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Citizen Indigenous || Radcliffe Institute

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Channel: Harvard University · 2018 · Education

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Leading members from the Oneida Nation, Citizen Potawatomi Nation, and United Houma Nation of Louisiana discuss vital issues of tribal citizenship in Indian Country. By exploring topics such as constitutional reform, tribal enrollment, blood quantum, and descendancy, the speakers discuss the many different ways Native tribes and nations define, grant, and express indigenous citizenship.

FEATURING
Norbert Hill (Oneida Nation) (40:08), former director of education, Oneida Nation of Wisconsin; founder, Winds of Change, American Indian Science and Engineering Society, and The American Indian Graduate Magazine, American Indian Graduate Center; Lifetime Achievement Award, National Action Council for Minorities in Engineering

Olivia Hoeft (Oneida Nation) (10:00), associate product marketing manager, Google; former Miss Oneida, 2014–2015

Tesia Zientek (Citizen Potawatomi Nation) (21:07), director, Department of Education, Citizen Potawatomi Nation

Moderated by N. Bruce Duthu (United Houma Nation of Louisiana) (8:15), Samson Occom Professor of Native American Studies and Frank J. Guarini Associate Dean of the Faculty for International Studies & Interdisciplinary Programs, Dartmouth College

Introduced by 
Sean O’Donnell, associate director of Academic Ventures, Radcliffe Institute

Shelly Lowe (Navajo) (2:01), executive director, Harvard University Native American Program

PANEL DISCUSSION (1:01:24)
AUDIENCE Q&A (1:11:14)

This program was cosponsored by the Harvard University Native American Program and the Harvard Project on American Indian Economic Development’s Honoring Nations program.

For information about the Radcliffe Institute and its many public programs, visit https://www.radcliffe.harvard.edu/.

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