APCDIA Upcoming Events
Native American and Indigenous Peoples Heritage Month Events
My Identity: A Conversation with Ashley Wolford (Chata)
Tuesday, November 4
6:00 - 7:30 p.m.
Main Campus, Pedroso Center, B159
Join us in conversation with Ashley Wolford (Chata) in celebration of Native and Indigenous Heritage Month. Ashley will speak to her journey as a former youth in care, her conversion to Islam and how her involvement in various activist spaces across Chicago while navigating life as chronically disabled provided structure in her life where it never existed and supported her ongoing identity development as an Urban Native.
Tea Workshop w/Jeffrey Le
Thursday, November 6
3:00 - 4:30 p.m.
Main Campus, Pedroso Center, B159
Learn about tea types, history, and production from Jeffrey Le, a member of the Chicago Tea Collective. The Chicago Tea Collective is a community group that brings Chicago-area tea enthusiasts together for events like CommuniTeas, which are tea-focused meetups that often feature the traditional gongfu cha style of brewing. They organize gatherings to share tea and build connections, and their events are often held at various locations around the city. The group is passionate about spreading traditional tea culture and fostering a local tea community.
Rock Your Mocs
Sunday - Saturday, November 9 - 15
All week
Rock Your Mocs is a social media campaign where you can celebrate Native pride and unity by joining Indigenous People worldwide in wearing your moccasins or traditional footwear. How to Participate: Whether it’s for a day or all week show support for the First Peoples by wearing your traditional footwear and upload a picture to instagram with #RockYourMocsNEIU #RockYourMocs2025 & by tagging @pedrosocenter.
Short Attention Span Book Club: Papercuts by Jim Terry (Ho-chunk)
Tuesday, November 11
2:00 - 4:00 p.m.
Main Campus, Pedroso Center, B159
Join Pedroso Center for a different kind of book club focusing on narratives that can be read in a single sitting followed by group discussion. Jim Terry (Ho-Chunk) is a Chicago comic book artist whose memoir Come Home, Indio was a finalist for the LA Times Book Prize. Jim recently was an artist-in-residence at the Newberry Library, and his new graphic novel, Paper Cuts, commissioned for Indigenous Chicago, reflects his personal journey through the library’s collections and its vast holdings in American Indian and Indigenous Studies.
