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AboutWhen: November 11, 2024Time: 7:00-8:30pmLocation: Lunda Room in the Alumni Memorial Union Marquette University, 1450 W. Wisconsin AvenuePlease join Dr. Sharity Bassett, Assistant Professor of Women’s and Gender Studies and Associate Director of the Electa Quinney Institute for American Indian Education (EQI) at University of Wisconsin–Milwaukee (UWM)as she discusses her new book, Haudenosaunee Women Lacrosse Players: Making Meaning through Rematriation.  Book Summary:Purchase the Book“Since the 1970s lacrosse has become one of the fastest-growing sports in North America, and Haudenosaunee communities have worked at the international level to claim lacrosse as an important part of Haudenosaunee culture and tradition. Lacrosse is also known as the medicine game as it is part of a medicine ceremony named in creation narratives and the Great Law of Peace that binds the six nations of the Haudenosaunee Confederacy Six Nations. The number of Haudenosaunee women and girls playing the sport has burgeoned since the 1980s. This book roots lacrosse as a Haudenosaunee sport both within and outside of these communities...” Dr. Sharity Bassett:Sharity L. Bassett is Assistant Professor of Women’s and Gender Studies and Associate Director of the Electa Quinney Institute for American Indian Education (EQI) at University of Wisconsin–Milwaukee (UWM), Wisconsin, US. Bassett earned her PhD in global gender studies at the State University of New York at Buffalo, and has been involved in collaborative research with Haudenosaunee communities in New York State, Ontario, and Montreal since 2011. For EQI, she started and directs the Indigenous Kinship & Responsibility Scholarship, which focuses on undergraduate research opportunities across multiple academic disciplines. Bassett is working with tribal nations to create interactive databases and curriculum using historical records and oral history. She is also crafting her experiences in various archival spaces into an autoethnographic work that analyzes the barriers to archival knowledges. Bassett teaches courses for UWM’s Women’s and Gender Studies and American Indian Studies programs, including Indigenous feminisms, Indigequeer theory and praxis, critical disability studies, and feminist research methods.

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