Ivy Native Council

Founded in 1995, the Ivy Native Council is a student organization comprised of indigenous representatives from all the Ivy League schools. The Ivy Native Council meets at rotating Ivy League Schools for a semi-annual summit. Featuring Indigenous activists, scholars,  authors, artists, poets, musicians, the summits provide community-building and learning for Indigenous students.  

In Spring 2024, Dartmouth hosted the Ivy Native Conference from April 19th – 21st. Over 170 Indigenous undergraduate students attended from Ivy+ schools. 

Conference presenters include award-winning Indigenous writer, environmental historian, and ethnobotanist Rosalyn LaPier; Cherokee scholar Thomas Belt; Maskoke language revitalizer, scholar, and musician Marcus Briggs Cloud; Ojibwe educator Brooke Niiyogaabawiikwe Gonzalez '97; and Ashlyn Lovato, a 2023 alumna of Brown University, where she is now earning a master's degree in linguistic anthropology with a focus on unwritten Indigenous languages and cultural knowledge systems. 

Attendees visited the Hood Museum of Art, home to more than 4,000 works by Native American artists. Following dinner and bingo at the Hanover Inn, a performance in Collis Common Ground featured hip-hop artist Xiuhtezcatl Martinez, a well-known environmental activist who delivered a 2015 speech at the United Nations General Assembly in English, Spanish, and his native language, Nahuatl. 

The student planning committee was led by Perciliana Moquino '26 in coordination with the Native American Program. In addition to the Native American Program, sponsorship was generously provided by the President's Office and the Office of the Dean of the College, Departments of Anthropology, Environmental Studies, Women's, Gender, and Sexuality Studies, History, Linguistics, Native American and Indigenous Studies, Ethics Institute, Thayer School of Engineering, and the Rockefeller Center, 

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