June 4, 2024—Hanover, N.H.—The Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth, will present the first major solo museum exhibition of photographs by artist Cara Romero (Chemehuevi / American). Curated by Hood Museum Associate Director of Curatorial Affairs and Curator of Indigenous Art Dr.
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Morgan Talty '16 (Penobscot) publishes a second book this June, Fire Exit (Tin House Books). Talty is an assistant professor of English in Creative Writing and Native American and Contemporary Literature at the University of Maine in Orono, and he teaches at Stonecoast MFA in Creative Writing. He offers a list of Native American books to read this summer in People magazine. Read the full story here.
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Under supervision of Analee C. Villagomez, Nicole Ann Villagomez '26 spent spring term interviewing jewelers on Saipan. She reports "From these interviews, I have learned about the larger idea of shell jewelry and body ornamentation in Ancient Chamorro society. I have explored Bayogo the Historic Preservation Office on the island as well as the archives at the local community college to further my research.
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The faculty and staff of the Department of Native American and Indigenous Studies condemn the violent arrests and use of militarized force against peaceful demonstrators that took place on the Green of Dartmouth College on the evening of May 1. We support the right of our students, Native and non-Native, to exercise their rights of free speech publicly and peacefully, and we protest the arrests of nine Native students who were taking a moral and political stand against genocide in Gaza.
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Professor Matt Hooley analyzes the works of five Ojibwe writers and artists through the lens of anticolonialism.
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