March 28, 2026
10:30 AM - 12:00 PM
Student Union Piedra Room
FREE
Celebrate the 60th annual Hozhoni Days Powwow, and join the Native American Alumni Chapter and FLC Alumni Office for a delicious breakfast. Reconnect with fellow Alumni, listen to our special guest speaker Marique Moss, and catch up on NAAC and FLC updates. Pre registration has closed. Please email alumni@fortlewis.edu if you'd like to attend and have not yet registered.
The event will take place in the Piedra Room in the San Juan Dining Hall, inside the FLC Student Union Building, from 10 a.m. to noon on Saturday, March 28, 2026.
Keynote Speaker: Marique Moss
Marique B. Moss (Miriguá Miásh), whose traditional name means Woman in the Water, is a Hidatsa, Black, and Dakota writer, community educator, and organizer from Minneapolis, Minnesota. She is an enrolled member of the Mandan, Hidatsa, and Arikara Nation and a proud alumna of Fort Lewis College , where she earned her degree in Native American and Indigenous Studies and was named the Outstanding Student of the Year in Native American and Indigenous Studies in 2019. While at Fort Lewis College she also co-founded the Black Student Resource Center, where she served as both Secretary and Treasurer during her junior and senior years. Marique later earned her Master of Legal Studies in Indigenous Peoples Law from University of Oklahoma college of Law in 2020. She is the Co-Owner of Mashkiki Studios, a Minneapolis based creative and education studio and apothecary that develops Indigenous centered curriculum, supports statewide implementation, and provides professional development and land based community workshops for educators, museums, libraries, and historical societies. Marique is the author of Sweetgrass and Soul Food: A Memoir in Poems, the journal Sweetgrass and Soul Work, and the children’s book My Afro Indigenous Superpower. She currently serves as Vice President of the Native American Alumni Chapter at Fort Lewis College and is honored to return to Fort Lewis College to share reflections on community, identity, and the paths alumni carry forward beyond campus.