and the land. The video is about 45 minutes long; we'll watch together then discuss what we learned. Pizza will be provided.
Indigenous Voices Lunch and Learn Series
Indigenous Voices Lunch and Learn Series
Thursday, February 22, 2024 from 12:00 - 1:00 pm | Kern 202
Join us for pizza and the first installation of the Indigenous Voices Lunch and Learn series! This time, we'll be discussing the Indigenous Voices of the Connecticut River Valley series from the Nolumbeka Project! We invite you to deepen your knowledge of our local Indigenous peoples, cultures and histories as a step towards building right and reciprocal relationships with Indigenous peoples and the land. For this installation of the Lunch and Learn series, we ask that you join us having watched the first three videos in the Indigenous Voices series so that we can jump right into lively discussion. If you prefer to watch the videos with others, join us at 11am in the Community Commons, where we will be showing the videos and can walk over to Kern 202 for the Lunch and Learn! Pizza will be provided.
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