by Karen Larkin | Jan 23, 2024
Friday, February 9th 7:00PM – 9:00PM This event will take place at The Universalist Church of West Hartford 433 Fern Street, West Hartford CT 06016 Warrior Lawyers is a documentary that uses the personal and professional stories of Native American attorneys,...
by Karen Larkin | Jan 3, 2024
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,...
by Karen Larkin | Jan 3, 2024
Wednesday, January 31st 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....
by Karen Larkin | Jan 2, 2024
Saturday, January 20th 1:00PM – 2:30PM Did you know that snow snake, a traditional Haudenosaunee (Iroquois) winter game, is still played today in many Northern Native American communities? This game involves a stick that is carved and decorated to resemble a...
by Karen Larkin | Jan 2, 2024
Sunday, January 14th 1:00PM – 2:30PM The IAIS Education Department frequently offers family-friendly educational workshops on Sunday afternoons. This year, many of our Sunday Fun Day workshops will focus on the teachings of trees and the power of plants, which...
by Karen Larkin | Jan 2, 2024
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...
by Karen Larkin | Dec 5, 2023
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...
by Karen Larkin | Dec 1, 2023
Saturday, December 2; Sunday, December 3; Saturday, December 9; & Sunday, December 10 11:00AM – 4:00pPM each day. Shop for one-of-a-kind holiday gifts from local and Native American vendors selling crafts and jewelry. Take advantage of this time to meet and...
by Karen Larkin | Dec 1, 2023
Sunday, December 10th 12:00PM – 3:00PM For thousands of years, Native peoples have decorated clothing and items with materials found in nature, such as shells, stones, seeds and porcupine quills. In more recent centuries, multi-colored glass beads have become a...
by Karen Larkin | Dec 1, 2023
Tuesday, December 26th 6:00PM – 8:00PM The soft sounds of the nighttime winter woodlands provide a pleasant setting for a walk guided by the light of the last full moon of 2023. As it is the full moon that appears around the time of the winter solstice, it is...