Campus Roundtable: Tribal Identities, Past and Present (first of two events)

Thursday, October 26, 2023 5:00 PM to 6:30 PM EDT
Merten 1202

Please join us for an in person campus roundtable on Tribal Identities, Past and Present. The event will feature four presentations and what promises to be a dynamic discussion.

Learn more about how this event fits into the project, "IndigenoUs Northern Virginia," funded by the Office of the Provost, below.

Opening remarks by Ann Ardis (Dean, CHSS) and Alison Landsberg (Director, CHR)

Moderator: 

Gabrielle Tayac (Piscataway; Associate Professor, History and Art History)

Panelists:

Schirra Gray (Piscataway)

Dorothy Gray (Rappahannock) 

Joe Gaines (Choctaw)

Janine Hubai

 

IndigenoUs Northern Virginia: Activating Local and Diasporic Native Identities at Mason, generously funded by an ARIE Seed Grant, brings the Mason student body into contact with site-specific and community-based indigenous knowledge and history to activate a too-often submerged Native American presence in our region. For it is the case that from the ground up, on Doeg and Piscataway ancient lands to the centuries present, intertribal American Indian population to the dynamic diasporic Latin American indigenous communities, Northern Virginia is a Native place. 

For our first phase, we launched a Summer Institute to bring together Mason undergraduate researchers and community knowledge holders through a three-week round of field experiences. Now, for our second phase, we are bringing knowledge holders to campus to participate in roundtables open to the entire Mason community. Roundtable participants will engage in conversations based on questions developed with two undergraduate history classes. The first roundtable, Tribal Identities Past and Present, features four panelists who will respond to inquiries from Dr. Tayac's Native American History: Ancestors to 1803. Panelists include Janine Hubai, a history doctoral candidate who will present her new research about a 17th century Doeg boy held captive after his family was massacred. Speakers also include Schirra Gray (Piscataway), Dorothy Gray (Rappahannock), and Joe Gaines (Choctaw). 

A second roundtable will be held on November 8. Details here.

 

The Center for Humanities Research is one of Mason's five transdisciplinary centers, jointly sponsored by the Provost's Office and the College of Humanities and Social Sciences.