Penn Cultural Heritage Center

Regaining land ownership represents the work of decolonization in practice. This presentation celebrates the restitution of a portion of the original Colfax Rancheria to the Colfax-Todds Valley Consolidated Tribe by a private donor. Our presenters explore their aspirations and hopes for the future of the Tribe, and how their experience can be a model for other tribes seeking to reclaim their home places. Thursday, April 22, 12:30 PM ET/9:30 AM PT Register: bit.ly/3e2t99N

Regaining land ownership represents the work of decolonization in practice. This free virtual presentation celebrates the restitution of a portion of the original Colfax Rancheria to the Colfax-Todds Valley Consolidated Tribe by a private donor. Our presenters explore their aspirations and hopes for the future of the Tribe, and how their experience can be a model for other tribes seeking to reclaim their home places.

On Monday, April 19, the Penn Museum hosts Beyond Land Acknowledgment with Natives at Penn. Natives at Penn (formerly Six Directions) is Penn's Native student organization dedicated to increasing Indigenous awareness and visibility on campus. Join the organization in a round table discussion unpacking land recognition and ways to extend this far beyond verbal recognition. Join current members and special guest speakers in an honest dialogue about land recognition, appropriati...on, and how to effectively support Native communities. Natives at Penn (NAP), founded in 1994, is a student organization representing Native American, Native Hawaiian, and Alaska Native students on Penn's campus, which is on Lenape land. Undergraduate and graduate students meet with university faculty and staff to increase awareness of contemporary Indigenous issues, attend interschool events such as the All-Ivy Native Conference, attend events hosted by local tribes, and host Penn's Annual Powwow. NAP is a member of Penn's United Minorities Council, and is supported by the Albert M. Greenfield Intercultural Center (GIC). Monday, April 19 6:00 PM ET More information and registration: https://www.penn.museum/calend//beyond-land-acknowledgment

Join us on Thursday, April 22 for "Heritage, Rights, and Land Reclamation for California Native American Tribes!" #NativeAmerican tribes across the United States have historically been dispossessed of their reservation lands through legal maneuvering, outright deceit, and formal policy. This land loss is compounded for tribes that also lost their federal status through administrative action or termination laws enacted by Congress. Especially in northeastern #California, whi...ch has a high number of terminated and unrecognized tribes, the restitution of former reservation lands is a way to strengthen communities in the present. Regaining land ownership represents the work of #decolonization in practice. This presentation celebrates the restitution of a portion of the original Colfax Rancheria to the Colfax-Todds Valley Consolidated Tribe by a private donor. Our presenters explore their aspirations and hopes for the future of the Tribe, and how their experience can be a model for other tribes seeking to reclaim their home places. Thursday, April 22, 12:30 PM ET Register: bit.ly/3x030Rx

10/29: Visibility as a Tenet of Social Justice with Jasmine Wahi - https://mailchi.mp//1029-visibility-as-a-tenet-of-social-j

Jasmine Wahi, Holly Block Social Justice Curator of The Bronx Museum of the Arts will speak at our next virtual event, "Visibility as a Tenet for Social Justice," on Thursday, October 29 at 12:30 PM. This lecture explores the complexity of visibility within the institutional exhibition space. Jasmine Wahi will discuss her 'thesis' for her first series of exhibitions at The Bronx Museum of the Arts, which will be celebrating its Fiftieth Anniversary in 2021-2022. Wahi propose...s that visibility is a primary tenet of social justice as a practice, and how her exhibitions explore the dichotomy of gaze, systemic institutional racism, equity, and representation. Using two exhibitions as case studies, one past and one future, she will unpack the inherent problematic aspects of creating exhibitions based on intersectionality and identity. Register for this free online event: bit.ly/341WXQc

There's still time to register! This free online panel discussion will center on the ongoing activist movement in #Richmond and the themes of racial justice, the power of monumentality, and the ongoing work being done to understand, grapple with, and reconfigure historical interpretation in public spaces. Thu, Oct 8, 12:30 PM ET https://bit.ly/2FRtmzv #RVA #BlackLivesMatter #monuments #culturalheritage #BLM

We're just days away from "Lost Cause, Potential Futures: Rethinking Confederate Monuments in Richmond, Virginia." This free virtual discussion brings together artists, activists, and historians from #Richmond, Virginia to discuss the future of commemoration and #monuments in the era of #BlackLivesMatter. Thu, 10/8, 12:30 PM Register at: bit.ly/2FRtmzv... Penn Museum Untold RVA Jamestown Settlement / American Revolution Museum at Yorktown Style Weekly SAPIENS

The Richmond Times-Dispatch featured Lost Cause, Potential Futures: Rethinking Confederate Monuments in Richmond, Virginia. The virtual discussion will be held on Thursday, October 8, 12:30 PM ET. Register now for this free event!

We're only one week from "Lost Cause, Potential Futures: Rethinking Public Monuments in Richmond, Virginia." Register now for this free, virtual discussion about racial justice and monumentality in Richmond: http://bit.ly/2FRtmzv #culturalheritage #monuments #museums #RVA #Richmond SAPIENS Penn Museum University of Pennsylvania Untold RVA Jamestown Settlement / American Revolution Museum at Yorktown Society for American Archaeology American Anthropological Association Society of Black Archaeologists

Our first virtual event of the semester is next week! Have you registered for "Lost Cause, Potential Futures: Rethinking Confederate Monuments in Richmond, Virginia"? Among our speakers for the event is Alex Criqui, a writer, artist, and musician living in Richmond, Virginia. As a student of history, Alex has extensively studied race in the American South and the history of Richmond, Virginia in the Civil War and Jim Crow eras. For more information and to register, visit: penn.museum/calendar/539/lost-cause-potential-futures

Have you registered for "Lost Cause, Potential Futures"? Among our speakers for the event is Free Egunfemi Bangura, an independent historical strategist and social innovator from Richmond, VA. Free has been credited as the originator of the international Commemorative Justice movement. Her work focuses on the reclamation of traditional African ancestral remembrance rituals and the harnessing of that energy to stimulate the Black creative economy. In 2013, she founded Untold R...VA and Untold Tours to inspire non-traditional audiences with bold typography, audio enhanced street art, and urban exploration. Bangura is a 2019-20 Soros Equality Fellow with Open Society Foundations, a 2019 Monument lab fellow and she serves as the chair of the City of Richmond's History and Culture Commission. For more information and to register, visit penn.museum/calendar/539/lost-cause-potential-futures

Have you registered for "Lost Cause, Potential Futures"? Among our speakers for the event is Christy S. Coleman, Executive Director of the Jamestown Settlement / American Revolution Museum at Yorktown. With a career spanning over 30 years, Ms. Coleman has served as the Chief Executive Officer of some of the nation’s most prominent museums. She’s a tireless advocate for the power of museums, narrative correction, diversity and inclusiveness. Ms. Coleman is an innovator and lea...der in the museum field having held leadership roles at the Colonial Williamsburg Foundation, the Charles H. Wright Museum of African American History, the American Civil War Museum and now the Jamestown-Yorktown Foundation. She’s written numerous articles, is an accomplished screenwriter, public speaker and has appeared on several national news and history programs. Ms. Coleman is the recipient of numerous awards including Honorary Doctorates from The College of William and Mary, Virginia Commonwealth University and the University of the South for her decades of impact. In 2018, Time Magazine named her one of the 31 People Changing the South and Worth Magazine named her one of 29 Women Changing the World. For more information and to register, visit penn.museum/calendar/539/lost-cause-potential-futures

Registration is open for our next virtual public event! Learn more and register at: www.penn.museum/calendar/539/lost-cause-potential-futures