Expert on Osage Nation to Speak at Pryor Center April 15
Jean Dennison, a member of the Osage Nation, associate professor of American Indian Studies at the University of Washington and co-director for the Center for American Indian and Indigenous Studies, will speak to the Northwest Arkansas community at 6 p.m., Friday, April 15, at the David and Barbara Pryor Center for Arkansas Oral and Visual History. A reception will follow in the main lobby.
Dennison's talk, "Reclaiming Our Land: The Osage Nation Pursuit of Self-Determination," will engage with issues of national revitalization and build on her work on Osage politics. She has published extensively in journals such as Visual Anthropology, PoLAR, American Indian Quarterly, the American Indian Culture and Research Journal, American Ethnologist and The Native American and Indigenous Studies Journal and is author of Colonial Entanglement: Constituting a Twenty-First-Century Osage Nation (UNC Press, 2012).
This is the first event in the year-long celebration of the Buffalo National River that is being sponsored by the U of A Chancellor's Fund and is under the management of the U of A Humanities Center and University Libraries' Special Collections. U of A professor Sean Teuton, director of indigenous studies, and professor emeritus George Sabo conceptualized and organized this event. Find out about forthcoming events from our research teams in the university and community here.
This event will be held in person and via Zoom. If you wish to attend virtually, please register in advance with an email address that is associated with a Zoom account. Registration is not required for in-person attendance.
The Pryor Center is located at 1 E. Center St., Suite 120. The event is free and open to the public, and parking is available on the Fayetteville Square.
Topics
- Belonging
- Lectures, Colloquia & Symposia
- Events
- Humanities
- Fulbright College of Arts & Sciences
- University Libraries
- UA System
- Department of Anthropology
- Department of English
- Department of History
- Arkansas Archeological Survey
- Division of Special Collections
- Pryor Center for Arkansas Oral & Visual History
Contacts
Trish Starks, professor
Department of History
479-575-7592,
tstarks@uark.edu
Andra Parrish Liwag, director of communications
Fulbright College of Arts and Sciences
479-575-4393,
liwag@uark.edu
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