As part of Native and Indigenous Heritage Month 2022, the Native American Cultural Programs (NACP) and Native American and Indigenous Students Association (NAISA) will be hosting an event called “Chicken and Power: Life, Death, and Dismemberment in the Aftermath of American Genocide,” a talk by David Lowry (Lumbee) on November 15th, 2022, at 6:30 PM in the ODI Commons (Student Union Room 103).
David Shane Lowry is an anthropologist and citizen of the Lumbee Tribe of North Carolina, a gradute of MIT (S.B.) and UNC-Chapel Hill (M.A. and Ph.D.). His graduate work was funded by the National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellowship (NSF-GRF). He is currently a Senior Fellow in the School of Social Policy at Brandeis University. In 2021-2022, he was a Distinguished Felow in Native American Studies at MIT. In this role, David led a new conversation about the responsibilities of MIT (and science/technology education, more broadly) in the theft of Native land and the dismantling of American Indian health and community. Since 2013, David has lectured across the United States in conversations at the intesection of Native America, race, and science/health.
His first book, titled "Lumbee Pipelines: American Indian Movement in the Residue of Settler Colonialism" (University of Nebraska Press), explores American Indian utilization of colonial conditions to create opportunities that are both uplifting and oppressive. He pays some attention to the Lumbee community's relationships with corporate chicken farming. He is beginning a book with MIT Press titled "Indigenous MIT: The Origins of Science and Technology in American Genocide."
Please mark your calendars and join NACP for this event and the rest of our Native and Indigenous Heritage Month celebrations.
For more information, contact: Samantha Gove at samantha.gove@uconn.edu