Join director John O’Keefe, professor of Theology and Journalism at Creighton University, and Mary Ann Vinton, associate professor of biology at Creighton University, for a screening of “The Last Prairie.” The film examines the Sandhills through the perspectives of ecologists, those who live and work there, and the Indigenous people whose ancestors were driven off […]
If a prairie could speak, what would it say? The Last Prairie is a documentary film by John O’Keefe, a theologian and documentary filmmaker at Creighton University, that profiles the Sandhills of Nebraska, one of the last remaining intact temperate grasslands in the world. Presented through voices from three different communities, the film listens to ecologists […]
"The Last Prairie" is a film about the Nebraska Sandhills, a vast grassland in Nebraska. Its 20,000 square miles comprise the largest area of stabilized sand dunes in the Western Hemisphere and it has been recently described as the most intact temperate grassland on earth. The film offers an intimate portrait of the Sandhills, presented […]