Indigenous People and the Chicago Portage
Schedule
Thu Nov 21 2024 at 05:30 pm
UTC-06:00Location
60 W Walton St, Chicago, IL, United States, Illinois 60610 | Chicago, IL
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Title: Indigenous People and the Chicago PortageSpeakers: Eric Hemenway | John William Nelson | Raphael Wahwassuck
Date: Thursday, November 21st, 2024
Location: The Newberry Library | 60 West Walton St., Chicago, IL
Time: 5:30 pm CT (Social Time) & 6:00 pm CT (Presentation)
Speaker Bios:
Eric Hemenway, an Anishinaabe/Odawa, is Director of Repatriation, Archives, and Records for the Little Traverse Bay Bands of Odawa Indians of Waganakising—The Land of the Crooked Tree—located in the northwest portion of the lower peninsula of Michigan. He has a lifelong involvement in researching Odawa history. He has collaborated widely with museums, universities, the National Park Service, schools, and various governments in conducting and presenting research to a wide range of audiences, including to students, staff, faculty, and the general public. He has a wide range of speaking experiences, writing accomplishments, and media projects.
John William Nelson, Assistant Professor of History at Texas Tech University, explores the ways ecology and geography shaped the terms of cross-cultural interaction between Native peoples and European colonizers from first contact through the early republican era of the United States. He is the author of Muddy Ground: Native Peoples, Chicago’s Portage, and the Transformation of a Continent, which explores how a particular local landscape along Chicago’s continental divide influenced colonial encounters from the seventeenth through the nineteenth centuries.
Raphael Wahwassuck is a Tribal Council member and Tribal Historic Preservation Officer for the Prairie Band Potawatomi Nation.
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Where is it happening?
60 W Walton St, Chicago, IL, United States, Illinois 60610Event Location & Nearby Stays:
