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Friday, March 22, 2019
\n<\/strong>Huntington Library,\u00a0Haaga Hall
\n1151 Oxford Road, San Marino, CA
\n9:00am to 5:30pm<\/p>\n

Please\u00a0RSVP<\/a>\u00a0by Wednesday, March 20.<\/p>\n

See\u00a0event flyer<\/a>\u00a0for more information.<\/p>\n

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In Uruguay, Argentina, and Brazil, Charr\u00faa activists\u00a0confront public and academic narratives that deny their existence.In Peru, Indigenous activists have long criticized the country’s simultaneous embrace of its Inka heritage and marginalization of its Indigenous people. In the United States, activists, artists, and writers continue to challenge feelings of invisibility with the common refrains, “We are still here” and “You are on Native \/ Indian land.”<\/p>\n

Indigenous peoples throughout the Americas are confronting an imposed invisibility so pervasive it even has a name: the \u201cMyth of the Vanishing Indian.” In fact, Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz and Dina Gilio-Whitaker suggest that it is “the central organizing myth from which most other popular myths about Native people arise.” Since the beginning, however, Indigenous people have resisted rumors of their own demise through art, literature, litigation, political activism, and every other means imaginable.<\/p>\n

This workshop is inspired by five centuries of this Indigenous resistance and resilience. Taking the metaphor of Indigenous visibility and invisibility literally, it will explore ways Indigenous people and Indigenous Studies scholars seek to visualize or re-visualize Indigenous pasts, presents, and futures. By assembling a unique combination of scholars and artists, cartographers and historians, educators and activists, this workshop asks:<\/p>\n