Feb 14
Margaret Huettl Talk
Treaty Stories: Ojibwe Treaty Rights and the Struggle for Sovereignty in Wisconsin
Speaker: Dr. Margaret Huettl
Location: Leighton 304
Date/Time: 6-7pm. Pizza served at 5:45pm
Talk Description: From the woods and waters of Anishinaabewaki (the Ojibwe homeland) to settler court rooms, Ojibwe Peoples have defended their sacred rights and relationships with their homeland. Beginning in the 1830s, Ojibweg negotiated a series of treaties with the United States that reduced their homeland to a dozen or so reservations. Treaties, however, were more than documents of dispossession: they embodied Ojibwe relationships with land, kin, language, sacred history, and ceremony. Since the nineteenth century, Ojibwe men and women have continuously subverted the federal and state policies designed to unravel these relationships. They kept their treaties and their sovereignty alive, risking punishment and prosecution by living out the sacred relationships with their homeland’s lakes, woods, and wild rice beds.
Speaker Bio: Margaret Huettl, Assistant Professor in History and Ethnic Studies at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln, is a scholar of Native American history and North American Wests. Her research examines Indigenous sovereignty and settler colonialism in a transnational context. Her current project, “Ojibwe Peoplehood in the North American West, 1854-1954,” explores Ojibwe or Anishinaabe sovereignty in the United States and Canada during the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, centering her research on Anishinaabe ways of knowing. Her research and teaching interests focus on Indigenous histories in North America, with a special interest in ethnohistorical methods and public history. She earned her PhD in History from the University of Nevada, Las Vegas (2016), her M.A. in Native American history from the University of Oklahoma (2010), and her B.A. from the University of Rochester (2008).
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