Potawatomi Removals: Forced and "Voluntary"

George Godfrey (Citizen Band Potawatomi) in regalia.
Image Courtesy of George Godfrey.

October 11, 2021

7 PM

Free, Registration required for Zoom Event.

 https://osu.zoom.us/meeting/register/tJAkd-2pqTIsGNSKeNpdiIJ7K36O8rd8xMRv

If you require an accommodation such as live captioning or interpretation to participate in this event, or other accommodations, please contact the Humanities Institute.

PDF of October 11, 2021
George Godfrey Event Flyer.
English OCR Text Enabled.

The removals of many Potawatomi from the land regions of around southern Lake Michigan – the result of socio-political, cultural conflict, and diminishing resource pressures – is the focus of this event. The “voluntary” removals, largely traced back to the Chicago 1833 treaty, and one forced removal, the Trail of Death, will be discussed in detail by our speaker, Dr. George Godfrey, whose presentation is supported by a Global Arts + Humanities Discovery Theme grant.

George Godfrey, a Citizen Potawatomi, grew up on the Potawatomi, Sisseton-Whapeton Sioux, Hopi, Omaha, and Winnebago reservations. After receiving his doctorate from Cornell University, he researched Lepidoptera at the Illinois Natural History Survey, became a faculty member and then a university administrator at Haskell Indian Nations University before serving as National Program Leader for the U.S. Department of Agriculture, where he assisted 31 Tribal Colleges and Universities in the development of their undergraduate curricula and research programs.  In addition to his 40+ scientific publications, he has written six books, Watchekee (Overseer) Walking in Two Cultures, Once a Grass Widow: Watchekee’s Destiny, The Indian Marble, Road to Uncertainty: Trials of Potawatomi Removals, Cheyenne Oil and A Perilous Journey.  Dr. Godfrey also is President of the Potawatomi Trail of Death Association (www.potawatomi-tda.org), which memorializes the trail that the Potawatomi took when forcibly removed from northcentral Indiana and taken to east central Kansas in 1838. He is a traditional powwow dancer and storyteller and, with his Pat, have three to nine grown children ‒ depending on how you count.

For more information,

Visit:

• Citizen Band of Potawatomi
• Stepping Out & Stepping Up: The Land-Grant Truth and Reconciliation Project .
• Humanities Institute
• Potawatomi Trail of Death Association
• Potawatomi Trail of Death Chief Menominee Statue
• VisitMarshallCounty.org
• "Treaty with the Chippewa, Etc., 1833" [Treaty of Chicago].
• September 26, 1833.
• Indian affairs: laws and treaties compiled and edited by Charles J. Kappler. pg. 402-415 [410- of 1110]. | Digitized by University of California and HathiTrust.
• Culver through the years | Culver Union Township Carnegie Library
• Indians of Lake Macinkuckee
• Indian Chiefs of the Area
• The Trail of Death
• Other Local Indian Resources
• Maps of the Culver/Lake Maxinkuckee Area
• Union Township 1835 Map.
• Illinois Natural History Survey
• Insect Collection Search
• GBIF | Global Biodiversity Information Facility

Free Community Book Club and Discussion with Author Featuring "Playing Indian" by Phillip J. Deloria [Standing Rock Sioux Tribe]

Playing Indian
by Phillip J. Deloria

Members of the community are invited to participate in One Book, One Community, a free community book club hosted by The Ohio State University at Newark and Central Ohio Technical College (COTC) in partnership with the public library systems of Licking County. This year’s book selection is Playing Indian by Philip J. Deloria. A virtual discussion with the author will be held on Monday, October 11, at 3 p.m.

Complimentary copies of the book are available to the first 100 registrants who reside in Licking County. Participants may pick up a book at any public library in Licking County or request that a copy be mailed to their home address. A limited number of free e-books and e-audio books are available to download through any of the public libraries in Licking County. 

• Granville Public Library
• Licking County Library

PDF of October 11, 2021 Zoom Event
Free Community Book Club. 
English OCR Text Enabled.

Free and Open to the Public Zoom event 

3 PM on October 11th

Register to attend this virtual event at any public library in Licking County or contact Laura Walsh at 740.364.9514 or walsh.276@osu.edu.

Playing Indian explores how white Americans have used their ideas about Native Americans to shape national identity in different eras — and how Indian people have reacted to these imitations of their native dress, language and ritual. The Boston Tea Party, the Order of Red Men, Camp Fire Girls, Boy Scouts and Grateful Dead concerts are just a few examples of white Americans' tendency to appropriate Indian dress and act out Indian roles.

Deloria suggests that imagining Indians has helped generations of white Americans define, mask and evade paradoxes stemming from the simultaneous construction and destruction of these native peoples. In the process, Americans have created powerful identities that have never been fully secure.

Deloria is a 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, as well as the comparative and connective histories of indigenous peoples in a global context. He is also a trustee of the Smithsonian Institution’s National Museum of the American Indian, where he chairs the Repatriation Committee. Along with Erika Doss, he is the series editor of CultureAmerica, a University Press of Kansas series focused on American cultural history.

One Book, One Community is made possible through the Melissa Warner Bow endowed fund, The Licking County Foundation, United Way of Licking County, The Energy Cooperative Operation Round Up Foundation and Park National Bank are also sponsoring the event.

For more information,

Visit:

• The Ohio State University at Newark Press Release. September 1, 2021.
• National Museum of the American Indian
• Americans Exhibit
• A Conversation about "Americans" YouTube video with Curators Paul Chaat Smith [Comanche] and Cécile R. Ganteaume, and Director Kevin Gover [Pawnee] and Artist, curator, and writer Gerald McMaster (Plains Cree/Member of the Siksika First Nation) moderates. 
• Mascots
• Racist Stereotypes and Cultural Appropriation in American Sports Symposium 2013.
• CultureAmerica | University Press of Kansas
• Lenape: Imagining the Indigenous States of America with Philip Deloria [Standing Rock Sioux Tribe]
• SAR School for Advanced Research YouTube. April 2021.
• Harvard History Professor Philip Deloria on Native American Activist Vine Deloria.
• C-SPAN. September 13, 2019.
• "Native Modern"
• Marina N. Bolotnikova. Harvard Magazine. January-February 2019.

Land-Grab Universities: Owning the Truth and Sharing the Path to Making Amends

 

Humanities Collaboratory

October 6, 2021 

12 - 2 PM Eastern Time. 

The two lead authors of High Country News’ Land-Grab Universities Report: Tristan Ahtone and Bobby Lee will discuss their ground-breaking account of how the Morrill Act was funded through the seizure and sale of Native lands, with ongoing legacies in endowment funds and Indigenous dispossession.  

ADDITIONAL SPEAKERS:

• Tsianina Lomawaima (Arizona State U) & Kelly McDonough (U of Texas): Co-Editors of the Native American and Indigenous Studies Special Issue on Land-Grab Universities
• Theresa Ambo (UC San Diego): The Complicity and Complacency of Land-Grant Universities
• Michael Roberts (First Nations Development Institute): Connecting Universities with Leaders of Tribes Whose Land was Taken and Sold to Fund Land-Grant Institutions

FREE, Zoom Registration Link. 

If you require an accommodation such as live captioning or interpretation to participate in this event, or other accommodations, please contact the Humanities Institute.

In partnership with The Ohio State University’s Humanities Institute and funded through generous support from The Ohio State University’s Global Arts + Humanities Discovery Theme Grants Program. Co-sponsors include the First Nations Development Institute, the Native American and Indigenous Studies Association, as well as the editors of the Native American and Indigenous Studies Journal.

For more information,

Visit:

• Stepping Out & Stepping Up Racial Justice Project Blog
• Research
• Senator Morrill Act of 1862 Resources
• High Country News | Land-Grab Universities
• Land-Grab Universities Report
• GitHub Repository for the HCN investigation, "Land-Grab Universities" including the "Morrill Act of 1862 Indigenous Land Parcels Database."
• Note: Control+F or Command+F on a Mac will bring up a search box which you can use to search for specific text within the data.

What is Orange Shirt Day?

Join Intercultural Specialist, Melissa Beard Jacob, for a presentation surrounding Orange Shirt Day and its history and significance to Native American and Indigenous communities and the impacts of boarding/residential school experiences. 

 
The Ohio State Community will be observing Orange Shirt Day on Thursday, September 30. Please remember to wear your orange! Participants who attend this information session will have an opportunity to stop by the Student Life Multicultural Center and receive an official Native OSU Orange Shirt Day t-shirt. 
 
If you require an accommodation such as live captioning or interpretation to participate in this event, please contact Madison Eagle at eagle.41@osu.edu. Requests made two weeks in advance will generally allow us to provide seamless access, but the university will make every effort to meet requests made after this date.  

Thursday, September 16, 2021, 6 p.m. - 7 p.m.

Zoom

Free

Event Recording

Registration is required. To register: https://go.osu.edu/orangeshirtday .

For more information, 

Visit:

• Multicultural Center | The Ohio State University
• Orange Shirt Day
• National Native American Boarding School Healing Coalition
• "American Indian Boarding Schools: An Exploration of Global Ethnic & Cultural Cleansing; A Supplementary Curriculum Guide" (PDF)
• Ziibiwing Center of Anishinabe Culture & Lifeways, 2011.
• Carlisle Indian School Digital Resource Center
• Student Files
• Images
• Publications
• Lists & Rosters
• Collections
• Websites
• Carlisle Indian School Students Database
• Gettysburg College
• Home From School | Vision Maker Media
• "Day Set to Honor Native American Boarding School Victims."
• Attiyya Toure, The Lantern, September 27, 2018.
• Death by Boarding School: "The Last Acceptable Racism" and the United States' Genocide of Native Americans" (PDF)
• Ann Piccard, Gonzaga Law Review, Vol. 49. 2013.
• "Let All That is Indian Within You Die!" (PDF)
• Native American Rights Fund Legal Review. Volume 38, Number 2. Summer/Fall 2013.
• "Survivors of Indian boarding schools tell their stories"
• WKAR PBS, January 11, 2012.
• "American Indian Boarding Schools Haunt Many"
• NPR, May 19, 2008.
• 'Bring Them Home': Rosebud Sioux Seeking Return of Relatives Buried at Carlisle Indian Industrial School
• February 18, 2016.
• Survival and Change: The Significance of Contemporary American Indian Art
• February 26, 2015.

Grappling with the Land Grant Truth | Inspire Podcast

 

August 18, 2021

Inspire Podcast | The College of Education & Human Ecology

The motivation for change comes in strange and unsettling ways. In this podcast series, faculty and alumni at Ohio State’s College of Education and Human Ecology tell how they discovered their calling, sometimes against incredible odds.

'Ohio State Professor Stephen Gavazzi learned a painful truth about Land Grant Universities-just after his book on the subject went to press. Now he's working with a team of Ohio State faculty to find a path to healing harm done to indigenous nations when they lost lands to fund the university through the Morrill Act of 1862.' 

Inspire podcast episode link.

-Transcript

Featuring interviews with Tristan Ahtone, John Low, Jacquelyn Meshelemiah, and Steve Gavazzi. Name drops included our work with First Nations Development Institute and the scholarship of Robert Lee.

For more information, 

Visit:

• The Ohio State University
• Stepping Out & Stepping Up Racial Justice Project Blog
• "Stepping Out & Stepping Up: Towards Truth & Reconcilliation with Dispossessed Native American Tribes" -Stephen M. Gavazzi and Brian Snyder. December 17, 2020.
• Humanities Collaboratory
• Upcoming webinar: Land-Grab Universities: Owning the Truth and Sharing the Path to Making Amends 
• October 6, 2021 12-2PM EST. 
• The two lead authors of High Country News’ Land-Grab Universities Report: Tristan Ahtone and Bobby Lee will discuss their ground-breaking account of how the Morrill Act was funded through the seizure and sale of Native lands, with ongoing legacies in endowment funds and Indigenous dispossession.
  Co-sponsors include the First Nations Development Institute, the Native American and Indigenous Studies Association, as well as the editors of the Native American and Indigenous Studies journal."
• ADDITIONAL SPEAKERS: Tsianina Lomawaima (Arizona State U) & Kelly McDonough (U of Texas): Co-Editors of the Native American and Indigenous Studies Special Issue on Land-Grab Universities; Theresa Ambo (UC San Diego): The Complicity and Complacency of Land-Grant Universities; and Michael Roberts (First Nations Development Institute): Connecting Universities with Leaders of Tribes Whose Land was Taken and Sold to Fund Land-Grant Institutions
• Zoom Registration Link.
• If you require an accommodation such as live captioning or interpretation to participate in this event, or other accommodations, please contact the Humanities Institute.
• Initiative for Food and AgriCultural Transformation (InFACT)
• "InFACT and Partners to Pursue Racial Justice with First Nations Tribes." December 2020.
• Newark Earthworks Center
• Research
• Senator Morrill Act of 1862
• First Nations Development Institute
• High Country News | Land-Grab Universities
• Land-Grab Universities Report
• GitHub Repository for the HCN investigation, "Land-Grab Universities" including the "Morrill Act of 1862 Indigenous Land Parcels Database."
• Note: Control+F or Command+F on a Mac will bring up a search box which you can use to search for specific text within the data.
• "Stepping Out & Stepping Up: Towards Truth & Reconciliation with Dispossessed Native American Tribes" Stephen M. Gavazzi and Brian Snyder. December 17, 2020.
• "Intervention: Indigenous Studies Reflections on The Land-Grab Universities Project"Native American and Indigenous Studies Journal. Vol 8, No 1, Spring 2021. | JSTOR [OSU login required; also available with OSU login on Gale Academic OneFile: 2014 to present]
• "Editors' Introduction: Reflections on the Land-Grab Universities Project." (pg. 89-91) K. Tsianina Lomawaima, Kelly Mcdonough, Jean M. O'Brien and Robert Warrior.
• "Morrill Issues and Academic Liberalism" (pg. 92-96) David R. Roediger.
• "The Wealth of Knowledge: Land-Grab Universities in a British Imperial and Global Context." (pg. 97-105) Caitlin P.A. Harvey.
• " "Drawing a Line from their Institution": One Origin Story of Indigenous GIS Design." (pg 106-111) Mark Palmer.
• " "Unrefutable Responsibility": Mapping the Seeds of Settler Futurity and Seeding the Maps of Indigenous Futurity." (pg. 112-122) Marcel Brousseau.
• "Stolen Lands and Stolen Opportunities." (pg. 123-128) Randall Akee.
• "Repaying a Debt? The Performance of Morrill Act University Beneficiaries as Measured by Native Enrollment and Graduation Rates." (pg. 129-138) Donna Feir and Maggie E.C. Jones.
• "Myths, Erasure, and Violence: The Immoral Triad of the Morrill Act." (pg. 139-144) Bryan McKinley Jones Brayboy and Amanda R. Tachine.
• " "We Grow the Ivy": Cornell's Claim to Indigenous Dispossession." (pg. 145-150) Judy Kertész and Angela A. Gonzales.
• "Campuses, Colonialism, and Land Grabs before Morrill" (pg. 151-156) Alyssa Mt. Pleasant and Stephen Kantrowitz.
• "Reckoning with the Original Sin of Land-Grant Universities: Remaining Land-Grant Fierce While Insisting on Contrition and Repentance." (pg. 157-161) Stephen M. Gavazzi.
• "The Future Is in the Past: How Land-Grab Universities Can Shape the Future of Higher Education." (pg. 162-168) Theresa Stewart-Ambo.
• "The Future of Land-Grab Universities." (pg. 169-175) Meredith McCoy, Roopika Risam and Jennifer Guiliano.
• "Looking Forward from Land-Grab Universities." (pg. 176-182) Tristan Ahtone and Robert Lee.
• Tribal Connections Map | U.S. Forest Service
• "designed to illustrate the relationship between lands administered by the Forest Service, Indian lands, and lands ceded to the United States as documented in the 67 maps from "Indian Land Cessions in the United States", compiled by Charles C. Royce and published as the second part of the two-part Eighteenth Annual Report of the Bureau of American Ethnology to the Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution, 1896-1897."
• Land-Grant Universities for the Future: Higher Education for the Public Good [OSU Login required, Project Muse]
• Stephen M. Gavazzi, E. Gordon Gee, C. Peter Magrath. John Hopkins Press. 2018.

Spotlight on Kewa Cartoonist Ricardo Caté

Wednesday, September 8, 2021

7 - 8 PM EST on Zoom

FREE

Register Now.

Richard Caté.

Join the Billy Ireland Cartoon Library & Museum and The Ohio State University Newark for an evening with cartoonist Ricardo Caté. Caté is the creator of the newspaper cartoon Without Reservations, which has run daily in the Sante Fe New Mexican since 2006. Without Reservations is the only Native cartoon appearing daily in a mainstream newspaper. Caté is from the Kewa Pueblo and teaches 7th and 8th grade social studies on the reservation in Santo Domingo Pueblo, New Mexico. Caté will discuss his work and career, followed by an audience Q+A.

This event is presented by the Traditional Indigenous Knowledges and the Stepping Out/ Stepping Up projects, The Billy Ireland Cartoon Library and Museum, and the Newark Earthworks Center, and made possible by a grant from the Global Arts + Humanities Discovery Themes at The Ohio State University and the Newark Earthworks Center.

For more information, 

Visit:

• Without Reservations Facebook
• Without Reservations Twitter
• Billy Ireland Cartoon Library and Museum
• Spotlight on Kewa Cartoonist Ricardo Caté
• Santa Fe New Mexican
• " 'New Mexican' cartoonist among recipients of excellence in arts award"
• August 3, 2021.
• "Coloring book to raise awareness of COVID-19 dangers for children"
• Dillon Mullan, August 16, 2020.

• Kewa Pueblo | Santo Domingo Pueblo
• A Dose of Reality about Opiods | New Mexico Human Services Department
• StoodisNM Coloring Book [PDF available]
• Ricardo Caté- Stoodis New Mexico YouTube
• Lockdown Reservation Quarantine Starring Ricardo Caté
• Adrian Wall YouTube
• "Catching Up with Ricardo Caté: A Native American Cartoonist in Demand and Making a Difference with 'Without Reservations' Comic"
• Tamara Ikenberg, Native News Online, August 12, 2020.
• "Cartoonist Without Reservations: Ricardo Caté Is One Funny Indian"
• Alex Jacobs, Indian Country Today, September 13, 2018.
• "Ricardo Caté Offers Political Cartoons Without Reservations at The Indian Pueblo Cultural Center"
• Lois Alter Mark, Forbes Magazine, April 18, 2018.