Center for Indigenous Studies Presents

Between the Heart and Horizon Line: Culturally Responsive Care in Collection Management

Dr. Royce K. Young Wolf is a Hiraacá (Hidatsa), Nu’eta (Mandan), and Sosore (Eastern Shoshone) mother, language and culture activist, curator, artist, and writer. She is a member of the Ih-dhi-shu-gah (Wide Ridge) Clan and is a child of the Ah-puh-gah-whi-gah (Low Cap) Clan, with close relations to her Apsáalooke (Crow) families. Her cultures, languages, and education in the arts, collection management, and language revitalization are integral to her journey beyond the impacts of being a fourth-generation Indian boarding school survivor. At the University of Oklahoma, she received her MA in Native American Studies focused on the Shoshonean Language Reunions and the cultural survivance of her Newe, Numu, and Nʉmʉnʉʉ (Comanche) relations. Her PhD in Sociocultural and Linguistic Anthropology focused on the impacts of colonization on intergenerational knowledge transmission, and cultural and language vitality. She continues to expand upon this research and connections made through her dissertation titled, Pursuing an Understanding of Relationship Making within Language Revitalization: Conversations with Indigenous Language Activists.

Dr. Young Wolf is a recipient of the Cobell Scholarship, the Plains Anthropological Society Native American Student Research Award, the University of Oklahoma Social Sciences Graduate Student Research Award, and is a member of the United Nations Global Indigenous Languages Caucus. She is a founding member alongside her elders who created the MHA Nation Language Department and the MHA Interpretive Center. In 2021, Dr. Young Wolf was selected to be the Andrew W. Mellon Postdoctoral fellow in Native American Art and Curation and a Presidential Visiting fellow at Yale University. She is currently the inaugural Native North American Collection Manager and Assistant Curator of Native American Arts, a duel appointment at the Yale University Art Gallery and Yale Peabody Museum. Dr. Young Wolf continues to prioritize Indigenous language and culture revitalization throughout her curatorial and collection management work which centers on culturally responsive care, decolonization, rematriation, survivance, and relationship (re)making.

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The Bard College Center for Indigenous Studies will host its inaugural symposium on Thursday, April 25, and Friday, April 26, at Bard College in Annandale-on-Hudson, New York. The symposium includes workshops, lectures, and discussions centered around Dr. Beth Piatote’s (Nez Perce enrolled Colville Confederated Tribes) brilliant play Antíkoni, an adaptation of Sophocles’ Antigone. Dr. Beth Piatote’s (Nez Perce enrolled Colville Confederated Tribes) play Antíkoni is from her collection The Beadworkers and was written in part while in residence as a fellow at Bard Graduate Center. Inspired by this work’s themes of possession, belonging, and inheritance, the Center for Indigenous Studies has invited speakers to discuss tribal preservation, NAGPRA (Native American Graves Protection and Repatriation Act), and the universality of the values that run through both Sophocles’ Antigone and Piatote’s adaptation.

For more information, call 845-758-6822, or e-mail [email protected].

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Time: 4:30 pm – 5:30 pm EDT/GMT-4

Location: Bito ’60 Auditorium, Reem-Kayden Center 103

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