Vincente Diaz Lecture

1880 Campus Drive,Evanston IL 60208

21 October, 2021

Description

Capacious and Well-traveled Vessels: Native Canoe and Water/Sky Knowledge Revitalization for Indigenous Resurgence This talk draws from decades of work in Indigenous canoe revitalization and traditional knowledge systems in Indian country and the Pacific islands region to illustrate the cultural, political, and analytic “stakes” – what’s won and what’s lost – in engaged learning and research around Native water craft and associated knowledge systems. Vicente M. Diaz (Pohnpeian and Filipino from Guam) is the Director of the Native Canoe Program, Department of American Indian Studies, at the University of Minnesota-Twin Cities. An interdisciplinary scholar, Diaz is a leader in canoe culture survival and revitalization in Micronesia (the Central Carolines and the Marianas) in the development of a Native Pacific cultural studies movement, and in national and international efforts to build critical, comparative, and global Indigenous studies.