As the pandemic is holding us physically apart, the RMS would like to continue to provide, as much as we can, a space for the Dartmouth community and beyond to come together virtually and think about issues of race, migration, and sexuality deeply implicated in our current global situation.

In that spirit, we’d like to announce our next public event:

Screening of Dawnland and Discussion with Producer and Professor Bruce Duthu (Native American Studies)
Tuesday, April 21, 2020
2.30pm to 5.30pm (Eastern US)
Open to the public. Please click here to register for the Zoom webinar.
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Join the RMS Consortium for a live stream of the Emmy Award-winning documentary Dawnland (2018) followed by a discussion with the film’s producer, Bruce Duthu, Samson Occom Professor of Native American Studies at Dartmouth. Click here to view a trailer of the film. The discussion will be moderated by Eng-Beng Lim, Director of the RMS Consortium and Associate Professor of Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies.

Synopsis from Upstander Project: For decades, child welfare authorities have been removing Native American children from their homes to “save them from being Indian.” In Maine, the first official Truth and Reconciliation Commission in the United States begins a historic investigation. Dawnland goes behind-the-scenes as this historic body grapples with difficult truths, redefines reconciliation, and charts a new course for state and tribal relations. Dawnland aired on Independent Lens on PBS in November 2018 reaching more than 2 million viewers. The film won a national Emmy® Award for Outstanding Research in 2019 and made the American Library Association’s list of 2020 Notable Videos for Adults, “a list of 15 outstanding films released on video within the past two years.”