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Many Nations Longhouse 2024-25 Culture Night Schedule 2024-25
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 Poster, Wednesdays, 1:30-3:30 pm, Many Nations Longhouse
Native Engagement Time

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 Community Hours, Thursdays, 3-5pm, Many Nations Longhouse
Home Flight Community Hours
Thursdays, 3-5 pm
Many Nations Longhouse
 
For more information contact jorneyb at uoregon.edu
Illustration: The Land We Have Always Known, Special Collections Exhibit, Oct. 14-end of Fall term
"The Land We Have Always Known," a Fall Exhibit Curated by Marisol Peters (Karuk)

Knight Library Special Collections, 2nd Floor

Exhibit open through end of Fall 2024

This exhibit, guest-curated by University of Oregon student Marisol Peters (class of 2027, Karuk), explores Indigenous land relationships in Oregon and the Pacific Northwest. Working at the intersections between the land, water, culture and history, "The Land We Have Always Known" asks us to re-evaluate our beliefs about our more-than-human relatives and consider ways in which we can heal our world by changing the way we relate to the land.
Native American Arts & Crafts Makers Poster
Native American Arts and Crafts Makers
First Sunday of the Month
10 am - 4 pm 
Farmers Market Pavilion 
85 E 8th Ave, Eugene
 
December 14 & 15
10 am - 4 pm
Amazon Community Center
2700 Hillyard St, Eugene
 
Visit us at naacm.org!
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"‘Change in the Winds’: Native American Self-Determination and Human Rights During the Carter Administration," an OHC Works-in-Progress Talk with Dr. Jennifer O'Neal (Grand Ronde)
Friday, March 7, 2025
12:00-1:00 pm
OHC Conference Room (PLC 159)
Register here! 
 
Between 1975-1980, after major public takeovers of the Red Power movement, Native American activism shifted significantly from a domestic agenda to an international Indigenous initiative in the fight for sovereignty, self-determination, and human rights. My project explores how Native American activists and organizations, namely the National Congress of the American Indian and the Bureau of Indian Affairs, utilized international human rights frameworks like the Helsinki Accords to bring attention to the human rights violations against Native Americans and influence emerging policies during the Carter Administration.
Whittle Landback Lecture Poster, March 12, 4:30 pm, Knight Library Browsing Room
Landback: A Conversation between Joe Whittle, Kanim Moses-Conner, Marisol Peters, Brian Bull, and Torsten Kjellstrand 
Tuesday, March 11, 2025
Conversation: 4:30-6:00 pm, Knight Library Browsing Room
Reception: 6:00-7:00 pm, Special Collections & University Archives
 
Speakers:  
  • Joe Whittle (Caddo), photographer and creator of LANDBACK: RETURNING PUBLIC LANDS TO NATIVE AMERICANS, a four-part photojournalism project documenting the Landback Movement
  • Kanim Moses-Conner (Nez Perce) great-great-great grandnephew of the legendary Chief Joseph and a favorite subject/ collaborator of Whittle’s 
  • Marisol Peters (Karuk), co-director of the Native American Student Union and third-year NAIS and public policy program undergraduate student
  • Torsten Kjellstrand, Professor of Practice, School of Journalism & Communications
  • Brian Bull (Nez Perce), Assistant Professor, School of Journalism  
     
    Joe Whittle will be launching his Landback project, wherein he explores the compelling reasons why federal lands should be returned to Native Americans, “as a matter of addressing climate change, conservation, reparations, and a legal requirement due to the unconstitutional violation of every treaty the US ever signed with Native Americans.” Special Collections & University Archives is currently exhibiting several of Whittle’s photographs in an exhibition curated by student Marisol Peters, "The Land We Have Always Known," and is planning to acquire the Landback work for the archive.
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"Ada Bradley Millican and Harwood Hall: US Indian Boarding Schools, Salvage Anthropology, and Basketry Collections in Oregon," with David Lewis (Grand Ronde) and Vera Keller
Thursday, March 13, 2025
6:00 pm
Museum of Natural and Cultural History, Galleria
Open to the public
 
Included with regular admission; free for MNCH members and UO ID card holders. Show your Oregon Trail or other EBT card for an admission discount.
NW Scientific Assn Annual Meeting Poster
"Cascading Changes: Understanding and Managing Natural Systems," Northwest Scientific Association 25th Annual Meeting
March 17-20, 2025
University of Oregon 
 
Plenary Speakers: David G. Lewis (Anthropology, Oregon State University); Jerry Franklin . (Forest Ecology Emeritus, University of Washington); Katharine Cashman (Volcanology, University of Oregon) 
 
Abstract submissions open January 6. Student grant applications due January 20. 
 
Visit northwestscience.org for more information.
Native American and Indigenous Listening Session Poster. QR Code for RSVP
Native American and Indigenous Listening Session
Monday, March 17, 2025
5:30-7:30 pm
RSVP to the QR code in the poster
 
Co-organized by the Native American Arts and Crafts Makers (NAACM) and the Eugene Office of Equity and Community Engagement (OECE). 
Living With Fire, Film Screening and Panel, March 20, 6:30 pm, Art House Theatre Eugene
Living with Fire: Films and Panel, presented by Encircle Films
Thursday, March 20, 2025
6:30 pm
Art House Theatre, Eugene, OR
 
Click the link above for ticket information. 
LCC Powwow, April 5, 2025, LCC Coliseum 12pm, 7pm
LCC NASA Powwow
Saturday, April 5, 2025
LCC Titan Coliseum, Eugene, OR
Grand Entries: 12 pm, 7 pm
Salmon Feast: 5 pm
 
Free and Open to the Public. All are welcome! 
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SAVE THE DATE: Limits and Possibilities of Cross-Border Latinidades & Indigeneities
Thursday, April 24, 2025
Noon-5 pm
Ford Lecture Hall, Jordan Schnitzer Museum of Art
University of Oregon
 
 
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Native/Indigenous Graduation 2025
Saturday, June 14, 2025
2:00-3:30 pm
Straub Hall, University of Oregon
 
 
If you are student graduating we have a firm deadline of January 31st to ensure that we have enough time to order stoles. Please RSVP to the 2025 Native Graduation Celebration Survey and send questions to Norma Trefren (ntrefren at uoregon.edu).