This special event starring The Derek Miller Band will also feature clips from the film Rumble: The Indians Who Rocked the World, in which the band appears.Â
Two-time JUNO winning singer/songwriter/guitarist Derek Miller from Six Nations of the Grand River is a journeyman musician with eclectic taste and a...
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Tommy Orange set his novel about indigenous lives in Oakland, but he is by no means the first or only author to try to capture something about the essence of California or its distinctive urban identities in his writing. This panel brings together creative writers whose work touches in...
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Fueled by the Red Power movement of the 1960s and 70s, the occupation of Alcatraz was a touchstone in American Indian activism—activism rooted in sovereign rights and environmental and social justice. Since this era, modern American Indian activism has been driven by grassroot organization from tribal communities to protect the environment and...
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This panel discussion will explore aspects of Indigenous culture, landscape, language, and sovereignty before colonization, through the historic period and the present day, and going forward into the future. The complexity, vibrancy, and continued vitality of basketry and other fine arts, ceremonies and songs, foodways, landscape and...
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The Pacific Film Archives is offering three programs featuring diverse films by and about Native Americans drawn from the BAMPFA collection, ranging from silent, narrative, and experimental cinema to investigative journalism, documentary, and educational films.Â
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Join us on Monday, August 26, 2019, for a keynote event featuring author Tommy Orange, who will be interviewed onstage by Professor Beth Piatote (Native American Studies).
Admission is free and everyone is welcome.
In The Handmaid's Tale (1985), Margaret Atwood imagined the future as an authoritarian, environmental, and reproductive dystopia. To what extent have we heeded her cautionary tale? How well did her dystopian imaginings predict our present moment? And what dangers and promises does our own future hold? This panel approaches the...
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Join us for a free screening of the award-winning documentary film Tomorrow, followed by a discussion with two of the scientists featured in the film, Anthony Barnosky and Liz Hadly.Â
The filmmakers, Melanie Laurent and Cyril Dion, have expressed their purpose in this way: "TOMORROWÂ is not just a film, it...
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Following Emancipation, Lucrecia and Marshall Perryman settled on the outskirts of Mobile to raise their family. After Marshall’s death, Lucrecia turned to lay midwifery to support her family and...
moreA surveillance society is taking hold. Video cameras, satellites, drones peer constantly from the skies. Smartphones, license-plate cameras...