Join the Oklahoma Black Homesteader Project research team for a public talk on Black homesteaders in Oklahoma Territory. The presentation with Kalenda Eaton and Heidi Dodson will discuss the process of researching and locating specific homesteading families. There will be a focus on select counties and a preview of new archival research that expands common understandings of the Black homesteading experience.

This free online event is part of the Center for Great Plains Studies’ series, “A Year of Reckoning and Reconciliation: Conversation, Learning and Connecting,” which invites participants to recognize the Great Plains’ complex history and then imagine and build new relationships and communities based on respect and dignity for all.