October 4, 2018
Please join us for Tsianina Lomawaima’s talk on “Boarding School Stories as Historic Sites of Memory.”
Dr. K. Tsianina Lomawaima is a distinguished scholar of indigenous education, Center for Indian Education, and professor of justice & social inquiry in the School of Social Transformation at Arizona State University. She is a member of the American Academy of Arts & Sciences and the National Academy of Education. Dr. Lomawaima’s scholarship on the federal off-reservation boarding school system is rooted in the experiences of her father, Curtis Thorpe Carr, a survivor of Chilocco Indian Agricultural School in Oklahoma, where he was enrolled from 1927 to 1935. Many of Dr. Lomawaima’s publications have received distinguished awards including the American Educational Research Association’s (AERA’s) Outstanding Book Award for her book “To Remain an Indian”: Lessons for Democracy from a Century for Native American Education. Dr. Lomawaima’s scholarly contributions have also been honored with AERA’s North American Indian Prose Award and the American Educational Association (AEA) Critic’s Choice Award. For further information, please contact Meta Bowman.
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- Time: 7:00 pm - 8:00 pm
- Cost: Free