American Indian Center Cultural Circle Night: ‘Reel Injun’ documentary showing and discussion rescheduled

Wednesday, March 20 | 4-7 p.m. | American Indian Center (CMU 115) “Reel Injun” is a 2009 Canadian documentary that explore the various stereotypes about Natives in film and outlines the evolution of cinema’s depiction of Native people, panning from the silent film era to today. View hundreds of classic and recent Hollywood movie clips and interviews with celebrated Native and non-Native celebrities, activists, film critics, and […]

1200+

Friday, Nov. 16 | 2 p.m. | King 110 The SoMAD Department is collaborating with the Office of Diversity & Inclusion to host a screening of the 2018 documentary, 1200+. 1200+ covers the current Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women crisis and movement, which has very specific local importance. Producer, Sheila North, Grand Chief of the Manitoba Keewantinowi Okimakanak Tribe, Director Leonard […]

#MMIWG Red Dress Campaign

This year, MSUM’s annual Take Back the Night event on Sept. 20 centers the issue of missing and murdered indigenous women and girls (MMIWG). To raise awareness of cases like Savanna Lafontaine-Greywind’s, we’re asking members of our MSUM community to display a red paperdress in the days leading up to the Sept. 20 event. Drop by Dragon Fest on Tuesday, […]