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Expanded staff, new space helps connect Labriola Center with Native American community
Alexander Soto’s excitement and joy was evident as he showed a visitor the new Labriola National American Indian Data Center space inside Hayden Library on Arizona State University’s Tempe campus. There, said Soto, the center’s director, is the huge wall mural that represents O’odham land recently ...
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Labriola Blog: March 2024 Highlights
Highlights from the Labriola Center At the end of this past February, the Labriola Center hosted our biannual Indigenous Open Mic Poetry Night. We also had the opportunity and pleasure of meeting a Maori dance company called "Ōkāreka Dance Company" who visited all the way from New Zealand! In addit...
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Annual Labriola Book Award with Dr. Valerie Lambert
Annual Labriola Book Award with Dr. Valerie Lambert This November, the Labriola Center hosted Dr. Valerie Lambert to speak about her book that won this year's Annual Labriola Book Award. Photo of Dr. Valerie Lambert presenting her book, Native Agency...
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Labriola Blog: November 2023 Highlights
Highlights from the Labriola Center This past November, the Labriola Center hosted and partnered on various events that touched on the duality and diversity of Indigenous peoples for Native American Heritage Month. We also hosted the winner of the Labriola Center's Annual Book Award, Dr. Valerie L...
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Author Valerie Lambert to deliver Labriola Center National Book Award lecture
The Labriola National American Indian Data Center at the ASU Library has announced that “Native Agency: Indians in the Bureau of Indian Affairs” by Valerie Lambert is the recipient of the center’s National Book Award. The annual award recognizes scholarship in American Indian and Indigenous studies....
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Labriola Blog: October 2023 Highlights
Highlights from the Labriola Center October's events at the Labriola National American Indian Data Center oscillated around themes of Indigenous identity in academia, which includes the Office of Indian Education's Symposium, Vina Begay's Archive Wednesday, a book talk with Ramona Emerson, and the ...
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Labriola Blog: September 2023 Highlights
Highlights from the Labriola Center September's events at the Labriola National American Indian Data Center set the foundation for this fall 2023. We began with an Indigenous Comic Book Workshop with Kayla Shaggy, a Dine' zine creator and artist within the Phoenix Valley. Then we ended our month wi...
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Labriola Blog: August 2023 Highlights
Highlights from the Labriola Center This past August, the Labriola Center hosted Indigenous ASU students from SPIRIT in partnership with American Indian Student Support Services. The Center also collaborated with Alliance of Indigenous Peoples to host a Welcome for new and returning students at bot...
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Labriola Blog: July 2023 Highlights
Highlights from the Labriola Center This past July, the Labriola Center held a virtual book club and designed a book display in Fletcher Library honoring Arizona Tribes by sharing their tribal seals, a brief description of their community and QR code linked to their tribal website. You can view the...