Please join the College of Agriculture and Natural Resources DEI Committee on Tuesday, April 4, 2023,
for a special presentation with guest speaker Karelle Hall. 

Karelle's presentation, "Sovereignty and Race: Intersections of Nanticoke and Lenape Identities," will begin at 5 p.m. in Townsend Hall, room 132.
 

Light refreshments will be served in the Townsend Hall Commons at 4 p.m.

(If you cannot attend in-person, there is an option to attend virtually.
You will receive a Zoom link should you choose that option. This program will be recorded.)

Presentation Summary

"My presentation explores how racial identities and categories particularly impact the Nanticoke and Lenape people of Delaware and New Jersey.  Their ongoing efforts to maintain and assert tribal sovereignties are continuously intersected with the politics of race and ever shifting racial categories." 

Speaker Bio

Karelle Hall is a PhD candidate in anthropology at Rutgers University.  She received her bachelor’s degree from Dartmouth College in Anthropology with a minor in Native American Studies.  Her dissertation research explores embodied and distributed Lenape diasporic sovereignty in public and performative spaces.  She has taught classes in both cultural and linguistic anthropology at Rutgers University and has presented her preliminary research at conferences and colloquiums.  As a member of the Nanticoke Indian Tribe, she has represented her nation at numerous events as both a speaker and dancer.  She is actively working on Nanticoke language revitalization, including a writing children’s book and developing lessons for community classes.  Using her experience and connections in the legal field, she assisted the Nanticoke Tribe with ratifying their recognition in the state of Delaware.  She continues to work as an activist and representative for her community, promoting visibility, decolonization, and education.