A Brief History of Indigenous Chicago
@ Goethe-Institut Chicago
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Opening Tuesday, November 14th, at 6PM
Indigenous peoples lived in the Chicago area for thousands of years before the arrival of European and American adventurers, explorers, missionaries, and colonists. Who were they, how did they live, and how did they respond to settler colonialism? Dr. John N. Low (Pokagon Band Potawatomi) will provide an Indigenous perspective on the invasion of the Great Lakes region.
This talk is the final event for ‘Land in Common,’ an interdisciplinary symposium on land justice presented by the Goethe-Institut Chicago, the Chicago Architecture Biennial, and Bubbly Dynamics LLC, owner and operator of the former meatpacking facility now known as The Plant. Click here for a full schedule of our in-person only events on Saturday, November 11th at The Plant: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/745507441827?aff=oddtdtcreator
Dr. John N. Low is a citizen of the Pokagon Band of Potawatomi Indians, an associate professor at the Ohio State University in Comparative Studies, and Director of the Newark Earthworks Center at the University. Low received his Ph.D. in American Culture at the University of Michigan and also earned a graduate certificate in Museum Studies and a Juris Doctorate from that University. He received a BA from Michigan State University, a second BA in American Indian Studies from the University of Minnesota, and an MA in Social Sciences from the University of Chicago. His research interests and courses at the Ohio State University include American Indian histories, literatures, and cultures, Native identities, American Indian religions, Indigenous canoe cultures around the world, Urban American Indians, museums, material culture and representation, memory studies, Indigenous futures, American Indian law and treaty rights, Indigenous cross-cultural connections, and TIK environmental perspectives and practices.
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