Lakota and Dakota Community Scholars Review: Our Histories are the Future

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Posted:  Nov 08, 2018 - 12:00am

The Alfonso Ortiz Center has awarded funds to UNM’s Institute for American Indian Research to support the participation of two community-based organizers and intellectuals at the 2019 American Indian Studies Association Conference it will host on UNM’s main campus.

Lewis Grassrope, Kul Wicasa, Lower Brule Sioux tribe traditional leader, and Sarah Manning, Sisseton Wahpeton Oyate journalist and educator, will be participating in a discussion of the new volume Our Histories Are the Future by Nick Estes, Kul Wicasa, Lower Brule Sioux Tribe and assistant professor in the Native American Studies Department faculty.