{"id":69,"date":"2025-10-21T11:44:19","date_gmt":"2025-10-21T16:44:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/uwm.edu\/electa-quinney\/?page_id=69"},"modified":"2026-01-29T10:42:05","modified_gmt":"2026-01-29T16:42:05","slug":"news-events","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/uwm.edu\/electa-quinney\/about\/news-events\/","title":{"rendered":"News &amp; Events"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"uwm-l-row\">\n<div class=\"uwm-l-col\"><ul class=\"uwm-p-posts uwm-c-list--cleanlist uwm-c-list--border has-dates\"><li><figure class=\"post-image\"><a href=\"https:\/\/uwm.edu\/electa-quinney\/celebrating-gratitude-through-indigenous-lenses-the-alternative-giving\/\" aria-hidden=\"true\" tabindex=\"-1\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" src=\"https:\/\/uwm.edu\/electa-quinney\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/778\/2025\/12\/2025_09_10-the-soup-150x150.jpg\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail wp-post-image\" alt=\"image of two large pots with liquid soup over a fire that is surrounded by cut stones\" \/><\/a><\/figure><div class=\"post-content\"><a class=\"post-title\" href=\"https:\/\/uwm.edu\/electa-quinney\/celebrating-gratitude-through-indigenous-lenses-the-alternative-giving\/\">Celebrating Gratitude Through Indigenous Lenses: The AlterNative Giving<\/a><time datetime=\"2025-12-17T09:21:00-06:00\" class=\"post-date\">December 17, 2025<\/time><div class=\"post-excerpt\">It was a success! On November 19, 2025, the Electa Quinney Institute held their annual&nbsp;AlterNative&nbsp;Giving Meal. The purpose of the event is to come together as a community and reflect on gratitude through Indigenous lenses while enjoying native foods.&nbsp; Inspired by the first public school teacher and Wisconsin\u2019s Stockbridge-Munsee Band of Mohicans member, Electa Quinney, &hellip; <\/div><\/div><\/li>\n<li><figure class=\"post-image\"><a href=\"https:\/\/uwm.edu\/electa-quinney\/a-new-chapter-eqi-library-opens-in-holton-hall\/\" aria-hidden=\"true\" tabindex=\"-1\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" src=\"https:\/\/uwm.edu\/electa-quinney\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/778\/2026\/02\/eqi-library-150x150.jpg\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail wp-post-image\" alt=\"Bookshelves filled with books in the EQI Library\" \/><\/a><\/figure><div class=\"post-content\"><a class=\"post-title\" href=\"https:\/\/uwm.edu\/electa-quinney\/a-new-chapter-eqi-library-opens-in-holton-hall\/\">A New Chapter: EQI Library Opens in Holton Hall<\/a><time datetime=\"2025-09-25T09:17:00-05:00\" class=\"post-date\">September 25, 2025<\/time><div class=\"post-excerpt\">The Electa Quinney Institute (EQI) has recently acquired a new room in Holton Hall G79 where a collection of books is stored. The books came from a variety of people, including former EQI director Margaret Noodin in spring of 2023, and a collection already stored by the American Indian Student Center. In addition, there are &hellip; <\/div><\/div><\/li>\n<li><figure class=\"post-image\"><a href=\"https:\/\/uwm.edu\/electa-quinney\/fire-circle-soup-brings-warmth-community-and-connection-to-campus\/\" aria-hidden=\"true\" tabindex=\"-1\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/uwm.edu\/electa-quinney\/wp-content\/plugins\/uwm-blocks\/dist\/posts\/..\/images\/uwm-placeholder-300x300.png\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a><\/figure><div class=\"post-content\"><a class=\"post-title\" href=\"https:\/\/uwm.edu\/electa-quinney\/fire-circle-soup-brings-warmth-community-and-connection-to-campus\/\">Fire Circle Soup Brings Warmth, Community, and Connection to Campus<\/a><time datetime=\"2025-09-15T09:09:00-05:00\" class=\"post-date\">September 15, 2025<\/time><div class=\"post-excerpt\">On September 10th, over 80 students, staff, and community members gathered at the EQI Fire Circle for an afternoon of connection, storytelling, and shared nourishment at the Fire Circle Soup event\u2014co-hosted by the American Indian Student Center and the Electa Quinney Institute for American Indian Education.&nbsp; The event featured two soups styled after the \u201cStone &hellip; <\/div><\/div><\/li>\n<li><figure class=\"post-image\"><a href=\"https:\/\/uwm.edu\/electa-quinney\/honor-for-all-celebrating-indigenous-student-achievements-and-community-leadership\/\" aria-hidden=\"true\" tabindex=\"-1\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/uwm.edu\/electa-quinney\/wp-content\/plugins\/uwm-blocks\/dist\/posts\/..\/images\/uwm-placeholder-300x300.png\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a><\/figure><div class=\"post-content\"><a class=\"post-title\" href=\"https:\/\/uwm.edu\/electa-quinney\/honor-for-all-celebrating-indigenous-student-achievements-and-community-leadership\/\">Honor for All: Celebrating Indigenous Student Achievements and Community Leadership<\/a><time datetime=\"2025-05-14T10:27:00-05:00\" class=\"post-date\">May 14, 2025<\/time><div class=\"post-excerpt\">On Saturday, April 28th, the American Indian Student Center and the Electa Quinney Institute came together with students, community members and staff for our annual \u201cHonor for All\u201d event to celebrate the remarkable achievements of Indigenous students from across campus. The gathering, held at the Orthopedic Hospital of Wisconsin (OHOW), honored over 20 undergraduate and &hellip; <\/div><\/div><\/li>\n<li><figure class=\"post-image\"><a href=\"https:\/\/uwm.edu\/electa-quinney\/the-importance-of-indigenous-felt-knowledge-festival\/\" aria-hidden=\"true\" tabindex=\"-1\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/uwm.edu\/electa-quinney\/wp-content\/plugins\/uwm-blocks\/dist\/posts\/..\/images\/uwm-placeholder-300x300.png\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a><\/figure><div class=\"post-content\"><a class=\"post-title\" href=\"https:\/\/uwm.edu\/electa-quinney\/the-importance-of-indigenous-felt-knowledge-festival\/\">The Importance of Indigenous Felt Knowledge Festival<\/a><time datetime=\"2025-02-03T11:17:00-06:00\" class=\"post-date\">February 3, 2025<\/time><div class=\"post-excerpt\">On October 24th, 2024, the Electa Quinney Institute (EQI) and American Indian Student Center (AISC) held their annual Indigenous Felt Knowledge Festival. The festival celebrates the idea of \u201cfelt knowledge,\u201d which ascertains that the body carries knowledges and experiences that, as one student describes, \u201cCan be shared without the constriction of time and colonial restrictions.\u201d &hellip; <\/div><\/div><\/li>\n<li><figure class=\"post-image\"><a href=\"https:\/\/uwm.edu\/electa-quinney\/indigenous-kinship-responsibility-scholar-feature-michael-claus-thiel\/\" aria-hidden=\"true\" tabindex=\"-1\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/uwm.edu\/electa-quinney\/wp-content\/plugins\/uwm-blocks\/dist\/posts\/..\/images\/uwm-placeholder-300x300.png\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a><\/figure><div class=\"post-content\"><a class=\"post-title\" href=\"https:\/\/uwm.edu\/electa-quinney\/indigenous-kinship-responsibility-scholar-feature-michael-claus-thiel\/\">Indigenous Kinship &amp; Responsibility Scholar Feature: Michael Claus Thiel<\/a><time datetime=\"2025-01-28T11:24:00-06:00\" class=\"post-date\">January 28, 2025<\/time><div class=\"post-excerpt\">Michael Claus Thiel, a member of the Bad River Band of Lake Superior Ojibwe and a senior kinesiology student at the University of Wisconsin\u2013Milwaukee (51ÁÔÆæ), graduated at the end of the fall 2024 semester. An Indigenous Kinship and Responsibility (K&amp;R) Scholar since Fall of 2023, Michael recently shared his experiences in the program during an &hellip; <\/div><\/div><\/li>\n<li><figure class=\"post-image\"><a href=\"https:\/\/uwm.edu\/electa-quinney\/restoring-relationships-an-internship-experience-in-land-revitalization-with-eqi-mmsd\/\" aria-hidden=\"true\" tabindex=\"-1\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/uwm.edu\/electa-quinney\/wp-content\/plugins\/uwm-blocks\/dist\/posts\/..\/images\/uwm-placeholder-300x300.png\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a><\/figure><div class=\"post-content\"><a class=\"post-title\" href=\"https:\/\/uwm.edu\/electa-quinney\/restoring-relationships-an-internship-experience-in-land-revitalization-with-eqi-mmsd\/\">Restoring Relationships: An Internship Experience in Land Revitalization with EQI &amp; MMSD<\/a><time datetime=\"2024-11-01T11:57:00-05:00\" class=\"post-date\">November 1, 2024<\/time><div class=\"post-excerpt\">Students, EQI faculty\/staff, and MMSD staff who were involved in An Internship Experience in Land Revitalization In the summer of 2024, the Electa Quinney Institute (EQI) and the Milwaukee Metropolitan Sewerage District (MMSD) partnered up to help revitalize the land on some of the MMSD Green Seems parcels. The land parcels were primarily old agricultural &hellip; <\/div><\/div><\/li>\n<\/ul><\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"uwm-l-col uwm-l-col--4 uwm-l-offset--1\">\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading heading-separator-short size-h3\" id=\"h-upcoming-events\">Upcoming Events<\/h2>\n\n\n<ul class=\"uwm-u-events uwm-c-list--cleanlist uwm-c-list--border\"><li><div class=\"event-datebox\"><span class=\"event-datebox--month\">Apr<\/span><span class=\"event-datebox--date\">20<\/span><\/div><div class=\"event-content\"><div class=\"event-title\"><a href=\"https:\/\/uwm.edu\/electa-quinney\/event\/unpacking-nationhood-toward-indigeneity\/\">Unpacking Nationhood: Toward Indigeneity<\/a><\/div><div class=\"event-date\">April 20, 2026, 9:00am - 10:00am<\/div><\/div><\/li><li><div class=\"event-datebox\"><span class=\"event-datebox--month\">Apr<\/span><span class=\"event-datebox--date\">20<\/span><\/div><div class=\"event-content\"><div class=\"event-title\"><a href=\"https:\/\/uwm.edu\/electa-quinney\/event\/suicide-prevention-curriculum-in-social-work-in-the-midwest\/\">Suicide Prevention Curriculum in Social Work in the Midwest<\/a><\/div><div class=\"event-date\">April 20, 2026, 11:00am - 12:00pm<\/div><\/div><\/li><li><div class=\"event-datebox\"><span class=\"event-datebox--month\">Apr<\/span><span class=\"event-datebox--date\">21<\/span><\/div><div class=\"event-content\"><div class=\"event-title\"><a href=\"https:\/\/uwm.edu\/electa-quinney\/event\/which-will-prevail-the-transformation-of-eleazer-williams\/\">Which Will Prevail?: The Transformation of Eleazer Williams<\/a><\/div><div class=\"event-date\">April 21, 2026, 10:00am - 11:00am<\/div><\/div><\/li><li><div class=\"event-datebox\"><span class=\"event-datebox--month\">Apr<\/span><span class=\"event-datebox--date\">21<\/span><\/div><div class=\"event-content\"><div class=\"event-title\"><a href=\"https:\/\/uwm.edu\/electa-quinney\/event\/student-research-panel\/\">Student Research Panel<\/a><\/div><div class=\"event-date\">April 21, 2026, 12:00pm - 12:00pm<\/div><\/div><\/li><li><div class=\"event-datebox\"><span class=\"event-datebox--month\">Apr<\/span><span class=\"event-datebox--date\">21<\/span><\/div><div class=\"event-content\"><div class=\"event-title\"><a href=\"https:\/\/uwm.edu\/electa-quinney\/event\/when-the-body-seems-unnecessary\/\">When the Body Seems Unnecessary: An Alter-Native Imagination of Disabilities among the Igbo of Southern Nigeria and the American Indians<\/a><\/div><div class=\"event-date\">April 21, 2026, 3:00pm - 4:00pm<\/div><\/div><\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"size-p-md uwm-c-link--arrow\"><a href=\"https:\/\/uwm.edu\/electa-quinney\/events\"><strong>All events<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":0,"parent":71,"menu_order":4,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":"","uwm_wg_additional_authors":[]},"class_list":["post-69","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v27.3 (Yoast SEO v27.3) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-premium-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Electa Quinney Institute<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/uwm.edu\/electa-quinney\/about\/news-events\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"News &amp; 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