Celebrate the opening of Madayin: Eight Decades of Aboriginal Australian Bark Painting from Yirrkala during a First Friday Reception at The Fralin Museum of Art. Be sure to arrive at 5 pm to meet the Yolngu delegation and experience a performance of manikay (sacred song accompanied by clap sticks...

Get an exclusive first-look and engage in enriching discussions at our special exhibition preview of First Nation Australia: Contemporary Artists from Buku-Larrŋgay Mulka Centre, Yirrkala, featuring visiting artists from the distinguished Buku-Larrnggay Mulka Centre. Delve into a fascinating...

Join us for an Artist Talk with Lisa Waup, who will be in residence at Kluge-Ruhe March 8- April 7, and whose exhibition close to the wind is currently on view in the Focus Gallery. Lisa Waup is a mixed-cultural First Nations artist and curator who was born in Narrm (Melbourne). Her...

When UVA removed the George Rogers Clark statue from campus in 2021, representatives from affected Native Nations urged the university to create programs that promoted mutual exchanges of knowledge with Indigenous people. This is the first event in one of those programs. Please share widely with...

Native American and Indigenous Studies is a wide-ranging, interdisciplinary field with arguably two elements at its core: the use of place-based methodologies and a commitment to decolonizing scholarship that serves Indigenous communities. What do these elements mean in different world regions and...

In honor of Garifuna Heritage Month (March 11-April 12), join us for a two-day symposium honoring Garifuna intellectual history. Black and Indigenous Feminist Future Institute Post-doctoral-Fellow Dr. Daisy E. Guzman Nuñez aims to create a hemispheric discourse on Garifuna women and memory. With...

https://karshinstitute.virginia.edu/events/future-making-land-law-and-indigenous-resilience

Many beings and cultural items are deemed by Native American tribes to be too sacred for public viewing. Even reproductions of these items can carry the power of the original. How does one know what these items are and how does one start to learn protocols about Sacred Beings and items? What should...

Prof. Pio Saqui (Mopan), University of Belize Contemporary Mopan Maya: Language, culture, and integration in the developing nation of Belize Mopan Maya is a group of lowland Maya that still practices their traditional way of life, closely tied to shifting agriculture. Oral transmission of...