Cube Fest 2024: “Immersive Indigenous Experiences”

If you will be in the Blacksburg area between August 23-25, 2024 check out Cubefest!!! I was part of a team of people that hand curated songs for the mighty sound cube. ]https://artscenter.vt.edu/performances/cube-fest-2024.html

Lecture: Dr. Marisa Duarte on Indigenous Writing for Academia

Academic writing is a genre in of itself, one that can challenge prevailing modes of sharing knowledge in Native and Indigenous families and communities. Often Native and Indigenous thinkers in academia struggle with writing for reasons that pertain to our experiences of colonization and social marginalization. Understanding writing as an experience of thinking-on-paper and of […]

Kozmik Force at Virginia Tech

It is with great pleasure that I am able to invite everyone to join us at Virginia Tech in a session of knowledge, theory, and understanding in the form of Hip Hop. On October 18, 2023 we will be hosting Kozmik Force for a few events. Kozmik Force is a Hip Hop duo composed of […]

Demonyms in Nawat ipal Kuskatan

Here we will talk about how to use and create demonyms (gentilicios) in Nawat from what is now El Salvador. -Chanej The suffix –chanej is added to toponyms as follows: x-chanej, xchanej. X being any given town/city/country. to create a word that essentially means “dweller, resident, or a person from x.” Typically this is only […]

Sharing a Recipe from Kushkatan in A Gathering Basket

I am happy to announce that we were able to share knowledge about Atul Shukuk (Atol Chuco) and Sinti (Maiz) via A Gathering Basket by the I-Collective. I got together with Nantzin Sixta from Witzapan (Santo Domingo de Guzman) and we shared some awesome information about the importance of maiz to Kujkuskatanchanejket (people from Kushkatan). […]

Protect Your Spirit: Native Resistance to Settler Violence [Webinar]

Apr 15, 2021 at 12:00 PM Eastern Time Registration Link Native peoples have lived in the Western Hemisphere since time immemorial. Since then, Indigenous communities throughout the American continent have been custodians of the land, air, and waterways in which they live. Native peoples have rich diversity and achievements in what Western Culture would conceive […]