February 8, 2024 Margaret Jacobs

Evening Lecture
In Search of Reconciliation on America’s Stolen Lands

Margaret Jacobs, University of Nebraska-Lincoln

6 PM lecture followed by Q&A and book-signing
The Texana Room, Fondren Library, 6404 Robert S. Hyer Lane, SMU

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Just beneath the stormy surface of our divisive times, a quiet but powerful counter current flows. Many Americans long to face up to the painful truths of how settlers violently dispossessed Indigenous people. They have a hunger for healing and reconciliation and are taking part in a rising social movement to reckon with and make amends for our haunted past. Professor Jacobs provides insights on how settlers and Indigenous people are working together to confront and overcome the legacies of colonialism and co-create new relationships of respect and reciprocity. This talk is based on Jacob's latest work, After One Hundred Winters: In Search of Reconciliation on America's Stolen Lands (Princeton, 2021) 

Margaret Jacobs is the Charles Mach Professor of History at the University of Nebraska and the Director of the Center for Great Plains Studies. She received her PhD from the University of California - Davis.  Her research interests include colonialism and decolonizaiton, Indigenous Peoples, Native Americans, the North American West, and Women's History.