NAHM Events - Native American Heritage Month - NOVEMBER 2024 - Library Guides at Salisbury University

Salisbury University Events

Adventures in Ideas Seminar - Land & Water Protectors: Native Americans & the Environment
Saturday, November 2, 2024, 10 am - 2 pm, Conway Hall 179
TICKETS: $30/$50 for 2, To reserve tickets: 410-677-5070 - jhabermeyer@salisbury.edu
Native American' relationship to nature have long been a source of fascination, misunderstanding, and criticism for non-indigenous people. SU professors Celine Carayon and Stephanie Bernhard explore the historical and contemporary dimensions of Native American environmentalism and what they have to teach us for the future.
Sponsored by the Fulton School of Liberal Arts and the Whaley Family Foundation
River Networks & Ancestral Pathways: The Cultural Heritage of Rivers in the Pocomake Indian Nation's Sphere of Influence
Wednesday, November 13, 2024 at 7 PM, Conway Hall 153
Wicomico, Rockawalkin, Wighcocomoco, Pocomoke, Familiar local monikers have a complex history that members of the Pocompoke Indian Nation have been researching through colonial-era documents. This presentation takes you on a journey along the rivers, paths, and bridges that composed the Pocomoke and other Algonquian groups' ancestral landscapes, and still shape our familiar surroundings.
Co-sponsored by Nabb Research Center and the Fulton Public Humanities Program
Delmarva: People, Place & Time Exhibit
This self-guided Nabb exhibit highlights various aspects of Delmarva history, including Native Americans and early settlers, agriculture and water, and an early 19th century home.

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Tour Handsell Historic Site
November 8, 12-3 p.m.
4837 Indiantown Road, Vienna, MD 21869

In celebration of Native American Heritage Month, join us for a Saturday afternoon outing to the Eastern Shore’s very own Handsell Historic Site. Discover local Native American and African American history and culture through a guided tour and immersive living history demonstrations at this nationally registered historic landmark. Located on the site of the Chicone Native American Village, the ancestral homeland of the Eastern Woodland Native People of Delmarva, Handsell offers a unique lens into centuries of layered heritage.
Students sign up for FREE transportation and boxed picnic lunch!

Sponsored by the Offices of Inclusion, Access and Belonging, Student Affairs, Diversity and Inclusion, and Cultural Affairs.

Honoring Baltimore's Native Past, Present, and Future
With Dr. Ashley Minner Jones
November 13, 5:30 OR 6 p.m.
FH111 OR ASSEMBLY HALL (currently both rooms are reserved)

Dr. Ashley Minner Jones (Lumbee) will share about her practice as a community-based visual artist and public scholar working in collaboration with Baltimore's American Indian community to honor their collective past, present, and future.

Dr. Ashley Minner Jones is a community-based visual artist and folklorist from Baltimore, Maryland where she has lived on the same block her entire life. Her interdisciplinary practice is deeply rooted in place—usually within the context of the U.S. South—and is focused on honoring and celebrating everyday people by lifting up their stories. Ashley earned an MFA in Community Arts from the Maryland Institute College of Art and a PhD in American Studies from the University of Maryland College Park. As an artist, she has exhibited widely and her work is represented in several prominent collections. Her research is being archived as “the Ashley Minner Collection” in the Albin O. Kuhn Library of the University of Maryland Baltimore County, where she was formerly a Professor of the Practice in the Department of American Studies and the inaugural Director of the minor in Public Humanities. Just prior to her return to independent practice, Ashley worked as Assistant Curator for History and Culture at the Smithsonian National Museum of the American Indian. She is an enrolled citizen of the Lumbee Tribe of North Carolina.

Maryland Events

48th Annual Pow-Wow
Saturday, November 16, 2024 at 11 AM to 7 PM
The Baltimore American Indian Center proudly presents the 48th Annual Pow-Wow, at the Maryland State Fairgrounds, Timonium, MD Exhibition Hall.
Admission & Free Parking at the link.
Costs: $10 Adult | $5 Children (4-12) Under 3 free

55th Annual National Day of Mourning

55th Annual National Day of Mourning
November 28, 2024 at 12:00 Noon.
Since 1970, Indigenous people & their allies have gathered at noon on Cole's Hill in Plymouth to commemorate a National Day of Mourning on the US Thanksgiving holiday. Many Native people do not celebrate the arrival of the Pilgrims & other European settlers. Thanksgiving Day is a reminder of the genocide of millions of Native people, the theft of Native lands and the erasure of Native cultures. Participants in National Day of Mourning honor Indigenous ancestors and Native resilience. It is a day of remembrance and spiritual connection, as well as a protest against the racism and oppression that Indigenous people continue to experience worldwide.

National Museum of the American Indian Events

Smithsonian: National Museum of the American Indian Exhibitions Website
Indigenous Voices of the Americas 2024
June 26–July 1, 2024
Highlights living traditions of Indigenous peoples. At its core, the program honors contemporary and traditional creative expressions, celebrations, and community connections that feed new possibilities for Indigenous futures. The program is co-presented by the Smithsonian Center for Folklife and Cultural Heritage, the National Museum of the American Indian, and the National Park Service.
Developing Stories: Native Photographers in the Field
The exhibition features photo essays by Native photojournalists Donovan Quintero, Tailyr Irvine, and Russel Albert Daniels. Each photographer explores an issue that is of deep personal interest and that touches the lives of Native people in a specific community.
Quintero’s essay reveals how the COVID-19 pandemic has impacted the Navajo Nation, capturing how individuals, families, healthcare workers, and officials have responded to the pandemic. Irvine’s essay delves into the legacy of US government regulations impacting Native Americans’ most personal decisions, including with whom they have children. Daniels’ essay explores the historical complexities shaping a 266-year-old Indigenous/Hispanic community’s sense of self and genesis in violence, slavery, and survival. These works provide insights into contemporary Native life and nuanced perspectives on an American experience that is largely invisible to mainstream society.
Why We Serve: Native Americans in the United States Armed Forces
The Smithsonian’s National Museum of the American Indian brings its annual This poignant exhibition tells personal stories of Native Americans, Native Hawaiians, and Alaska Native veterans who have served in the armed forces of the United States—often in extraordinary numbers—since the American Revolution. For some, the Indigenous commitment to the U.S. military doesn’t make sense. Why would Native people serve a country that overran their homelands, suppressed their cultures, and confined them to reservations? Why We Serve brings long overdue recognition to the Native veterans who have served their country selflessly and with honor for more than 250 years.

Native American Heritage Month - NOVEMBER 2024: NAHM Events

Salisbury University Events

Maryland Events

55th Annual National Day of Mourning

National Museum of the American Indian Events