Events

Culture Night and Community Dinners 2025-26
Culture & Community Nights at the Longhouse
1st and 3rd Thursdays of the month
5:30 - 7:30 pm 
Many Nations Longhouse 
 
Come join us for food, fellowship, and fun as we gather in community and hold each other up! 
Native Engagement Time Event
Native Engagement Time 
Office Hours:
Every Wednesday 1.30-3.30pm
Many Nations Longhouse.
 
Drop-in advising, career coaching, tutoring, supplies, and snacks! Contact Norma Trefren (ntrefren@uoregon.edu) for more information.
Home Flight hours
Home Flight Community Hours
Every Thursday, 3.00–5.00pm
Many Nations Longhouse
 
For more information contact Jorney Baldwin-Chee jorneyb@uoregon.edu 
Native American Arts and Crafts Market
Native American Arts and Crafts Market Eugene 
First Sunday of the month 
10:00 am - 4:00 pm 
Farmers Market Pavilion 85 E 8th Ave, Eugene 
 
Visit us at naacm.org 
James Lavadour Montage of Works
James Lavadour: Land of Origin
August 7, 2025-January 11, 2026
Jordan Schnitzer Museum of Art | Coeta and Donald Barker Changing Exhibitions Gallery
Free for UO faculty, staff, students, and members of the JSMA
 
James Lavadour: Land of Origin presents the most comprehensive survey to date of works by painter and printmaker James Lavadour (Walla Walla). Spanning five decades of work, this national retrospective celebrates Lavadour’s deep connection to the eastern Oregon landscape, particularly the Umatilla Indian Reservation and surrounding Blue Mountains region where the artist has spent most of his life, and recognizes his esteemed place in contemporary American painting.
Event poster: Blue Jay's Canoe
Blue Jay's Canoe: Bringing Indigenous Stories and Ecological Knowledge to Life on Stage, Thersa May and Marta Lu Clifford
Friday, October 3, 2025.
10:30am–12pm
EMU 023 Lease Crutcher Lewis
 
As part of the Center for Environmental Futures Interdisiplinarity 101 talk series. 
Indigenous Peoples Day NASU poster
NASU Indigenous People’s Day
Monday, October 13, 2025
12:00pm
EMU Amphitheater
 
NASU’s annual Indigenous People’s Day celebrations, more details to follow. 
Dr. David Martinez at the Heard Museum
"There Is No Word for Museum in My Language: An O'odham View of the Art World," with Dr. David Martinez
November 6, 2025
10:00 am 
Museum of Natural and Cultural History
Free and open to the public
 
Can Indigenous artists, curators, and historians resist the colonial narrative of art museums when the museum itself is a colonizer institution? Reflecting on his own experience visiting the museum on the Gila River Indian Community, David Martínez (Akimel O'odham/Hia-Ced O'odham/Mexican), Professor of American Indian Studies and Transborder Studies at Arizona State University, argues that the path to resistance lay in the land itself."

Co-sponsored by The Oregon Humanities Center, Department of History, Native American and Indigenous Studies, and the Center for Latino/a and Latin American Studies.
Stephanie Nohelani Tevas
Book Talk with Author Stephanie Nohelani Teves: The Mahele of our Bodies: Nā Moʻolelo Kūpuna Māhū/LGBTQ 

Friday, November 7, 2025
3:00 to 4:00 pm
Knight Library Browsing Room
Free and Open to the Public

Stephanie Nohelani Teves (Kanaka Maoli) is an Associate Professor and Chair of the department of Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies at the University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa where she teaches courses on Indigenous feminisms and queer theory. Teves is author of Defiant Indigeneity: The Politics of Hawaiian Performance (2018) and co-editor of Native Studies Keywords. Her essays have appeared in American Quarterly, The Drama Review, the American Indian Culture and Research Journal, and the International Journal of Critical Indigenous Studies. She was a faculty member at UO in Ethnic Studies and WGSS from 2015-2019.

Cosponsored by Native American and Indigenous Studies
 

Event poster: Blue Jay's Canoe
Blue Jay's Canoe
November 7—November 23, 2025
Tickets available now
 
illioo Native Theatre in partnership with Very Little Theatre presents BlueJay’s Canoe, by Theresa May and UO Elder in Residence Marta Lu Clifford (Chinook, Cree, Confederated Tribes of Grand Ronde).