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Events

NAIS Culture Night Event Poster
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 
Every Wednesday
1:30 - 3:30 pm
Many Nations Longhouse 
 
Drop-in advising, career coaching, tutoring, supplies, and snacks! 
 
Contact Norme Trefren (ntrefren@uoregon.edu) for more information. 
Drop In Advising and Crafting Event
Home Flight Community Hours 
Thursdays
3:00 - 5:00 pm  
Many Nations Longhouse 
 
For more information contact 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 
Transgressors Event
Transgressors: An Exhibition presenting now and future Indigiqueer ancestors who move beyond boundaries in life and art 
On view May 16, 2025 through January 4, 2026
Museum of Natural and Cultural History
Free and open to the public
 
Sponsored by Chachalu Tribal Museum and Cultural Center, Native Arts and Cultures Foundation, Oregon Community Foundation, and New Expressive Work. 
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.
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