The lands and waters of the Finger Lakes region have been inscribed with colonial names that, over time, have come to seem like the only possible designations for these places. But what alternative rural and urban configurations have these lands undergone, what other names have shaped these spaces, and how can we experience the landscape…
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The Gayogohó:nǫˀ Indigenous people (named -mispronounced- Cayuga by the English and American settlers) have a longstanding relationship of more than 13.000 years with the Cayuga Lake region, where the main campus of Cornell University is situated (Cornell University, 2021). This history includes a critical and painful event in 1779 when soldiers from the American armed…
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Hydropower has long been heralded as “clean,” “green” energy. Yet living in Akwesasne, just a few kilometers away from the Moses-Saunders Power Dam, it seems that almost every one of its approximately 13,000 residents is either sick or has a family member that is sick. And every indication suggests a link to the power dam. How…
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RCS group to co-host Indigenous Computing event April 28th, 1:30 – 4:30 pm, Gates Hall + Zoom! This series of talks explores the intersections of Indigenous world-views and computational technologies. We reflect on ways in which AI systems, quantitative analysis and computing philosophies have and can become culturally supportive instruments embedded in practices of Native…
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