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...morning, an earthquake measuring 7.6 on the Richter scale struck just west of Kashmir's Line of Control, along which hundreds of thousands of Indian and Pakistani troops face off in bunkers and artillery installations and over which they have fought two wars and countless skirmishes and nearly came to a nuclear confrontation in 2002. The result: At least 18,000 dead, the majority of them on the Pakistani side of the disputed territory...
...hear a thing from University Hall until it was a couple of weeks ago, when we were told, ‘Hey, guess what, we’ve got a surprise,’” said Leonard van der Kuijp, the chair of the Sanskrit and Indian studies department. “There’s not a lot of transparency...
Professor Fash said he is hopeful that impending excavations in Harvard Yard will fill in some archival holes. He said he expects to unearth pot shards, pipe stems, broken nails, and glass from the 17th century, but also hopes to find remains of the original structure of the Harvard Indian College, including parts of its walkways, foundation, and refuse system. “Archaeologists love to find garbage,” Fash said yesterday. And whatever he and his team of student archaeologists find—be it garbage or veritable treasure—it will appear online...
This commitment to bringing new life to Native American studies is something that the Harvard community has taken to heart. While Monday’s events commemorated the Indian College, the University is also actively seeking to widen its focus on Native Americans and their history through cultural and academic initiatives, including formal presentations last spring at Commencement...
Since the 1970s, more than 800 Native Americans, natives of Hawaii, and natives of Alaska, have attended Harvard College, according to Lopez. In 1970, Harvard formed the American Indian Program at the Graduate School of Education, and more recently, the Project on American Indian Economic Development at the Kennedy School of Government (KSG). Both of these programs are part of the Harvard University Native American Program, one of the University’s nine interfaculty initiatives...