04/16/2026
Please see the below description and poster for the annual Native American and Indigenous Studies x Native Crossroads Symposium on May 1, 2026 at Hampshire College. There will be a keynote from Danika Medak-Saltzman (Native and Indigenous Studies and WGS at Syracuse), who researches colonial archives and sovereignty in Hokkaido.
«Remembering into Kinship: Unlearning Settler Ways» is an interdisciplinary symposium that brings together educators, scholars, artists, students, and community members committed to reimagining education beyond colonial impositions. Grounded in Indigenous perspectives on relationality, reciprocity, and place-based pedagogy, this gathering invites participants to critically examine how settler colonial logics shape our institutions, curriculum, and interpersonal relationships. Through dialogue, storytelling, and collective praxis, the symposium centers the work of unlearning, dislodging, and abolishing extractive, individualistic, and hierarchical modes of thought, calling us to re-center kinship, responsibility, and interdependence. Together, we ask: what does it mean to re-member otherwise, and how might education become a site of resurgence?
