U.S. Settler Colonialism and the Osage in Kansas (Native American Program Series)
Join us to learn how nineteenth century U.S. Indian policy functioned as settler colonialism, displacing Indigenous nations across the eastern United States, including the Osage who were expelled from their Missouri homelands and confined to a reservation in Kansas.
Bio: Dr. Edwards is a historian and director of the Kansas Studies Institute at Johnson County Community College. Her book Osage Women and Empire was published by the University Press of Kansas in 2018. She is an officer in the Kansas Association of Historians (KAH) and the Kansas Association for Native American Education (KANAE). She has collaborated on many projects including recording veterans' oral histories, preserving the Quindaro ruins in Kansas City, Kansas, and rematriating a sacred boulder in Lawrence to the Kaw Nation.
Fees
This program is free and open to the public.
Location
The program will be in the park theater on the top floor of the Infantry Barracks.
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Carl Brenner
620-223-0310
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- Cultural/Craft Demonstration
- Talk