October 14, 2024 Academic Calendar
Join the Peabody for an evening celebrating Indigenous Peoples' Day with guest speaker, David Lowry. Event is free and open to the public.
‘The End Depends on (Stolen Indian Land)’: the responsibilities of Phillips Academy on Indigenous Peoples Day
The intersection near Roxbury Latin, one of the oldest prep schools in the United States and historically a major site for Indian re-education and anti-Indigenous genocide. The yellow “thickly settled” street sign speaks to the conditions within which American Indian people attempt to reverse conditions of genocide.
About David Lowry, Guest Speaker
David Shane Lowry is Assistant Professor of Anthropology at University of Southern Maine. He grew up in (and is an enrolled member of) the Lumbee Tribe of North Carolina. With degrees from MIT and University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill, David’s first book, Lumbee Pipelines: American Indian movement in the residue of settler colonialism, will be available in August of 2025 with University of Nebraska Press. He is beginning a second book with MIT Press titled Indigenous MIT: why we must save science and technology from American genocide. David's scholarship has been funded by the National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellowship (NSF GRF) and NSF RAPID.
Additional links and resources related to David Lowry and his work
Returning the Land, Podcast by David Lowry
"Street Signs of Change" Editorial by the Crimson Editorial Board, The Harvard Crimson
"Anthropology Has One Job (On Genocide in the United States)" article by David Lowry
Peabody Institute of ArchaeologyIndigenous Peoples' Day with David Lowry at the Peabody
7:00 p.m. - 8:00 p.m., Peabody Institute of ArchaeologyJoin the Peabody for an evening celebrating Indigenous Peoples' Day with guest speaker, David Lowry. Event is free and open to the public.
‘The End Depends on (Stolen Indian Land)’: the responsibilities of Phillips Academy on Indigenous Peoples Day
The intersection near Roxbury Latin, one of the oldest prep schools in the United States and historically a major site for Indian re-education and anti-Indigenous genocide. The yellow “thickly settled” street sign speaks to the conditions within which American Indian people attempt to reverse conditions of genocide.
About David Lowry, Guest Speaker
David Shane Lowry is Assistant Professor of Anthropology at University of Southern Maine. He grew up in (and is an enrolled member of) the Lumbee Tribe of North Carolina. With degrees from MIT and University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill, David’s first book, Lumbee Pipelines: American Indian movement in the residue of settler colonialism, will be available in August of 2025 with University of Nebraska Press. He is beginning a second book with MIT Press titled Indigenous MIT: why we must save science and technology from American genocide. David's scholarship has been funded by the National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellowship (NSF GRF) and NSF RAPID.
Additional links and resources related to David Lowry and his work
Returning the Land, Podcast by David Lowry
"Street Signs of Change" Editorial by the Crimson Editorial Board, The Harvard Crimson
"Anthropology Has One Job (On Genocide in the United States)" article by David Lowry