Events Calendar
The AIP encourages students, staff, faculty and guests to participate in the diverse events we offer throughout the academic year and during the summer. Please click here for a calendar of events.
Please note that the calendar is updated monthly and all program events may not be listed during time of viewing.
Upcoming Events at a Glimpse:
NASAC Meeting at Akwe:kon - August 31 (5:30PM)
AISES Meeting at Akwe:kon - August 31 (6:30PM)
Past events include:
AIP & Akwe:kon Welcome Back & New Student Orientation
Akwe:kon Discussion Night
Ivy Native Conference
Native Hosting Weekend
AIS Colloquium Series
Washington D.C. Trip
Canandaigua visit
American Indian Program Award Ceremony
Columbus Day Protest
CNAAA Reunion Weekend
Events Archive
AIP Hosts Preparatory Gathering for UN Permanent Forum on Indigenous Issues (UNPFII) and Presents an Evening Discussion for AIS Students
On Saturday, March 7th at Akwe:kon, the AIP had the honor of hosting a roundtable of 18 Haudenosaunee women from various Nations of the Haudenosaunee in the
The roundtable was convened at the request of Tonya Gonnella Frichner (Snipe Clan, Onondaga Nation), who serves as the North American Indigenous Peoples’ member of the UNPFII, and is an advocate for the rights of Indigenous women and girls. Her three-year term will extend from January 8, 2008 until December 2010.
The UNPFII is an advisory body to the United Nations Economic and Social Council (ECOSOC), with a mandate to discuss indigenous issues related to economic and social development, culture, the environment, education, health and human rights. The UNPFII provides expert advice and recommendations on indigenous issues to ECOSOC, as well as to programmes, funds and agencies of the United Nations, through ECOSOC. It also raises awareness about indigenous issues, and promotes the integration and coordination of activities related to indigenous issues within the UN system.
Professor Jolene Rickard (Tuscarora), who teaches Art, History of Art and American Indian Studies at Cornell, served as faculty organizer for the roundtable in collaboration with Agnes F. Williams (Seneca) of Indigenous Women’s Initiatives in
Later that evening, AIP Associate Director, Carol Kalafatic (Quechua-Spanish-Croatian) and Ms. Gonnella Frichner gave a presentation about their experiences within the UNPFII and about opportunities for young scholars in American Indian Studies and other fields to participate in the UNPFII in ways that could enrich their base of knowledge and expand networks of support for indigenous peoples. The students received informational documents and will have the opportunity to benefit from reports, scholarly papers and other aspects of the UNPFII related to their fields of academic interest and cultural commitment to their communities and indigenous peoples as a whole.
Ms. Gonnella Frichner is also Vice Chair of the Seventh Generation Fund for Indian Development, and Founder and President of the American Indian Law Alliance. Ms. Kalafatic has served as a Senior Consultant to the UN Food and Agriculture Organization, and has been advocating for the rights of indigenous peoples within the UN system since 1995. She established the Right to Food Program and “cultural indicators” initiative of the International Indian Treaty Council, and provided training and mentorship to grassroots community members as Coordinator of the Indigenous Peoples’ Caucus at the UN Commission on Sustainable Development.
Professor Kurt Jordan Publishes Book on the Seneca Restoration
The Iroquois confederacy, one of the most influential Native American groups encountered by early European settlers, is commonly perceived as having plunged into a steep decline in the late seventeenth century due to colonial encroachment into the Great Lakes region. Kurt Jordan challenges long-standing interpretations that depict the Iroquois as defeated, colonized peoples by demonstrating that an important Nation of that confederacy, the Senecas, maintained an impressive political and economic autonomy and resisted colonialism with a high degree of success.
By combining archaeological data grounded in the material culture of the Seneca Townley-Read site with historical documents, Jordan answers larger questions about the Seneca’s cultural sustainability and durability in an era of intense colonial pressures. He offers a detailed reconstruction of daily life in the Seneca community and demonstrates that they were extremely selective about which aspects of European material culture, plant and animal species, and lifeways they allowed into their territory.
Dr. Jordan is an assistant professor of anthropology at Cornell University.