Cultural Centers as Home-Places: Indigenous Student Affairs Standpoints

Dinner on Us (DOU) is administered by the Native American House (NAH) and is part of the Lunch on Us Series within Student Success, Inclusion & Belonging. DOU is a one-hour program that features scholar- and practitioner-led workshops paired with a shared meal.

Held twice monthly from September through November and February through April, DOU explores a wide range of Native and Indigenous-focused topics while offering participants meaningful opportunities to connect with peers and experts in a relaxed, conversational setting.

This DOU workshop features: Native American House Staff Description: In many Indigenous worldviews, home is not defined by a single structure or fixed location. Rather, home-places emerge from a constellation of relationships (land-based, kin-based, ancestral, and cosmological) that both ground one’s identity and shape one’s responsibilities.

Within this framework, the Native American House (NAH) becomes more than a physical space: it is animated through the cultural understandings and daily practices of its professional and student staff, who collectively expand what it means for NAH to serve as a “home away from home.” About the Speakers: To learn more about Dr. Charlotte Davidson (Diné/Mandan, Hidatsa and Arikara Nation), Native American House (NAH) Director and Morgan Bear (Sac & Fox Tribe of the Mississippi Tribe in Iowa), NAH Assistant Director, click here: https://nah.illinois.edu/about/meet-staff For more information about NAH Ambassadors, Justin Bean (Choctaw Nation of Oklahoma), Mia Davlantis (Menominee), and Ingrid Gonzalez (Yaqui), click on the following link: https://nah.illinois.edu/programs/nah-ambassador-program This program is open to all eligible persons regardless of race, color, or national origin.

Reasonable accommodations are available upon request. Please contact the Native American House at nah@illinois.edu.