In collaboration with the Harvard University Native American Program, ArtLab presents Frank Waln, an award-winning Sicangu Lakota Hip Hop artist and music producer from the Rosebud Reservation in South Dakota.
March 30, 2022
7:00 pm
Performance by Frank Waln
with Professor Philip J. Deloria
March 31, 2022
12:00 pm
Writer’s Workshop with Frank Waln
Harvard Affiliates only
Frank Waln is an award-winning Lakota music artist, speaker, curator, and writer from the Rosebud Reservation in South Dakota. He received a Bachelor of Arts in Audio Arts & Acoustics from Columbia College Chicago, where he was given the Mayor’s Award for Civic Engagement upon graduating. Frank Waln was recently featured on the cover of the book “Notable Native People: 50 Indigenous Leaders, Dreamers and Changemakers From Past and Present” by Cherokee Author Dr. Adrienne Keene. Frank Waln is currently working with the Field Museum in Chicago to co-curate an interactive music space in the new Native American Exhibition Hall which will tell how Lakota culture and Frank’s home community influence his work. The Kennedy Center Arts Across America presented Frank Waln’s Songs and Stories from Lakota Country in 2020.
Philip J. Deloria is the Leverett Saltonstall Professor of History at Harvard University. His research and teaching focus on the social, cultural, and political histories of the relations among American Indian people and the United States, as well as the comparative and connective histories of indigenous peoples in a global context. Deloria is a trustee of the Smithsonian Institution’s National Museum of the American Indian, where he chairs the Repatriation Committee.
Harvard University Native American Program (HUNAP) is an interfaculty initiative at Harvard. HUNAP seeks to create and nurture a thriving community for Native American and Indigenous people—and their allies and supporters—on campus by expanding the presence, visibility, and impact of persons of Native American and Indigenous affiliation or descent on campus in a wide variety of roles.
Harvard University is located on the traditional and ancestral land of the Massachusett, the original inhabitants of what is now known as Boston and Cambridge. We pay respect to the people of the Massachusett Tribe, past and present, and honor the land itself which remains sacred to the Massachusett People.