by Nicole Chávez (Staff Writer) On Wednesday the 7th, students gathering in the kitchen of La Casa were greeted by the thick smell of spiced Abuelita hot chocolate, Shakira on blast, and light, sugary pan dulce. De Colores, an affinity student group for queer Latinx students on campus, was hosting its first meeting after a…
Month: September 2016
A Conversation: Rick Bartow and Native Art at Yale
by Haylee Kushi (Staff Writer) On Wednesday September 7, Katherine McCleary ’18 (Apsáalooke/Chippewa-Cree) and Yale American Decorative Arts Ph. D. candidate Sequoia Miller facilitated a conversation about the late Native artist Rick Bartow and this summer’s Native American Arts internship based at the Yale University Art Gallery (YUAG). Rick Bartow was a contemporary Native American…
Are Pacific Islanders Indigenous?
by Haylee Kushi (Staff Writer, Native Hawaiian) In 1990, the United States federal government tacked Pacific Islanders onto its census designation “Asian American or Pacific Islander.” This semester, the Yale Native American Cultural Center (NACC) welcomes its first staff member of Pacific Islander heritage, Assistant Director Kapi’olani Laronal (Haida, Tsimpsian, and Native Hawaiian). This raises…
Indigenous Beats: Summer Celebration
by Katie McCleary (Staff Columnist, Apsáalooke/Chippewa-Cree) The Yale Native community is composed of students from different Native nations across the Western Hemisphere. Although Yale Natives spend the summer apart, we continue to exchange indigenous knowledge via social media. Through mini-dialogues and hashtags, we learn about each other in our own words and pictures instead of through…
Vince Staples Releases “Prima Donna” Video
by Karen Marks (Staff Writer) On Thursday, September 1st, Vince Staples dropped the video for his second EP “Prima Donna,” which was released last week. Staples’s videos never lack artistic imagination, and Prima Donna is no exception. More short film than music video, Prima Donna doesn’t just feature one song from Staples’s new album –…