Citizens of a Stolen Land: A Conversation of Ho-Chunk History & Survivance
Schedule
Sat Feb 15 2025 at 11:00 am to 12:00 pm
UTC-06:00Location
345 Kellogg Blvd W, Saint Paul, MN, United States, Minnesota 55102 | Saint Paul, MN
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Join historian Stephen Kantrowitz and Josie Lee, Director of the Ho-Chunk Nation Museum & Cultural Center, for a conversation on Ho-Chunk history, land, and contemporary life. Together, they will speak about Kantrowitz’s new book Citizens of a Stolen Land: A Ho-Chunk History of Nineteenth-Century United States and Lee’s work in promoting, sheltering, and preserving past, present, and future Ho-Chunk ways of life. Kantrowitz’s book reconsiders the Civil War and Reconstruction eras by centering the Ho-Chunk and their strategic navigation of colonization, citizenship, and race to remain in their homelands and protect their sovereignty.Biographies
Josie Lee is an enrolled member of the Ho-Chunk Nation of Wisconsin. She is an independent curator, artist, and museum consultant with over 10 years in the museum field. Her work has been featured at the Field Museum, La Crosse County Historical Society, Overture Center for the Arts, and more. She currently serves as the director of the Ho-Chunk Nation Museum & Cultural Center. Josie holds a MA in Museology from University of Washington and is currently a doctoral student in Civil Society & Community Studies within the School of Human Ecology at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
Stephen Kantrowitz is Plaenert Bascom and Vilas Distinguished Achievement Professor of History at the University of Wisconsin-Madison and a historian of race, indigeneity, politics, and citizenship in the nineteenth-century United States. In addition to Citizens of a Stolen Land, he is author of the acclaimed books More than Freedom: Fighting for Black Citizenship in a White Republic, 1829-1889 and Ben Tillman and the Reconstruction of White Supremacy. He is also an engaged public historian, working closely with two UW campus initiatives researching the university’s histories of exclusion and resistance and its Native past and present.
Note: Lectures will have live captioning
This lecture is part of the History Forum series. Visit The History Forum landing page for more information.
Individual event tickets: $15-20/MNHS members save 20%
For series pricing (all 6 events): $78-105/MNHS members save 20%
Free student rush tickets day-of with student ID, K-12 & college (as space allows)
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