Native American Resistance and Interventions
PLEASE NOTE: The location of the event has moved to the Humanities Auditorium in the Edwards Humanities Building, with a reception in the Margaret Fowler Garden.
Scripps College, along with all of the Claremont Colleges, sits on ancestral Tongva land, the original in-habitants of the LA Basin area. This event brings together a panel of notable scholars and leaders from Indian country such as Roberta Cordero, Leo Killsback, Charlotte Cote and Arnold Thomas to address various angles of the Spring Humanities Institute theme, “Raced/Gendered/Classed Violence in the USA.” They will present on the genocide of California Indians, decolonization as a method of healing and liberation, traditional food practices and revitalization, personal resiliency, and the importance of indigenous cultures and traditions.
This event will also feature a poetry reading from local poet, Michaelsun Knapp, a blessing from Tongva elder, Julia Bogany, the Ohlone Bear Clan Drummers, the Sherman Indian High School White Rose Singers and Torres Martinez Birdsingers. Collectively, they will provide the grounds for a discus-sion about the ongoing resistance to raced/gendered/classed violence affecting Native communities to-day.
The Wildhorse Café will provide the best Indian Tacos and Frybread in California.
This program is presented in partnership with the Office of Public Events and Community Programs, IndigeNA-TION and Pomona College Native Initiatives.