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This event discussed how Yale community members could learn how to support the protectors of life, land, and water at the Sacred Stone Camp at the Standing Rock Sioux reservation, where burial sites and the right to clean water are threatened by the…

The Association of Native Americans at Yale (ANAAY) revived the annual Powwow in the fall of 2017. Before 2017, the ANAAY Powwow was dormant for over 10 years. They accomplished this through relationships with local Native drum groups and with…

New Haven activists, residents, and Yale students rallied in response to YPD and Hamden Police shooting of Stephanie Washington and Paul Witherspoon. The video can be accessed via the link in the "Source" section. The following are image descriptions…

This document accompanies the BSDY September Open Letter to Yale Administration. It is a report that provides a framework for implementing the demands made in the letter, and demonstrates that they are realizable. Steps include the following:…

On September 23rd, 2020, BSDY released an open letter to Yale administration demanding a response to the calls for the abolishment of the Yale Police Department. It outlines 4 demands as well as an expected response by September 30th, 2020 and also…

This is the audio file and transcript of an oral history interview conducted with Makana Kushi (Kanaka Maoli, Native Hawaiian) who studied at Yale from 2014-2018 and majored in Ethnicity, Race, and Migration. While at Yale, she served as the…

From November 4-6, 2016, the Association of Native Americans at Yale (ANAAY) hosted 175 Indigenous students for the Ivy Native Summit, a gathering of Native students across colleges in the Northeast. It was the largest gathering in the event’s ten…

On April 1, 2019, the Coalition for Ethnic Studies, a student group that organized to support ER&M faculty and advocate to make the ER&M program a department, hosted a pop-up library in front of Sterling Memorial Library to raise awareness about the…

These stickers, designed by Ananya Kumar-Banerjee ‘20, were distributed to students during the fight for ER&M in spring 2019. Signs with a similar design were placed in public areas like Bass Library to raise awareness about the movement and the work…

The Henry Roe Cloud Conference is hosted every few years by the Association of Native Americans at Yale to celebrate Native excellence and to honor Henry Roe Cloud (Winnebago), himself, as an alumnus who graduated from Yale College in 2010. Henry Roe…