Indigenous Archival Activism: Mohican Interventions in Public History and Memory

This program will take place at Chicago Public Library's Harold Washington Center.

Tracing one tribe’s fifty-year fight to recover and rewrite its history, Indigenous Archival Activism takes readers into the heart of debates over who owns and has the right to tell Native American history and stories. Rose Miron tells the story of the Stockbridge-Munsee Mohican Nation and its Historical Committee, showing how their work is exemplary of how tribal archives can strategically shift how Native history is accessed, represented, written, and, most important, controlled.

The second American Writers Festival is presented by the American Writers Museum and Chicago Public Library. The free literary festival will be held at multiple stages inside the Harold Washington Library Center and feature a variety of leading contemporary authors, poets, artists, and playwrights. The Festival consists of discussion panels and author signings with prominent writers across various genres, including children’s and young adult fiction, science fiction, history, biographies, poetry, and satire, who will share their insights into their craft. Participating writers will address their perspectives on many of today’s most timely and controversial topics including immigration, book censorship, racism, and equality through themes within their literature.

This program is free and open to all, with no advance registration required.

Speakers

Rose Miron, director of the Newberry’s D’Arcy McNickle Center for American Indian and Indigenous Studies, where she directs public and scholarly programs designed to further the effective use of the Newberry's substantial related collections and to make those collections more accessible to Native communities across North America.

Jean O’Brien, (White Earth Ojibwe) is Regents Professor and McKnight Distinguished University Professor of History at the University of Minnesota. Her most recent book, co-authored with Lisa Blee, is Monumental Mobility: The Memory Work of Massasoit.

Cost and Registration

This program is free and open to all, with no advance registration required.

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Past Public Programs

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