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CNAIR Brown Bag Series: Indigenous Methodologies - This year, CNAIR is hosting a CNAIR Brown Bag Series under the theme of Indigenous Methodologies that will be open to the CNAIR community. We hope that these Brown Bags will be an opportunity for our community to come together and learn from one another and engage in conversations around Indigenous methodologies and how scholars across fields incorporate them in their work. 

We are excited to have Dr Kelly Wisecup, Professor of English, featured for this keynote to share her work from her latest publication, Birchbark Books, Tribal Archives, & NAIS Methods!

CNAIR Brown Bag Series: Indigenous Methodologies 
Date: FRIDAY, March 3, 2023 | Time:  12PM - 1PM  | Location: Parkes Hall Room 224

Title: Birchbark Books, Tribal Archives, & NAIS Methods

This talk discusses some of my collaborations with Pokagon Band of Potawatomi archivists and language keepers to research the history of Simon Pokagon’s birchbark booklets, primarily those thought to be printed for the 1893 World’s Fair, The Red Man’s Rebuke/Greeting.  I’ll share the research I’ve done as part of an effort to produce a contemporary edition of the booklets, including evidence of the booklets’ readers and a number of makers who complicate the usual focus on Pokagon as single author, in order to open up a conversation about the possible, existing, and/or deferred relationships among Native American and Indigenous Studies methods and research methods in the humanities.

Please bring your lunch to this special guest and short discussion.

We anticipate holding this event in-person but will do our best to provide quality Zoom accommodations. 

Direct any questions to Michaela Marchi at cnair@northwestern.edu or call 847-491-4133.