Events:
The Mashantucket Pequot Museum & Research Center
110 Pequot Trail
Mashantucket, CT 06338
www.pequotmuseum.org
Saturday, Feb. 27, 11 am-12 noon
Hawaiian Blood: Colonialism and the Politics of Sovereignty and Indigeneity
Dr. J. Kehaulani Kauanui, associate professor of American Studies at Wesleyan University, leads a discussion of her recent book, Hawaiian Blood: Colonialism and the Politics of Sovereignty and Indigeneity. Recommended for ages 16 and older. Free with Museum admission, free to Museum members. High school and college students receive $2 admission discount with student ID.
Saturday, Feb. 27, 1 pm-4 pm
Sovereignty and Indigenous Rights
Dr. Kauanui, associate professor of American Studies at Wesleyan University, moderates this important discussion. Panelists include John Echohawk, president and founder of Native American Rights Foundation; James Jackson, Mashantucket Pequot tribal councilor; Jackson King, general council for Mashantucket Pequot Tribal Nation; Betsy Conway, legal council for Mashantucket Pequot Tribal Nation; and Dr. Cedric Woods, director (interim) of the Institute for New England Native American Studies, UMass Boston. For ages 16 and older. Free with Museum admission, free to Museum members. High school and college students receive $2 admission discount with student ID.
HAPA - Hawaiian Group
@
Iron Horse Music Hall
20 Center Street
North Hampton, MA 01060
www.iheg.com
Thursday March 17th
& @
Narrow Center for the Arts
16 Anawan St.
Fall River, MA 02721
www.ncfta.org
Friday March 18th
Hapa will be playing at the Iron Horse Music Hall in Northampton, MA on Thursday March 18th at 7:00 p.m.
Tickets are $15 in advance and $18 at the door.
Hapa is also playing the next night, Friday March 19th at 8:00 p.m. at the Narrow Center for the Arts in Fall River, MA.
Tickets are $22 in advance and $25 at the door.
Springstep
Polynesian Dance & Music: Tahitian & Hawaiian
with Mahea Uchiyama
98 George P. Hassett Drive
Medford, MA 02155
springstep.org
Sunday, April 25, 2010
Travel 6,500 miles to the middle of the pacific and learn about the music, dance, and culture of Tahiti and Hawai’i with Mahea Uchiyama. In this fun, interactive workshop, you will get a glimpse of just a few of the beautiful dances of the pacific islands and then will get up and try them out yourself! You will learn enchanting Hawaiian Hula and song, the lively Ori dance of Tahiti, and even how to tie a Tahitian Pareu, or sarong! Come warm up in the Pacific islands of Hawai’i and Tahiti and learn a little bit about these two very different beautiful cultures.
Hui Anuenue Meetings:
TBA
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