Dickinson College to Host Lecture on Honoring Indigeneity

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Dan Longboat - Rorohiakewen (He Clears the Sky)

How can Indigenous Knowledge Address Contemporary Issues?

by Kim Flinchbaugh

Indigenous studies scholar Dan Longboat - Roronhiakewen (He Clears the Sky) will explore ways to understand and honor the Indigenous Peoples of the Americas during a  lecture, “Honoring Indigeneity: Indigenous Knowledge(s) and Indigenous Sovereignty,” on Wednesday, Sept. 12, at 7 p.m. in the Anita Tuvin Schlechter (ATS) Auditorium.

Longboat will discuss how, for thousands of years, Indigenous Nations have cared for and actively engaged with the landscape, and how they have worked to create the bio-diverse richness of the Americas. Longboat will explore how Indigenous knowledge can help address contemporary issues and problems.

Longboat is a Turtle Clan member of the Mohawk Nation and a citizen of the Rotinonshón:ni (Haudenosaunee – People of the Longhouse), originally from the Six Nations of the Grand River, the largest First Nations reserve in Canada. He is an associate professor in the Chanie Wenjack School for Indigenous Studies at Trent University in Peterborough, Ontario, Canada, and acting director of the newly formed Indigenous Environmental Institute (IEI). He is the founding director of the Indigenous Environmental Science/Studies program (IESS). Longboat is renowned for his traditional Rotinonshón:ni knowledge and incorporates this into his teachings. He also acts as a cultural advisor and instructor for several programs at the First Nations Technical Institute, Ryerson University and several Ontario universities and colleges. Longboat is an invited lecturer for topics including Indigenous environmental knowledges and philosophy, Indigenous responses to environmental issues, human health and the environment, traditional Indigenous foods and medicines and natural resource development and restoration.

The program is sponsored by the Clarke Forum for Contemporary Issues and co-sponsored by the Churchill Fund and the departments of anthropology & archaeology, American studies and psychology. It is part of the Clarke Forum’s Leadership in an Age of Uncertainty Series and its semester theme, Indigeneity in the Americas.

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Published August 24, 2018