This program will be held virtually, on Zoom. Please register here.

In this year’s event, join us for an introduction to several of the all-new interactive maps created for our Indigenous Chicago project. Scholars involved in development of the maps will speak to the maps they worked on and discuss the challenges they faced in deciding how to represent various cultural aspects.

The D’Arcy McNickle Distinguished Speaker Series celebrates Indigenous scholars, writers, and artists who consistently demonstrate excellence in their work concerning Indigenous peoples and histories and who actively address contemporary issues faced by American Indian and Indigenous communities. Past programs in the series have featured Ned Blackhawk, Leslie Marmon Silko, Winona LaDuke, and Nick Estes.

This event is part of programming connected with our free exhibition, Indigenous Chicago, running September 12, 2024, through January 4, 2025. Programming for the exhibition and related programs is generously supported by Art Design Chicago.

Cosponsored by the Chicago Collections Consortium.

Speakers

Joshua Friedlein, an enrolled citizen of the Cherokee Nation and a Master of Forestry candidate at the Yale School of the Environment, studies wildfire mitigation, transboundary land management, and Indigenous land stewardship through an anticolonial and decolonized framework. As a Teaching Fellow at the Yale Center for Environmental Justice, Joshua works to create lasting partnerships among YSE, Tribal Nations, and intertribal organizations. He also facilitates shared stewardship of the Yale Forests in Connecticut, Vermont, and New Hampshire with the original caretakers and inhabitants of those lands.

Mishuana Goeman, Tonawanda Band of Seneca, is Professor of Gender Studies, American Indian Studies, and affiliated faculty of Critical Race Studies in the Law School, and Special Advisor to the Chancellor on Native American and Indigenous Affairs at the University of California, Los Angeles. She is the author of Mark My Words: Native Women Mapping Our Nations and Settler Aesthetics: Visualizing the Spectacle of Originary Moments in The New World. Her community-based digital projects include Mapping Indigenous LA and Carrying Our Ancestors Home.

George Ironstrack, Miami Tribe of Oklahoma, is Assistant Director and Director of Education of the Myaamia Center at Miami University. He has participated in Miami language renewal projects as both a student and a teacher since the late 1990s. He earned a Master of Arts in Origins and History of the United States from the Department of History at Miami University; his graduate research centered on the Miami Indian village of Pickawillany, which was located in western Ohio near the city of Piqua. Find examples of his work on the Myaamia Community Blog: aacimotaatiiyankwi.org.

Kelli Mosteller, an enrolled citizen of the Citizen Potawatomi Nation in Shawnee, Oklahoma, is Executive Director of the Harvard University Native American Program. She previously served as Executive Director of the Citizen Potawatomi Nation Cultural Heritage Center for eleven years, where she oversaw the tribal museum and cultural programming. She was also the Tribal Historic Preservation Officer, NAGPRA Coordinator, and Gaming Commissioner. Her most cherished role within her community has been as mentor for Citizen Potawatomi youth and auntie for the eagles at the Citizen Potawatomi Nation Eagle Aviary.

Kabl Wilkerson, an enrolled member of the Citizen Potawatomi Nation (Bourassa & Muller families; Bear Clan), is a doctoral candidate in the History Department at Harvard University. Their scholarly interests examine the evolving contradictions in US Indian policy from the early nineteenth to the early twentieth centuries as shifting forms of imperial state-building practices. In their free time, they work on Bodéwadmik (Potawatomi) and Great Lakes Indian histories with other Neshnabé, non-Neshnabé, and non-native scholars, ranging from the early seventeenth to the mid-twentieth centuries.
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