Event Details
Join us on Monday, December 12 at 12:00 p.m. for a conversation facilitated by Cedric Woods on the National Day of Mourning as an entry point to dialogue on historic and contemporary Indigenous Peoples of the Commonwealth. This will include a viewing and reflection of a brief film on the National Day of Mourning, presentation on the contemporary demographics of the Native community in the Commonwealth, and dialogue on the complexities of responsibility for the ongoing impacts of historic actions and erasure of Indigenous communities, Indigenous resistance and resilience, and what this could mean for the UMass system as part of its effort to be a more just and equitable educational institution.
Closed captions and a transcript will be provided by a Certified Realtime Captioner.
Speaker Bio
Cedric Woods is a citizen of the Lumbee Tribe of North Carolina. He combines over a decade of tribal government experience with a research background, and is the founding director of UMass Boston’s Institute for New England Native American Studies and Graduate Program Director of the MS in Critical Ethnic and Community Studies.
The institute's purpose is to connect Native New England with university research, innovation, and education. Currently, Cedric is working on projects with tribes in the areas of tribal government capacity building, Indian education, economic development, and substance misuse prevention.
He holds a B.A. in Political Science from UNC-Chapel Hill, a M.A. in Political Science from the University of Arizona-Tucson, and Ph.D. in Anthropology from the University of Connecticut.
New Resource: Supporting Indigenous People Page on UMassp.edu
The President's Office DEIA Team has pulled together several resources on how to support the Indigenous Community, including local organizations, Indigenous events, and books by Indigenous authors. If you have any recommended resources to add to the page, please contact the DEIA Communications team through the email provided in the Questions section below.
Access the Supporting Indigenous People page.
Thank you to the Event Committee
Thank you to our 2022 Native American Heritage Month and National Day of Mourning Event Committee for their continued work compiling resources this month - Kristina England, Débora D. Ferreira, Sara MacKenzie, Megan Momtaheni, and Chanda Wolf.
Interested in becoming a DEIA Program volunteer? Complete our DEIA Program Volunteer form.