Speaker: Chiara Beaumont, Do’wal Sehi

Friday, February 7, 2025, 6:00 PM

Chiara L. Beaumont; Indigenous Resistance Educator, Language Keeper, & Artist; Karankawa - Hawk Clan 

On Friday, February 7, at 6:00 p.m., join Language Keeper Do’wal Sehi (Sunshine in English) as she shares a humble retelling of the journey of revitalizing the Karankawa Language. This lecture is 45 minutes long and begins with a contemporary history of the Karankawa People, the discovery and cumulation of Karankawa Vocabulary, the hardships along the way, new discoveries, and where the path of larger cultural revitalization is heading. Hear the tried-and-true story of how nothing that is ever labeled as “extinct” really ever is and also see the exhibit KARANKAWA: AN ENDURING CULTURE OF TEXAS EXHIBIT on display until March 29, 2025. $5 Program Ticket includes wine and cheese reception and access to the exhibit.

Speaker’s Biography:

Do’wal Sehi is an indigenous educator, resistance artist, and language keeper from the Karankawa Hawk Clan. She currently works as an Indigenous Educator for a Health and Wellness Resort where she is inspired by Karankawa spirituality and ideology to hold space for and educate others to reconnect to the natural world, undo harmful colonial rhetoric, and find peace within themselves and the Mother Earth.

Her goal is to protect and serve her people, the original land stewards, and to educate those who are seeking it. On this journey, she has organized protests for her people, spoken at call to actions advocating for repatriation, reparations, and basic human rights, designed and offered classes and lectures, as well as shown in gallery spaces across Austin, TX. Her most recent goal is to inspire resistance, decolonization, and education through her art and lectures.