Join History Jackson Hole for a Western Scholar Talk with Philip J. Deloria the Leverett Saltonstall Professor of History at Harvard University and Yankton Dakota Native American author.
Why do Native American people feel it important to remind others that “we are still here”? How did the massive land transfer from tribes to the United States take place, and how might we render an honest accounting of its costs and benefits? How should we understand the unique political status of tribal nations?
This talk will deal with these questions and more, offering an overview of issues surrounding Native American people in relation to the United States, looking closely at new histories, innovations in Native arts and cultures, and the emergent world of global indigeneity.
This talk is free and open to the public and will take place on the History Museum’s outside Deck (weather permitting). Doors open at 6 p.m. at 175 East Broadway Ave.
Philip J. Deloria is the Leverett Saltonstall Professor of History at Harvard University, where his research and teaching focus on the social, cultural and political histories of the relations among American Indian peoples and the United States. He is the author of several books, including "Playing Indian," "Indians in Unexpected Places," and "Becoming Mary Sully: Toward an American Indian Abstract," as well as two co-edited books and numerous articles and chapters.
Deloria received the Ph.D. in American Studies from Yale University and has taught at the University of Colorado and the University of Michigan. He has been a long-serving trustee of the Smithsonian Institution’s National Museum of the American Indian, president of the American Studies Association, the Organization of American Historians, and the Society of American Historians, and is an elected member of the American Philosophical Society and the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.
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