Fall 2024 Programming
Tailinh Agoyo: The Warrior Project
Join us for an inspiring event featuring Tailinh Agoyo from We Are The Seeds, an Indigenous organization based in Philadelphia. Tailinh will present "The Warrior Project," her powerful series featuring Indigenous youth reflecting on environmental challenges impacting their lands and communities. Presented by the IC Indigenous Heritage Month Committee & Lang Center Native Indigenous Peoples Program. Come for the boba, stay for the powerful stories and insights! Sponsored by Lang Center for Civic and Social Responsibility, Intercultural Center, Diversity and Inclusion Committee (SGO).
Spring 2024 Programming
"Powerlands" Film Screening
Powerlands (2022) is a new, award-winning documentary produced by Ivey Camille Many Beads Tso (Navajo, Dine) on Indigenous women's environmental justice/climate justice activism. Manybeads Tso travels around the world focusing on Indigenous women's anti-colonial and EJ activism in the US (Black Mesa, Navajo reservation), in Columbia, and in the Philippines. This event is part of Resisting Extraction and Building Resillience on the Navajo Nation, a symposium that works to raise awareness about the ongoing colonial impacts of and resistance to extractive industries on the Navajo Nation and surrounding region.
Resisting Extraction and Building Resilience on the Navajo Nation
This one-day Symposium brings together a panel of Navajo (Diné) speakers to discuss their advocacy work to raise awareness about the ongoing colonial impacts of and resistance to extractive industries on the Navajo Nation and surrounding region. Collectively these speakers represent a cross-generational voice bringing diverse perspectives to the issues. Our speakers will share both how they fight against unrelenting social and environmental injustices on Navajo territories, and how they work to reclaim and rebuild decolonial futures.
The Symposium’s agenda will include a film screening, panel presentations, class visits, and an interactive roundtable discussion designed to bring awareness and understanding to the Swarthmore College community about Native American and Indigenous Peoples struggling with environmental injustices as place-based peoples with deep reciprocal relationships to their lands and the natural world that is informed by their cultural worldview and cultural practices.
Indigenous Speaker Series
Over the course of the 2021-2022 academic year, Swarthmore held an Indigenous speaker series. This series was geared towards bringing nationally known scholars, activists, and respected elders to share wisdom on Native Nations & Indigenous Studies programs, and current issues in general. Details and recordings of these events can be found here.
