Native American Heritage Celebration

Aztec dance worksop sharing the permit for dance and the beauty of Mother Earth/TONANTZIN traditional Aztec dance and songs from prehispanic time.

Pumawari Tusys Boston is a non-profit organization 501(c)(3) that promotes the customs and traditions from Peru through traditional dances.

It is composed from Peruvian-American kids and their parents from different towns around Boston. We will be performing 2 dances:
Valicha and Festejo where we will interact with the audience. 

The Dancing Chickens of Ventura Fabian is a multicultural bilingual arts education program designed to share and celebrate the art and craft of Oaxacan woodcarving through direct contact with the artists.

We represent the island of Boriken pre colonization and educate through dance our Taino Cultural and how it continues today.

Redhawk Native American Dancers will be sharing Indigenous history, dance, music and cultural traditions of Indigenous People of North America.

Dr. Rodrigo Córdova Rosado is the AGEL Postdoctoral Fellow at the Center for Astrophysics | Harvard & Smithsonian. He works on developing probes of cosmological expansion with strong lensing, and connecting supermassive black hole properties with their dark matter halo environment. He is an expert in leveraging spatial clustering statistics to understand galaxy and black hole accretion characteristics, completing his Ph.D. at Princeton University in 2025. He was born and raised on his home island of Puerto Rico, and is a citizen of the Osage Nation. He completed an MPhil in Archaeology of the Americas as a Gates Cambridge Scholar at the University of Cambridge, and studies astronomical alignments in ancestral monumental architecture. He co-leads the Responsible Telescope Siting working group for the next-generation Event Horizon Telescope, and writes on how to foster more transparent dialogue between researchers and stakeholder communities. He enjoys rock climbing, public observing, photography, and camping.

This presentation will feature Juan Gonzalez discussing the Mayan contributions to STEM, specifically highlighting their advanced knowledge in astronomy, complex mathematics, and medicine.

Chef Nephi Craig has 27 years culinary experience in America and abroad in Canada, Mexico, London, Germany, Brazil, Japan, Italy, and France.  Nephi Craig is White Mountain Apache and half Navajo. Chef Nephi Craig provides training, workshops and lecture sessions on Indigenous Foods for Health to schools, restaurants, universities, behavioral health agencies, and tribal entities in America and abroad. Chef Nephi Craig is a 2023 James Beard Foundation Nominee for ‘Best Chef Southwest.

Presentation: Indigenous Foodways as Community Intervention & Behavioral Science

In this presentation, discover how Indigenous food traditions serve as powerful tools for both individual and community well-being. Chef Nephi Craig explores the intersections of Indigenous Foodways with behavioral science, nutrition, health, and self-care, highlighting how traditional foods can support healing, resilience, and cultural resurgence.

Alvin D. Harvey is a postdoctoral fellow in aeronautics and astronautics and citizen of the Navajo (Diné) Nation whose research is focused on Indigenous Research Methodologies and Methods (IRM&M) in aerospace engineering. Alvin’s graduate research encompassed studies of partial gravity human performance and mechanisms of simulating partial gravity environments, and a doctoral thesis shaped by several goals: co-creating and applying Diné and Indigenous pillars of knowledge in aeronautics and astronautics; developing Indigenous space ethics, astrophilosophy, astrobiology, and shared engineering methodology; and capacity building and pathfinding in systems and complex theory, curriculum design, and bioastronautics. As a postdoctoral fellow Alvin’s work includes centering Indigenous systems theory and knowledge in sustainable human and satellite space systems engineering, developing the first Indigenous Space Conference, and training a research team for a space analog mission grounded in Indigenous Methodologies.

Jesse is an Assistant Professor of Chemistry and Chemical Biology, with an affiliation in Chemical Engineering at Northeastern University. He is a citizen of the Turtle Mountain Band of Chippewa and White Bear First Nations.

Kiva Centers is a nationally recognized, indigenous-led, peer-run organization offering training, technical assistance, and networking opportunities. They connect people to resources like peer specialist training, peer-run respites, recovery communities, and support for trauma, mental health, and substance use.

The National Center for Race Amity fosters friendship, dialogue, and collaboration across racial and cultural lines, advancing equity, social justice, and unity through education and shared action that transcends division and celebrates our common humanity.

We study developmental science, specifically memory and executive functioning in children ages 18 months - 13 years old at UMass Boston. We will have fun and engaging activities to share with the families.

We study the representations and computations supporting object, numerical, and future-oriented cognition across development, with the goal of illuminating the basic building blocks of human cognition.

Cultural Survival is an Indigenous-led non-profit that advocates for Indigenous Peoples' rights and supports Indigenous communities’ self-determination, cultures, and political resilience. For over 53 years, Cultural Survival has partnered with Indigenous communities to advance Indigenous Peoples' rights and cultures worldwide. We envision a future that respects and honors Indigenous Peoples' inherent rights and dynamic cultures, deeply and richly interwoven in lands, languages, spiritual traditions, and artistic expression, rooted in self-determination and self-governance.

DFCI Community Outreach team providing cancer prevention information and resources to populations that see the most cancer disparities.

NAICOB was originally established in 1969 as the Boston Indian Council when it served as the hub of social and civil rights activities for the American Indian/Alaska Native and First Nations urban Indian community in Boston. The Boston Indian Council was first headquartered in Dorchester and moved to Jamaica Plain in 1974. The center was reorganized as the North American Indian Center of Boston in 1991. Since then, we have provided a wide range of cultural, social, educational, and professional services to Native peoples in the Commonwealth. As the oldest urban Indian center in Massachusetts, our mission is to empower the Native American community with the goal of improving the quality of life of Indigenous peoples.

The Chappaquiddick Wampanoag Tribe is a historical Massachusetts tribe. Its ancestral homelands are Chappaquiddick Island, Cape Poge, and Muskeget. The Chappaquiddick Wampanoag were a tribe at the time of first contact, when the United States became a country in 1776, and when Massachusetts became part of the Federal Union in 1789.

The Earl Center explores different challenges at the intersection of STEM education, community partnership, racial justice and the arts/humanities.

We are an Indigenous led and run intertribal cultural center in Massachusetts. We provide interdisciplinary education through cultural and educational workshops and lectures. We work together with Tribes, community partners and allies in ways that benefit our collective community.

MIT AISES is just one chapter of a national organization dedicated to the advancement of Native Americans in STEM! At MIT, we support social, cultural, and professional development programming for Native students.

The Pain and Affective Neuroscience Center (PAN) is a collaboration between multiple research labs at Boston Children's Hospital. We investigate pain and the causes of it in the human nervous system.