UNDER THE CAMPUS, THE LAND is a set of public conversations about the place of the U.S. university in Native and settler colonial histories and futures. Organized by Andrew Herscher, these conversations will bring together Native and settler voices speaking to and about the university around four themes: reckoning with the settler university, advancing Native student activism, investigating university land, and making amends to the land. These conversations will take place in conjunction with two exhibitions at the University of Michigan Museum of Art: Andrea Carlson’s Future Cache, which commemorates the Cheboiganing Band of Ottawa and Chippewa people who were violently displaced from land in Northern Michigan now owned by the University of Michigan, and Cannupa Hanska Luger’s You’re Welcome, which explores histories and narratives of land occupied by the University of Michigan.
Making Amends to the Land
How to move beyond acknowledgments of land histories to restoring right relations with the land after its Native relatives have been forcibly displaced?
Panel
David Michener, Curator, University of Michigan, Matthaei Botanical Gardens & Nichols Arboretum, Heritage Seeds Project
Andrea Knutson, Associate Professor, Native American Heritage Site, Oakland University
Eric Hemenway (Little Traverse Bay Band Odawa), Department of Repatriation, Archives, and Records, Little Traverse Bay Bands
Respondent
Shiloh Maples, Anishinaabe community organizer, seed keeper, and storyteller, Food sovereignty organizer and “Spirit Plate” podcast host
12:00 p.m. – 1:30 p.m.
RELATED EVENTS & EXHIBITIONS
October 26, 5:30 p.m.: Cannupa Hanska Luger: How Do We Remember? A conversation with Monument Lab Co-Founder Paul Farber, Michigan Theater, 603 E. Liberty, Ann Arbor, MI
October 27, 5:00 p.m.: Under the Campus, the Land – 2023 Binda Lecture: Keynote by Tristan Ahtone
October 28, 12:00 – 4:00 p.m.: Memory & Monuments Open House
October 28, 3:00 – 4:00 p.m.: Live podcast recording of Broken Boxes by Ginger Dunnill and Cannupa Hanska Luger, with artists Andrea Carlson and Matika Wilbur, UMMA
October 28, 6:00 p.m.: Matika Wilbur Artist Talk and Book Signing, Stamps Gallery, 201 S. Division, Ann Arbor, MI
October 26 – 28: Andrea Carlson Future Cache, UMMA
October 26 – 28: Cannupa Hanska Luger You’re Welcome, UMMA
Related events & exhibitions coordinated as part of the Memory & Monuments Weekend program of the Arts & Resistance Theme Semester, organized by UMMA and the U-M Arts Initiative in partnership with the Stamps Gallery and Taubman College of Architecture & Urban Planning faculty Andrew Herscher.
