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    Thanksgiving Myth-Busting Dinner

    Monday, November 20, 2023 – 6:00pm
    Lobdell Dining Hall, W20-208

    Native American Heritage Month is a time for learning.    Join us on Monday 11/20 at 6pm in Lobdell for the 2nd Annual Thanksgiving Myth-Busting Dinner.  Learn about how events of the 1600s were spun into the American Thanksgiving Holiday, and about the stories told in the 1860s…

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    Trip to 54th Annual National Day of Mourning

    Thursday, November 23, 2023 – 10:00am
    so-called Plymouth, MA

    Native American Heritage Month is a time for learning.    On Thursday 11/23 (Thanksgiving Day), join us for a bus trip to the National Indigenous Day of Mourning (NDOM) rally in Plymouth, MA.  We meet at the bus turn-around outside W-20 at 10am, and depart Plymouth at 3pm. …

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    Film Screening: We Still Live Here

    Thursday, November 3, 2022 – 6:00pm

    Co-sponsored by the Addir Fellows and NASA Please join us for a screening of this amazing documentary. We Still Live Here: Âs Nutayuneân tells the inspiring story of the recent resurgence of the Wampanoag language, an incredible feat for decolonialism. The Wampanoag people are most well-known in America for helping the Pilgrims…

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    Finding Refuge and Resilience in Climate Crisis

    Tuesday, October 25, 2022 – 4:00pm

    Co-sponsored by MIT Knight Science Journalism and the Humanist Chaplaincy at MIT MIT Humanist Chaplain Greg Epstein has invited journalist and author Madeline Ostrander to campus for a discussion on her most recent book At Home on an Unruly Planet: Finding Refuge on a Changed Earth, and a mini writers…

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    Indigenous Ethics: Gathering Our Pipes for a Healing Journey

    Thursday, October 20, 2022 – 6:30pm
    Twenty Chimneys, W20-306

    Co-sponosored by NASA and AISES Dr. Juan-Carlos Chavez, from the lands of the Sonora Desert Yoeme Peoples, is a Pipe-Carrier Indigenous Scholar who serves and works internationally with Indigenous communities from Turtle Island. He will touch on history, including genocide and ecocide, and challenge the moral center of…

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