Radcliffe: Citizen Indigenous (vital issues of tribal citizenship) - Panel Discussion

Date: 

Monday, March 19, 2018, 4:15pm

Location: 

Sheer room, Fay House, 10 Garden Street, Cambridge, MA

Leading members from the Oneida Nation, Citizen Potawatomi Nation, and United Houma Nation of Louisiana will discuss vital issues of tribal citizenship in Indian Country. By exploring topics such as constitutional reform, tribal enrollment, blood quantum, and descendancy, the speakers will discuss the many different ways Native tribes and nations define, grant, and express indigenous citizenship.
 
This program is cosponsored by the Harvard University Native American Program and the Harvard Project on American Indian Economic Development’s Honoring Nations program.

Free and open to the public.

Please register and join us.

SPEAKERS:


Norbert Hill (Oneida Nation), Former Director of Education, Oneida Nation of Wisconsin; Founder, Winds of Change, American Indian Science and Engineering Society, and The American Indian Graduate Magazine, American Indian Graduate Center; Lifetime Achievement Award, National Action Council for Minorities in Engineering
 
Olivia Hoeft (Oneida Nation), Services Associate, Google; Former Miss Oneida, 2014–2015
 
Tesia Zientek (Citizen Potawatomi Nation), Director, Department of Education, Citizen Potawatomi Nation
 
Moderated by N. Bruce Duthu (United Houma Nation of Louisiana), Samson Occom Professor of Native American Studies and Frank J. Guarini Associate Dean of the Faculty for International Studies & Interdisciplinary Programs, Dartmouth College