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The "gentlemen's sports" of golf, tennis and yachting all moved smartly out of the summer pleasure domes of the upper class during the past four decades. But polo, the world's toniest contact sport, remained haughtily and expensively cloistered. No more. On weekend afternoons around the country, crowds of...
Lisa Brooks, of Abenaki descent—who currently is a lecturer in History and Literature—received a joint appointment as Assistant Professor in the History and Literature Program and Folklore and Mythology Program.
Brooks said that she hopes to continue teaching courses on Native American literature and history, particularly ones where students can interact with local Native nations in the area.
“We all gathered together here to confront this very hard legacy of violence and exclusion and to envision a future that was inclusive and would be about language exchange,” said Brooks.
Brooks said she considered the conference significant because it honored the first Native students at the Indian College and also began the necessary work of repairing some “fraught relations” between the local Wampanoag people and the University.