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...late 1980s, Daver was one of the first Indian women to enter technology marketing. Neither black nor white, she grew accustomed to being stared at and judged differently, despite wearing Western clothes and speaking flawless English. Today, the mother of two is still in a rarefied position as just one of a handful of Indian female executives nationwide...
...said that the president was clearly frustrated with the dean’s practice of skimming over difficult issues rather than thoroughly addressing them. Kirby and Summers have “very different personalities,” Leonard W. J. van der Kuijp, the chair of the Sanskrit and Indian Studies Department, said yesterday. “I always felt Dean Kirby was very conciliatory and very willing to listen to different sides, and I’m not sure if the president is cut from the same cloth.”Several sources expressed concern that the news...
...arranging a bed to return to later in the night, you create a “pressure situation” in which you have to either make power moves or find yourself sleeping naked while sitting “Indian-style” behind a vending machine. You can either be clutch like MJ or throw up a brick, but either way you will rest easy knowing you played...
Over $80,000 was awarded last week to 14 Native American tribal initiatives by the Harvard-affiliated Honoring Nations awards program. The program—administered by the Harvard Project on American Indian Economic Development—rewards tribal organizations for strengthening the schools, courts, and infrastructure of sovereign Indian tribes. The winning programs——seven of which received “High Honors” and a $10,000 grant——were selected from applicants representing 41 tribes and seven inter-tribal organizations, according to Honoring Nations Executive Director...
Erica A. Scott ’06 won a first place award for her research on new approaches to understanding alcoholism in Native American communities at a national American Indian Science and Engineering Society (AISES) conference last weekend. Scott, who was supported by the newly formed Harvard Chapter of AISES, said she was very pleased to win the award and plans to use her findings to formulate a senior thesis topic. “I was initially just so surprised and excited,” said Scott, who spent the summer doing research among Native Americans in Oklahoma by means...