#  Canada Program Special Event 

 



####  calendar\_today Date and Time 

 **April 26, 2023** 

 09:00AM - 10:30AM EDT 

####  pin\_drop Location 

 **Thompson Room, Barker Center, 12 Quincy Street, Cambridge, MA**  



 

 



 

 Public Keynote Address   
  
Welcome by **Michael Szonyi**, Harvard University  
  
*At a Remove: Re-storying Earthworks in Oklahoma*   
**Chadwick Allen, University of Washington**  
  
In this paper I give a brief overview of my recently published book, *Earthworks Rising: Mound Building in Native Literature and Arts* (University of Minnesota Press, 2022), and then discuss examples of how Indigenous nations in what is now the US state of Oklahoma are reengaging—and reimagining—ancient traditions of building large-scale earthworks. How do these new mounds occupy space and organize relations in the post-Removal era? And how do they make meaning, not only for local tribal citizens and the descendants of mound-building peoples forcibly removed to Oklahoma in the nineteenth century, but also for the predominantly non-Native publics that visit these contemporary sites as tourists? Finally, how are Indigenous nations framing the interpretation of newly built mounds in Oklahoma in relation to ancient mound sites in the Southeast and other homelands?

 **Chadwick Allen** is Professor of English and Adjunct Professor of American Indian Studies at the University of Washington Seattle, where he also serves as the Associate Vice Provost for Faculty Advancement. Author of the books *Blood Narrative: Indigenous Identity in American Indian and Maori Literary and Activist Texts*, *Trans-Indigenous: Methodologies for Global Native Literary Studies*, and *Earthworks Rising: Mound Building in Native Literature and Arts*, he is a former editor of the journal *Studies in American Indian Literatures* and a past president of the Native American and Indigenous Studies Association (NAISA).



 

 



 

 

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