Roundtable on Indigenous Issues' is Jan. 23

The Plains Humanities Alliance's Jan. 23 Research and Region seminar, "A Roundtable on Indigenous Issues," will feature graduate students in an interdisciplinary colloquium.

Students and their topics are Wynne Summers, English, "Women Elders' Life Stories of the Omaha Tribe"; Lawrence W. Bradley, anthropology and geography, "Paleontological Resource Dispossession of the Great Sioux Nation"; and David Nesheim, history, "Domestic and Wild Fauna on the Northern Plains: The Unseen Power of a Five-Strand Fence."

The seminar begin at 2:30 p.m. at the Nebraska Union, 1400 R St. (room posted).

Next month's Research and Region seminar will feature historian Brian Dippie of the University of Victoria in British Columbia, presenting "The Contested Status of Western American Art." Dippie's talk is sponsored by the Plains Humanities Alliance, the Research Council, the Convocations Committee, the Center for Great Plains Studies, the Department of Art and Art History, and Nineteenth-Century Studies, all at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln.

Dippie's talk will begin at 2:30 p.m. Feb. 20, at the Great Plains Art Museum, 1155 Q St.

Both events are free and open to the public.

The Research and Region seminar series is a program of the Plains Humanities Alliance, based at UNL. The series is an outlet for local and visiting scholars to present their research-in-progress about the Great Plains and other plains regions to faculty, graduate students, and the interested public.

CONTACT: Deborah Eisloeffel, Plains Humanities Alliance, (402) 472-9478