Culture & Identity • Fellowships • Virginia Indians
Greg Smithers - Photo by Pierre Courtois, Library of Virginia The Riverkeepers
The Cherokees, Their Neighbors, and the Rivers that Made America
Join Virginia Humanities Research Fellow Greg Smithers, a professor of history at Virginia Commonwealth University, for a talk on his research for a project entitled “The Riverkeepers: The Cherokees, Their Neighbors, and the Rivers that Made America.” The book is a biography of aquatic places that Cherokee people and their indigenous neighbors believed were filled […]
African American Heritage • Culture & Identity • Grants
Gallery 5 – Conversation Series
A series of facilitated public conversations, presented monthly, exploring a range of social issues that are central to Richmond’s past and present. Richmond & the Suburbs – 1/30 Richmond & Black Freedom – 2/20 Urban Agriculture – 3/13 Richmond & Public Art – 4/17 Richmond & Sustainability – 5/15 Richmond & Transportation – 6/19 This […]
Culture & Identity • Virginia Indians
Karenne Wood speaking at the NASA Langley Research Center. Photo courtesy David C. Bowman. Karenne Wood at VCU
Stone, Bone, and Clay: Virginia Indians' History of 18,000 Years
Dr. Karenne Wood, a member of the Monacan Indian Nation and director of Virginia Humanities’ Virginia Indian Programs examines the deep history of the American Indian presence in Virginia and considers how our understanding of that history has been influenced by museums, historians and popular media and changed by archaeological discoveries. This talk is presented […]
Culture & Identity • Fellowships • History
CC0 Creative Commons Foundations of the Appalachian Trail as Sacred Landscape
Colonial Demons and Holy Mountains
During the 1960s, academic critique of Christianity presented the Puritans and other American colonists as antagonistic to wilderness. Recent scholarship has, in contrast, described the Appalachian Trail corridor as a pilgrimage route. Virginia Humanities Fellow Susan Bratton, a religious and environmental studies professor at Baylor University, argues that multiple religions have portrayed the Appalachian peaks […]
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Woodland Union Church Cemetery. Photo courtesy Alison Bell Front Porches of the Dead
VFH Residential Fellow Alison Bell teaches anthropology at Washington & Lee University in Lexington, Virginia. Bell has been studying cemeteries in Virginia’s Shenandoah Valley and says that in the 1980s a shift started happening in these spaces where the living and the dead come together.
Bell recently sat down with Trey Mitchell, director of web communications at VFH, to discuss her work.
Culture & Identity • Virginia Indians
Karenne Wood gives a blessing in the Monacan language in front of the Rotunda during the UVA bicentennial celebration. Photo by Pat Jarrett. Indigenous Peoples Day at Kluge-Ruhe Museum
Celebrate Indigenous Peoples Day with Virginia Humanities and the Kluge-Rhue Aboriginal Art Museum! Dr. Karenne Wood, director of Virginia Humanities’ Virginia Indian Programs, will give a presentation titled Stone, Bone, and Clay: Virginia Indians’ History of 18,000 Years followed by a performance by Monacan tribal dancers. Refreshments will be served. Dr. Karenne Wood, a member of the […]
