Our Spring 2019 speaker series, “Archives in Crisis,” aims to provide an in-depth course on how to respond to archiv
Indigenous Environmental Activism and Preservation of Native History
Mon, 03/04/2019 - 5:50pmThis Friday, March 8, 1:00-3:00 pm
Nakai Northup of the Mashantucket Pequot Museum and Research Center will lecture on Indigenous Environmental Activism and Preservation of Native History
Nakai Clearwater Northup is a Member of the Mashantucket Pequot Tribe and works at the Mashantucket Pequot Museum and Research Center in the Education Department. In addition to his work at the museum, Northup is Vice Chairman of the Mashantucket Pequot Tribe’s Natural Resource Protection Committee. His disciplinary specialties include historic preservation, environmental Indigenous activism, food sovereignty, and teaching traditional Eastern woodland histories/lifeways.
This event is part of the Archives in Crisis Workshop Series