A collaboration between Students for Justice in Palestine, Jewish Voice for Peace, and Tree of Life brought activists Nadya Tannous and Amanda Weatherspoon to New Haven for a stop in their 18-city speaking tour “No Child Behind Bars: Living Resistance from the US to Palestine” on February 1st. Tannous and Weatherspoon were originally set to…
by Haylee Kushi and Bobby Pourier 1. The term “Indigenous” encompasses a vast range of cultures, lands, languages, and peoples. Hence, Indigenous Peoples’ – emphasis on the apostrophe after the “s” – Day. 2. Even within the United States, American Indians hail from different tribal communities with distinct histories and cultures. 3. We celebrate Indigenous…
by Haylee Kushi (Staff Writer) The Yale Peabody Museum is celebrating its 150th anniversary with the installment of the exhibition: “Identity, Difference, and Understanding: Lessons from Oceania and Southeast Asia” at the PEABODY2, a one-room museum on the corner of York and Elm, a space offered to the Peabody Museum by Yale’s Office of New…
by Haylee Kushi (Staff Writer) Disney is marching out a new kind of heroine for its next princess movie – a young woman with no romantic interest, a thicker body frame, and fierce pride in her cultural heritage. In the trailer for Moana released on September 15th, Disney promises to celebrate Pacific Islander cultures. Yet despite the…
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…