Native Americans

Robert Warrior, Hall Distinguished Professor of American Literature and Culture at the University of Kansas, will join Harvard Divinity School for the fall 2024 semester as Visiting Professor of Native American Culture and Traditions. A Native American...

Navajo scholars and advocates spoke about their professional and personal experiences preserving Navajo cultural heritage in an event organized by the Peabody Museum of Archaeology and Ethnology that featured Cynthia Wilson, a fellow at the Religion and...

When Religion and Public Life at Harvard Divinity School launched three years ago, it engendered a new Certificate in Religion and Public Life, providing students the opportunity to develop the knowledge, skills, and networks to leverage their master of...

Artist and Mashpee Wampanoag tribal member Ramona Peters is very crafty with her hands. So much so that she has completed everything from detailed artifact reproductions to stunning artistic commissions, with materials including wood, metal, leather, and...

"A successful co-management model is all about transparency, and having a consensus in sharing of ideas and ways of knowing. We are taught to take care of the land. It’s more of an act of love, not an act of a job," said Cynthia Wilson, Religion and...

Marcus Briggs-Cloud, MTS ’10, has dedicated his life to revitalizing his ancestral tongue and the cultural identity it sustains.

PBS’s latest series, Native America, explores the world created by America’s first peoples. The four-part series, which premieres October 23, reaches back 15,000 years to reveal massive cities aligned to the stars, unique systems of science and...

This monthly public series, convened by Dean David N. Hempton of HDS, brings together a cross-disciplinary RPP Working Group of faculty, experts, students, and alumni from across Harvard University and the local area to explore topics and cases in...

The ongoing destruction of Earth’s natural systems is the result of decisions, made daily, by billions of people. These decisions are voluntary and involuntary at once, collective and personal. Two indigenous leaders—Nainoa Thompson and Angaangaq...