A four by three grid of square photographs representing the various student projects that comprise this year’s annual exhibit, Gather.
WHEN: May 1, 2020.
WHERE: Online
We have created an immersive space where you can explore student exhibits, alongside a version you can explore in a regular browser window. Our opening will be May 1st, from 5-8PM EST - students will be online then to interact with visitors.
Most exhibit content will remain available online throughout the month of May and beyond, for you to explore at your convenience, with channels to respond and ask questions at all times.
At Columbia University we are working on the unceded land of the Lenape people, who were violently dispossessed from this place. We honor their roots here, and the strength it has taken to resist and rebuild both here and elsewhere. Our students created work for this exhibit on the lands of the Lenape, Wappinger, Canarsie, Rockaway, Matinecock, Shatori, Catawba, Coast Salish, Duwamish, Puyallup, Sioux, Miami, Potawatomi, Peoria, Kiikaapoi, Cheyenne, Flathead, Crow, Blackfoot, Shoshone-Bannock, Adena, and Hopewell peoples. (Thank you, Native Land Digital!)
As oral historians, we also acknowledge the roots of our practice in indigenous oral history, and the ways in which our field has excluded indigenous people and practices. This acknowledgement is only the beginning of a process of building honoring indigenous land, people, and knowledge into our practices as oral historians for the purposes of healing, reconciliation, learning, resurgence, and the pursuit of justice.