Past Events

2024-2025:

Roo George-Warren, Catawba Nation, Artist, linguist, and food sovereignty activist. George-Warren is a founding member of Dútα Bαhiisere Kus Ráˀhere/We Know Corn Together, the collaboration between the Catawba Nation and Davidson College.

Marie Watt, Seneca Nation of Indians, interdisciplinary contemporary artist specializing in community collaborations that foster the sharing of collective memories and storytelling.

Michaela Goade, Tlingit and Haida, artist, author, and activist who is the award-winning illustrator of We Are Water Protectors, I Sang You Down from the Stars, Encounter, and Shanyaak’utlaax: Salmon Boy

2023-2024:

Bill Harris, former Chief of the Catawba Indian Nation

Angela Ferguson, Onondaga Nation, Traditional Corn Grower

Loretta Barrett Oden, Potawatomi Tribe, Chef and Native foods historian

2022-2023:

Dr. Robin Wall Kimmerer, Citizen Potawatomi, Distinguished Teaching Professor and Director, Center for Native Peoples and the Environment, State University of New York College of Environmental Science and Forestry, 2023 Davidson College Reynolds Lecturer

Dave Smoke-McCluskey, Mohawk, Chef, Founder of Corn Mafia

Dr. Brooke Bauer, Catawba Nation, Assistant Professor of American History, The University of Tennessee Knoxville

Dr. Mary Elizabeth Fitts, Adjunct Assistant Professor of Anthropology and Archaeology, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

2021-2022:

Nicholas Galanin, Tlingit and Unangax̂, artist and musician