Celebrate Indigenous Peoples' Day at Ohio State Newark!

October 14, 2019

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7 - 8 PM

Join us as we celebrate Indigenous People’s Day with Pokagon Potawatomi basket maker Jennie Brown and family!

John L. and Christine Warner 

Library and Student Center

Performance Platform (Room 126)

Free and open to the public. 

The Brown family includes several generations of black ash basket makers. Jennie, mother of Jamie, won the Daniel “Gomez” Mena Master Apprenticeship for her work as a mentor to her son and apprentice Josiah. Jamie’s large strawberry basket was featured on the cover of an issue of the National Museum of the American Indian magazine; and the Smithsonian Institute purchased and will soon display that piece. They will discuss the meaning and power of basket making

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This presentation is in conjunction with the exhibit currently being featured in the LeFevre Hall Art Gallery entitled “Art & Artifact: Material Culture & Meaning Making - Bodéwadmi Wisgat Gokpenagen, The Black Ash Baskets of the Pokagon Band of Potawatomi Indians.” 

Sponsored by grants from the Global Arts & Humanities/ Indigenous Arts & Humanities Initiative, the Program in American Indian Studies, the Milliken Fund at The Ohio State University at Newark, and the Newark Earthworks Center.

For more information,

Visit:

• Pokagon Band of Potawatomi
• Art
• Wiwkwébthëgen | Preserving material of historical and cultural value for Pokégenek Bodéwadmik
• "an open digital platform that seeks to share information and teachings about our Potawatomi culture. The Pokagon Band of Potawatomi Indians are a federally-recognized tribal nation with homelands in the states of Michigan and Indiana. We are a part of the greater Potawatomi Nation, whose Bands are spread throughout the United States, Canada, and Mexico. We are the Keeper's of the Fire: Bodwéwadmi. "
• Note: Most content is not accessible to the public. Pokagon citizens may request an account to view all content on the site.
• LeFevre Art Gallery
• Exhibit Opening: The Black Ash Baskets of the Potawatomi
• August 28, 2019.
• Pokagon Potawatomi Basket Making--Recollecting Nationhood (2016)
• Dr. John Low, Alexander Street | ProQuest.
• "Women's Leadership through the Women's Basket Cooperative in Pokagon Band of Potawatomi, 1983-2000", edited by John N. Low
• Alexander Street | ProQuest
• Northeast Indigenous Climate Resilience Network
• Emerald Ash Borer Impacts on American Indian Communities (PDF).
• Gallery Opening of Bodéwadmi Wisgat Gokpenagen, The Black Ash Baskets of the Pokagon Band of Potawatomi Indians Post