A first-year seminar by Assistant Professor Shawon Kinew has been the focus of a feature in the Havard Gazette.

The seminar focuses on the 19th century oil portraits of 25 Native leaders captured in an era of forced relocation. The course titled “The First Americans: Portraits of Indigenous Diplomacy and Power” asks questions relating to "the interplay of art, identity, and representation," providing the students a chance to have “a conversation with the past.”

“The takeaway is that the past still needs to be...