Center for the Humanities

Eric Zimmer
Thursday, Oct. 10, 2024

Book Discussion
4 p.m., Humanities and Social Studies Center, Room A2231 (Auditorium) — Note change in location

He will lead a book discussion about his book, Red Earth Nation: A History of the Meskwaki Settlement.

Public Talk
7 p.m., Humanities and Social Studies Center, Room A2231 (Auditorium)

Reclaiming the Indigenous Midwest: The Meskwaki Settlement as #Landback

Red Earth Nation: A History of the Meskwaki Settlement (University of Oklahoma Press: Norman, 2024)

Bailey J. Dann ’17
Thursday, Nov. 21, 2024

4:15 p.m., Humanities and Social Studies Center, Room S1325

Where the Medicine Grows: Healing Generational Trauma through
Land, Language, and Culture

Dr. Ned Blackhawk (Western Shoshone)
Howard R. Lamar Professor of History, Yale University

Thursday, Sept. 19, 2024
Rosenfield Center 101, 7 p.m.

Resisting the Mythology of Indigenous Disappearance: Native Activists in the Early 20th Century World

“If our schools and universities are to remain vital civic institutions, we must create richer and more truthful accounts of the American Republic’s origins, expansion, and current form. Studying and teaching America’s Indigenous truths reveal anew the varied meanings of America”

The Rediscovery of America: Native Peoples and the Unmaking of U.S. History (Yale UP, 2023), 2023 National Book Award for Nonfiction