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<p>The Ash Center’s Project on Indigenous Governance and Development invites you to an in-person conversation with <strong>Chris Newell</strong>, author of “If You Lived During the Plimoth Thanksgiving” (Scholastic 2021) and Instructor-in-Residence and Native American Cultural Director at the University of Connecticut. Written with young readers in mind, the book offers an illustrated nonfiction retelling of the 17th-century encounters between Wampanoag peoples and English colonists, as well as the creation of the modern Thanksgiving holiday. This event will be moderated by <strong>Randall Kekoa Akee</strong>, Julie Johnson Kidd Professor of Indigenous Governance and Development at Harvard Kennedy School, with additional discussants to be confirmed.</p><p><em>Open to all HUID holders. Lunch will be provided.</em></p><p> </p><p><strong>More about the Speaker</strong></p><p>Chris Newell (Passamaquoddy Tribe at Indian Township) is the author of “If You Lived During the Plimoth Thanksgiving” and the Instructor-in-Residence and Native American Cultural Program founding director at the University of Connecticut. A multi-award-winning museum professional, he was born and raised in Motahkmikuhk (Indian Township, ME). Newell is also the co-founder and Director of Education for Akomawt Educational Initiative, a majority Native-owned educational consultancy based in Connecticut. </p><p> </p><p> </p>
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