NAHC is also defined by the many activities in which members participate, both on- and off-campus.

At the beginning of the year, members traveled to Washington D.C. for the opening of the National Museum of the American Indian, an event that drew Natives from the top of Canada to the bottom of South America, according to Lussier.

The pictures they took at the event are now on display in a slide show at the Peabody Museum, which houses one of the most extensive records of human cultural history in the Western Hemisphere.

“There’s a slide show of us and our pictures there,” says Lussier. “It’s kind of cool.”

Last month NAHC helped host a conference to celebrate the 350th anniversary of the Harvard Indian College, which was established in 1655 to fulfill a pledge Harvard made in the Founding Charter of 1650.

NAHC has also attended powwows at Brown and Cornell, and on April 23, the group helped to organize its own powwow at the Bright Hockey Center.

Powwows are cultural ceremonies, complete with traditional drumming, dancing, and Native American food.

Members of the group also traveled to a Gathering of Nations in New Mexico last weekend, and have plans to visit Dartmouth to attend its powwow this Saturday.

“It’s powwow season at the Ivies,” says Lussier, who met her boyfriend at one of the off-campus events.

Lussier says that NAHC’s events and issues are giving the group more of a presence on campus.

“If this kind of thing keeps up, I see it as being a very, very prominent group on campus,” she says. “Important things are happening within NAHC. People are seeing us and that we’re here.”

—Staff writer Monica M. Clark can be reached at mclark@fas.harvard.edu.