HMA LECTURE | Chris Sockalexis: Penobscot Nation Tribal Historic Preservation Officer

Join the Haffenreffer Museum of Anthropology as we welcome Christopher Sockalexis (Penobscot), Penobscot Nation Tribal Historic Preservation Officer, he discusses where his work intersects as a tribal official, cultural tourism guide, artist and archaeologist.

In addition to his work as the Tribal Historic Preservation Officer for the Penobscot Nation, Chris is currently conducting research for his Masters of Science degree at the University of Maine Climate Change Institute, with his thesis work focusing on Cultural Identity and Maritime Adaptation in Frenchman Bay, Maine. Chris is also artist, and cultural tourism guide, and is one of the lead singers of the RezDogs, an intertribal powwow drum group based out of Indian Island, Maine. He serves on the Abbe Museum Board of Trustees and is also an avid canoe and kayak paddler who loves being out in the Maine woods and on the waterways that his ancestors have traveled for thousands of years.

This program is part of the Haffenreffer Museums 2024-2025 Programming Initiative to highlight Indigenous professionals working in the fields of tribal historic preservation and repatriation work, to discuss the intersection and overlap of these professions and how museums such as the HMA can best work to support them.6:00 pm | Reception6:15 pm | Lecture beginsSupported by generous donors to Shepard Krech III Lecture Fund.

Brown University Manning Hall