Native American Voices at Penn Museum |
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March 3, 2015, Volume 61, No. 25 |
This Thursday, March 5 at 4 p.m.,
the Penn Museum will present Native American Voices: Reconciliation and Its Discontents.
Reconciliation has achieved a seemingly unquestioned status in Canada as the good thing that is to usher in the better thing that will be. But this discourse seeks to harmonize and balance a fundamental disjuncture—between a sovereign state unwilling to rescind its false claims to Indigenous land and life and Indigenous struggles for sovereignty. Audra Simpson, associate professor of anthropology at Columbia University, examines the ways in which reconciliation seeks to repair or perhaps subvert and mask the problem of historical and ethical impasse and injury. Native American Voices public programming is generously underwritten by Delaware Investments/Macquarie Group Foundation and cosponsored by the Penn Cultural Heritage Center, the departments of anthropology and history and the Greenfield Intercultural Center (Natives at Penn). This event is free with Museum admission.
Modern Native Voices: The Medium of Hip Hop—New Music with a Distinctly Native Beat is explored and performed
at the Penn Museum on Saturday, March 21, beginning at 3 p.m. What happens when Native American voices speak out—through the musical medium of rap and hip hop? The Museum hosts Frank Waln, Def-i, Tall Paul and Wake Self (above), four nationally-known Native American rap and hip hop artists, for an afternoon of in-the-galleries spoken word, a follow up panel discussion and an evening concert. The afternoon-into-night program, Modern Native Voices: The Medium of Hip Hop, is presented in conjunction with the Museum’s five-year exhibition, Native American Voices: The People—Here and Now. The program is sponsored by Natives at Penn, Native American and Indigenous Studies, the Greenfield Intercultural Center and Du Bois College House.
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