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Humanities Council awards grant to launch Native American & Indigenous Studies Working Group
Diya Kraybill, The Daily Princetonian
December 20, 2020
Read about the launch of the Native American & Indigenous Studies Working Group, led by Sarah Rivett, Professor of English and American Studies.
“Days after the University announced the creation of an endowed professorship of Indigenous Studies, the Humanities Council awarded an Exploratory Grant in Collaborative Humanities to Professor of English and American Studies Sarah Rivett. The grant will enable Rivett to launch the Native American and Indigenous Studies Initiative (NAISIP), which will include a working group for the next academic year.”
“The working group will build upon Rivett’s previous collaborations with the student group Natives at Princeton (NAP), the Princeton Indigenous Advocacy Coalition (PIAC), and the Native American Alumni of Princeton.”
Last month, Native students at Princeton embraced activism. Now, they’re looking ahead
Marissa Michaels, The Daily Princetonian
December 7, 2020
Check out this feature article of Natives at Princeton and our advocacy work in The Daily Princetonian!
“We will no longer be silenced and ignored. Native and Indigenous peoples are here and present at Princeton more than ever,” it continued. “We have decided to dedicate this year’s Native American Heritage Month to activism, awareness, and the unheard voices of Native and Indigenous peoples in the continual fight for equity.”
Princeton establishes professorship of Indigenous Studies with $5 million gift from Wendy and Eric Schmidt ’76
December 4, 2020
This article in The Daily Princetonian elaborates on the Wendy and Eric Schmidt’s donation to establish an endowed chair in Indigenous studies, paying due attention to the central role of the Native American Alumni, specifically A-dae Romero-Briones ’03, in making this endowed professorship a reality. While acknowledging supreme appreciation for the Schmidt’s gift, Natives at Princeton and the Native American Alumni expressed that this cannot be the end of the University’s commitment to Indigenous studies.
“The University needs to take initiative and invest funding and resources and not just wait for donors” says Natives at Princeton co-president Jessica Lambert ’22.
“This is the beginning of the invitation,” Romero-Briones said. “This is the invitation for the community to really understand and start talking about how Indigenous students and people and communities contribute to not only scholarship in the U.S., but to Princeton itself as an institution.”
Eric and Wendy Schmidt endow new professorship of Indigenous studies at Princeton
December 3, 2020
“A new professorship of Indigenous studies, endowed by a $5 million gift from Wendy Schmidt and her husband, Eric Schmidt, a 1976 alumnus, will build on Princeton’s interdisciplinary strengths and expand its faculty expertise in an area of study that is critically important to the University.”
“Eric and I are deeply committed to developing the next generation of leaders and identifying and cultivating talent from all backgrounds — priorities that are closely aligned with Princeton’s,” said Wendy Schmidt, president of The Schmidt Family Foundation. “The thoughtful study of Indigenous cultures is an essential component of society’s reckoning with our own history. It’s our hope that this professorship will play a vital role in advancing that complex conversation and will extend and complement Princeton’s academic and co-curricular activities, including those that engage and amplify the voices of faculty, students and alumni from Indigenous backgrounds.”
Natives at Princeton Statement on Activism and Advocacy
November 27, 2020
Instead of celebrating Native American Heritage Month, this year Natives at Princeton has decided to focus on activism and advocacy. Read our whole statement below.
It’s past time for Princeton to advocate for Native students
Jessica Lambert (Choctaw Nation), The Daily Princetonian
November 12, 2020
“It’s clear that students and alumni are at the forefront of this push — but it isn’t our job to make sure the University is adequately supporting us. We shouldn’t have to be the ones to hold the University accountable for the gaping hole of support for Native students. The sum of our efforts can’t substitute for institutional acknowledgment and support.
Standing up for Native students does not just mean rhetoric or symbolic representation. Princeton students and faculty yearn for a dedicated space to come together and develop our growing and vibrant community. Princeton needs to dedicate institutional support, specifically funding, physical space, staff, and faculty, to ensure that this community and this field flourish.”
Indigenous Students at Princeton Explore Nuclear Age Legacies
Princeton Program on Science and Global Security
October 5, 2020
Nuclear Princeton: Indigenous scholarship and representation in an institution ‘not designed’ for Native students
Hannah Reynolds, The Daily Princetonian
October 4, 2020
