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Date October 11, 2016
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Photos: Indigenous People’s Day at Brown

In an event organized by Native Americans at Brown, members of the University community and beyond joined on Monday afternoon to celebrate the inaugural Indigenous People’s Day at Brown.

#Proud to be native sign.
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Proud to be Native - Members of Native Americans at Brown hung signs used in a reenactment of last year’s demonstration, which called upon Brown to formally recognize Indigenous People’s Day. All photos: Nick Dentamaro/Brown University

Students holding signs.
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Students took to the steps of the Stephen Robert Campus Center and marched through the College Green in a reenactment of the fall 2015 demonstration that called upon the University to formally recognize Indigenous People’s Day.

Students holding flag.
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Niyo Moraza-Keeswood, a Class of 2016 graduate from Brown who is now coordinator of Native American and Indigenous Studies in the Brown Center for Students of Color, during a performance by Eastern Suns drummers.

students listening.
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Second-year Brown undergraduate Ruth Miller, a co-coordinator of Native Americans at Brown, listens during a panel discussion on the University’s Native American and Indigenous Studies initiative.

Students dancing.
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Students, faculty and staff from Brown joined local community members during the last-round dance of Monday’s Indigenous People’s Day celebration hosted on the College Green by Native Americans at Brown.

Two people with a potato between them.
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Elizabeth Hoover, Manning Assistant Professor of American Studies, and Neftali Duran balance a potato between their heads — participants try not to drop the potato during the dance.

Students dancing.
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Brown undergraduates Phoebe Young and Floripa Olguin call out to participants during a potato dance on the College Green.

Audience
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Tia Blais-Billie, a junior at Rhode Island School of Design, watches a documentary titled “How We Remember” by Brown undergraduate Sierra Edd.

People holding hands in a circle.
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Among the many highlights of the inaugural Indigenous People’s Day at Brown were dances that offered participants the chance to join in celebration.

Students sitting around a drum.
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Attaquin Weeden, Scott Reels Jr. and David Weeden of Eastern Suns drummed during the celebration.

PROVIDENCE, R.I. [Brown University] — Monday, Oct. 10, 2016, marked the first Indigenous People’s Day at Brown University, and students, faculty, staff and community members joined to commemorate the occasion on the University’s College Green in a celebration organized by Native Americans at Brown, a student group.

The gathering came one year after Native Americans at Brown demonstrated on the College Green and called from the University to formally recognize Indigenous People’s Day — and eight months after the Brown faculty voted to designate the second Monday in October as Indigenous People’s Day.

Photographer Nick Dentamaro captured highlights.