March Virtual Book Club – Living Resistance by Kaitlin B. Curtice

Wednesday, March 29 7:00PM - 9:00PM Virtual EventLooking to expand your reading list and discuss a variety of issues and topics important to Nativepeople? If so, please join our virtual book club, As They Speak: Native Voices in Today’s Literature. Based on a variety of topics and featuring a range of genres, all of the […]

May Virtual Book Club – “Oracles: A Novel” by Melissa Tantaquidgeon Zobel

Wednesday, May 31 7:00pm - 8:30pm Virtual Event Looking to expand your reading list and discuss a variety of issues and topics important to Native people? If so, please join our virtual book club, As They Speak: Native Voices in Today’s Literature. Based on a variety of topics and featuring a range of genres, all […]

August Virtual Book Club Discussion – Cape Cod Wampanoag Cookbook

Wednesday, August 30th, 7:00pm Virtual Event  Looking to expand your reading list and discuss a variety of issues and topics important to Native people? If so, please join our virtual book club, As They Speak: Native Voices in Today’s Literature. Based on a variety of topics and featuring a range of genres, all of the […]

September Virtual Book Club Discussion – A Pipe For February

Wednesday, September 27 7:00 PM - 9:00 PM This is a virtual event via ZOOM Looking to expand your reading list and discuss a variety of issues and topics important to Native people? Please join our virtual book club, As They Speak: Native Voices in Today’s Literature. Based on a variety of topics and featuring […]

November Virtual Book Club – The Seed Keeper: A Novel

The Institute for American Indian Studies 38 Curtis Road, Washington, CT, United States

Wednesday, November 29 7:00 PM - 9:00 PM This is a virtual event Looking to expand your reading list and discuss a variety of issues and topics important to Native people? Please join our virtual book club, As They Speak: Native Voices in Today’s Literature. Based on a variety of topics and featuring a range […]

“Stone Language: Voice of the Ancestors” – A Presentation by Dr. Fred Wiseman

Saturday, December 16th 2:00PM - 3:30PM This is a virtual presentation This year, the Institute for American Indian Studies Annual Native American-Archaeology Roundtable series seeks to explore ecological ties, past and present, through the sharing of new technologies, new findings, and new analyses that help bring Indigenous communities into greater focus. Dr. Frederick Wiseman is […]

December Virtual Book Club – Gather: Richard Van Camp on the Joy of Storytelling

The Institute for American Indian Studies 38 Curtis Road, Washington, CT, United States

Wednesday, December 27th 7:00PM - 9:00PM This is a virtual event Looking to expand your reading list and discuss a variety of issues and topics important to Native people? Please join our virtual book club, As They Speak: Native Voices in Today’s Literature. Based on a variety of topics and featuring a range of genres, […]

“Decolonizing Archaeological Interpretations of Native American Agriculture: An Example from Northern Iroquoia” with John Hart

Saturday, January 13th 2:00PM - 4:00PM This is a virtual presentation Fourteenth to seventeenth-century Northern Iroquoian villages housed hundreds to over 1000 individuals. Various forms of evidence, including isotopic analyses of human teeth, as well as ethnohistorical accounts from the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, suggest that Iroquoian farmers produced large quantities of maize and other […]

“Lessons in Food Sovereignty from White-Tailed Deer and Wampum in 17th Century New England” with Elic Weitzel

Saturday, January 27th 2:00PM - 3:30PM This is a virtual event Analysis of deer and quahog remains from archaeological sites in Southern New England suggests that European colonialism and capitalism inspired unprecedented harvest pressure on these species, despite the human population of the region being smaller than almost ever before. The cause of this overexploitation […]