{"id":13714,"date":"2024-01-24T11:49:33","date_gmt":"2024-01-24T16:49:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www-staging.bu.edu\/amnesp\/?page_id=13714"},"modified":"2025-12-05T12:06:40","modified_gmt":"2025-12-05T17:06:40","slug":"indigenousstudies","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/americanstudies\/indigenousstudies\/","title":{"rendered":"Indigenous Studies"},"content":{"rendered":"

About<\/strong><\/span><\/h2>\n

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The Indigenous Studies Working Group (ISWG) at Boston University was founded in Fall 2023 to build community among students, scholars, and members of the BU community interested in the interdisciplinary field of Native American and Indigenous Studies. Our goal is to showcase and discuss scholarship in Indigenous Studies through seminars, events, reading groups, film screenings, informal gatherings over meals, and public lectures and events.<\/span><\/p>\n

ISWG is co-organized by Mary Battenfeld (mbatten@bu.edu<\/a>) and Wade Campbell (wadehc@bu.edu<\/a>). To get on our email list and receive announcements about our events, and other Indigenous-related programing around town, email amstudies@bu.edu<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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Upcoming Events<\/span><\/h2>\n

Transpacific Indigeneities Symposium<\/span> \u2013 September 19, 2025<\/strong><\/p>\n

Join us for a one-day symposium on transpacific Indigenous studies with guest speakers Quynh Nhu Le<\/a>, Bayley J. Marquez<\/a>, Tiara Na’puti<\/a>, and Erin Suzuki<\/a>. Speakers will present their research across a range of Indigenous geographies in Native America, the Pacific Islands, and Asia.<\/p>\n

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Location:<\/strong> Howard Thurman Center 205<\/p>\n

Schedule:\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n

9:30-10:00<\/strong> Breakfast & Coffee<\/span><\/p>\n

10:00-10:15<\/strong> Welcome<\/span><\/p>\n

10:15-11:15<\/strong> Dr. Quynh Nhu Le<\/a> (University of South Florida)<\/span>
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11:30-12:30<\/strong> Dr. Bayley J. Marquez (University of Maryland)<\/a><\/span>
\n\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 \u201cPacific Currents: Industrial Education and the Assumed Death of the Native\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

12:30-2:00<\/strong> Lunch Break<\/span><\/p>\n

2:00-3:00<\/strong> Dr. Tiara Na\u2019puti<\/a> (UC Irvine)<\/span>
\n\u2002\u2002\u2002\u2002\u201cFrom the Ryukyu to Mariana Islands: Care & Indigeneities Across Archipelagoes\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

3:15-4:15<\/strong> Dr. Erin Suzuki<\/a> (UC San Diego)<\/span>
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Past Events<\/span><\/h2>\n

Lunch Seminar \u2013 April 23, 2024<\/strong><\/p>\n

Kimberley Toney<\/a>\u00a0<\/span>(Hassanamisco Nipmuc) visited the ISWG for a seminar over lunch and discussed her work as the Inaugural Coordinating Curator of Native American and Indigenous Collections at the John Carter Brown Library and at the John Hay Library at Brown University.<\/p>\n

The recommended readings for the seminar included:<\/p>\n

Protocols for Native American Archival Materials<\/a><\/p>\n

Information as a relation: Defining Indigenous information literacy<\/a><\/p>\n

Prior to holding this position at the JCB, Kim Toney was Head of Readers\u2019 Services and Director of Indigenous Initiatives at the American Antiquarian Society, on Nipmuc homelands in Worcester, Massachusetts. Kim holds an MA in Historic Preservation from the University of Delaware, regularly serves as an advisor or consultant to cultural institutions and land trusts in Massachusetts, Rhode Island and Connecticut, and is deeply engaged with cultural revitalization, language reclamation and landback efforts in her Nipmuc community.<\/em><\/p>\n

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Killers of the Flower Moon <\/em>series, February 2024<\/strong><\/p>\n

Hosted by BU’s Conversations in the Arts and Ideas<\/em>, David Grann, author of\u00a0<\/span>Killers of the Flower Moon<\/a><\/em>, discussed his work at BU on Wednesday, February 28, at 7pm. Throughout the week, the ISWG <\/span>participated in the conversation with Grann and discussed other works about Osage history in the 1920s. Copies of Grann\u2019s book as well as John Joseph Matthew\u2019s novel\u00a0<\/span>Sundown<\/a><\/em>\u00a0<\/span>and\u00a0<\/span>Charles Red Corn’s A Pipe for February<\/em><\/a>\u00a0are available for the group to read.<\/p>\n

The Event Series included:<\/strong>
\n<\/span>Weds, 2\/28, at 7pm, Tsai Performance Center: Conversation with David Grann.<\/p>\n

Thurs, 2\/29, 12pm, in Room B06 at 226 Bay State Road: Lunch meeting of the ISWG to discuss.<\/p>\n

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Academic Resources<\/strong><\/span><\/h2>\n

Coursework<\/span><\/p>\n

The ISWG maintains a list of courses related to Indigenous Studies at Boston University. The current interdisciplinary list of related courses is available through this link<\/a>. <\/span><\/p>\n

If you would like to add a course to this link, contact Genna Kane, the ISWG Graduate Assistant, at gweidner@bu.edu.<\/p>\n

Mugar Library Indigenous and Native American Studies Research Guide<\/span><\/p>\n

Supported by the Center for Diversity & Inclusion’s “Learn More” series, BU Mugar Library compiled a research guide for Indigenous and Native American Studies. You can find the research guide through this link.\u00a0<\/a><\/p>\n

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The Indigenous Studies Working Group is sponsored by the American Studies Program, the Boston University Center for the Humanities, the Dean of the College of Arts and Sciences, the Associate Dean of the Faculty, Humanities, the Associate Dean of the Faculty, Social Sciences, and the Associate Dean of Diversity and Inclusion.<\/p>\n

Co-organizers:
\n<\/span>Wade Campbell (wadehc@bu.edu)
\nMary Battenfeld (mbatten@bu.edu)<\/p>\n

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