by Eleanor Pritchett (Arts & Culture Editor) On Wednesday, September 7, Walt Disney Studios hosted a pre-screening of the new movie Queen of Katwe at Yale University and several other universities across the country. Professor Tavia Nyong’o (Theater Studies and American Studies) introduced the movie to the packed theater at Bow Tie Criterion Cinemas on…
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…
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…
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…
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…