The project team of “LandGrab CT,” an interactive website produced by UConn’s Greenhouse Studios in conjunction with the Native American Cultural Programs (NACP) and Native American and Indigenous Students Association (NAISA), will facilitate two engaging events during the second week of October for Indigenous Peoples’ Week:
The NACP and NAISA will host Tristan Ahtone and Bobby Lee, creators of the Land Grab U project, as keynote speakers, which will be held virtually via Zoom on Thursday, October 14th, 2021 at 4pm.
The Encounters Series will facilitate a dialogue titled Encounters: Land Grab CT: A Dialogue on UConn’s Colonial History, which will be held virtually via Zoom on Friday, October 15th, 2021 at 12-2pm. Registration will be capped at 40 participants.
The keynote event will address the wealth and land accumulation built through the dispossession of Indigenous people and how they are tied to the Land Grant university system through the Morrill Act of 1862. Rather than the common panel discussion with a standard question and answer pattern, the keynote will preempt the in-depth, participatory Encounters Series dialogue, which will take place on the following day. The dialogue event will be held virtually the next day in conjunction with the Democracy and Dialogues initiative of Dodd Impact and the Human Rights Institute. Both events are open to the UConn Community and the dialogue is capped at 40 participants. Participants can register for one or both events here, and . Members of the UConn community are also encouraged to further explore these themes through the LandGrab CT website, which will launch on Indigenous Peoples’ Day, Monday, October 11th.
To register for either or both events, please click here.
For more information, contact: Greenhouse Studios at greenhousestudios@uconn.edu