Dakota–U.S. War of 1862 Symposium | 2 Gwen Westerman

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Dakota–U.S. War of 1862 Symposium | 2 Gwen Westerman

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The Dakota–U.S. War of 1862: A Symposium of Remembrance examines the lasting consequences of the violent and divisive war that led to the exile of the Dakota people from their homeland. The program explores the subject from a variety of perspectives, with attention to the role of broken treaties, the effects on the community and Dakota history after the war, memory and multigenerational impacts, efforts at reconciliation and healing, and how cultural institutions address the Dakota War in partnering with the Dakota people. In this segment, Gwen Westerman speaks on "When We Don't Tell Our Own Stories: Writing Over the Dakota History of 1862." Gwen Westerman, an enrolled member of the Sisseton Wahpeton Oyate, is professor of English and director of the humanities program at Minnesota State University, Mankato, where she has been named a distinguished faculty scholar. Westerman is the co-author of "Mni Sota Makoce: The Land of the Dakota," which won a 2013 Leadership in History Award from the American Association of State and Local History and a 2014 Hognander Minnesota History Award. A visual artist and poet, she is a Native American artist-in-residence at the Minnesota Historical Society and currently has a solo exhibit titled "We Are Star People" at the Great Plains Art Museum in Lincoln, Nebraska. "Follow the Blackbirds," a collection of her poems in Dakota and English, was published in 2013. Westerman just received a Scholarly Editions and Translations Grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities to translate letters written in Dakota between 1838 and 1878. The symposium was webcast live and recorded at the Rasmuson Theater of the National Museum of the American Indian on November 19, 2015. http://nmai.si.edu/explore/exhibitions/item/?id=947

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48 min 28 sec

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