Virtual: Reckoning & Reconciliation on the Great Plains Summit (Read More)

The Center for Great Plains Studies describes the event as "The 2022 Great Plains conference asks how residents of the Great Plains can best reckon with the violence, conflict, and abuse that has occurred in our region and move toward healing, justice, and reconciliation. It invites us to remember and honor the painful past, and then to imagine and build new relationships and communities based on respect and dignity for all." You click here or copy and past this link https://www.eventbrite.com/e/reckoning-reconciliation-on-the-great-plains-summit-registration-256155617347 in your browser to register.

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Contemporary Indigeneity 2022 Exhibit Opening and Talk (Read More)

For the fourth iteration of Contemporary Indigeneity, the Great Plains Art Museum sought Indigenous artists addressing issues and themes relevant to the contemporary Native American experience on the Great Plains. A panel of Native American art curators blindly reviewed the submitted works and made selections based on the artwork’s aesthetic merit and contribution to the field of contemporary Native art. The exhibit and opening talk will occur April 1st at 4 p.m. at the Great Plains Art Museum.

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Virtual: Roots of Injustice, Seeds of Change Workshop (Read More)

This workshop is presented by Jerilyn DeCoteau (Turtle Mountain Chippewa) and Paula Palmer, co-directors of Toward Right Relationship with Native Peoples (Friends Peace Teams). It is put on by the Center for Great Plains Studies at the University of Nebraska as part of their year-long series of events: "A Year of Reckoning and Reconciliation: Conversation, Learning, and Connecting." CGPS describes the event as a "2-hour participatory workshop, [where] participants will experience the history of the colonization of Turtle Island, the land that is now known as the United States. The story will be told through the words of Indigenous leaders, European/American leaders, and Western historians. Participants will engage with this history through experiential exercises and small group discussions. All will be invited to consider how to build relationships with Indigenous peoples based on truth, respect, justice, and our shared humanity." Register for the workshop here or copy and past this link https://www.eventbrite.com/e/roots-of-injustice-seeds-of-change-workshop-registration-261904833407 into your browser.

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