ISAPD meets Winona LaDuke at Manhattan’s first Powwow since the 1700s

ISAPD members, Anjelica Gallegos and Summer Sutton, along with Yale architecture classmate, I-Ting Tsai, attended the 1st Lenape Powwow in NYC, held at the Park Avenue Armory on November 18th.

The event included a talk by Winona LaDuke, Native American land rights activist and author, as well as performances by acclaimed Inuit throat singer, Tanya Tagaq.

ISAPD visits Cornell University and stays at Akwe:kon

ISAPD visited Cornell University to see the work-in-progress screening of Waaki – Sanctuary, by film maker, Victor Masayesva (Hopi). The faculty of Cornell’s American Indian and Indigenous Studies Program (AIISP) were kind enough to offer a place for ISAPD to stay in Akwe:kon, the first university residence hall designed and developed to celebrate American Indian culture and heritage.

ISAPD had the chance to explore I.M. Pei’s Johnson Art Museum on Cornell’s campus as well as Milstein Hall, designed by Remington Koolhaas in 2011.