“COVID-19 in Indian Country: Native American Memories and Experiences of the Pandemic,” Friday, May 12, 2023, Native American and Indigenous Studies Association Conference, May 11-13, 2023, Tkaronto (Toronto).
2nd Workshop and Symposium of Indigenous Perspectives on the Meanings of “Lamanite,” April 27-29, 2023, Claremont Graduate University.
Book Talks with Author Farina King at Diné College branches of Crownpoint and Shiprock, April 13 & 14, 2023, Navajo Nation, New Mexico.
“Indigenous Truthtelling of Boarding Schools,” 50th Anniversary American Indian Symposium, April 12, 2023, Northeastern State University, Tahlequah.
2nd Mapping Tahlequah History Workshop, April 10, 2023, Northeastern State University, Tahlequah.
“Coming to a Crossroads: Public Historians, Identities and Statewide Mythologies,” 2023 Organization of American Historians Conference, April 1, 2023, Los Angeles. [Images of Devin V. Hunter, Farina King, and Shine Trabucco at the OAH 2023 conference]
Oklahoma Native American Youth Language Fair, April 3, 2023, Sam Noble Museum, University of Oklahoma.
“Voices of Diné Boarding School Survivors” (invited presentation) for “Native Boarding Schools, Historical Research, and Catholic Archives” Hybrid Conference, March 25, 2023, Tucson, Arizona.
Book Talk with Co-Authors of Returning Home, February 23, 2023, Charles M. Russell Center for the Study of Art of the American West, University of Oklahoma, Norman.
“Colonial Bordering of Indigenous Spaces,” 2023 American Indian Studies Association Conference, February 3, 2023, Arizona State University, Tempe.
BIPOC in Academia Conference, October 27-28, 2022, Brigham Young University, Provo, Utah.
“Walking Through the Fire: Indigenous Perseverance in an Epoch of Turmoil” (invited plenary speaker), 2022 Annual Meeting of the Oral History Association, October 20, 2022, Los Angeles, California.
October 12-15, 2022: Annual Western History Association Conference, San Antonio, Texas. Farina King participated in the following sessions:
- October 13: “Interpreters in Western History: Translating Peoples, Sources, and the Past” (sponsored by the Center of the American West)
- October 15: “Civil Wars and History Wars: Struggles Over Commemorating and Representing Oklahoma’s Indigenous Past”
- October 15: “Challenging the Standards of Scholarship: Alternatives to the Monograph and Single-Authored Works”
October 10, 2022: “Native Circles: Sustaining Ties to HomeLand” (invited keynote speaker), Indigenous Peoples Day, Central Library Atrium, University of Texas-Arlington.
October 5-8, 2022: 53rd Annual National Indian Education Association (NIEA) Convention & Trade Show, Oklahoma City, Oklahoma.
September 19, 2022, “Indigenizing Centers of Knowledge: A Conversation with Keetoowah Elder and Museum Director Ernestine Berry,” Native Nations Center, University of Oklahoma, Norman.
September 9-10, 2022: Intermountain Indian School Gathering, Brigham City, Utah.
August 4-6, 2022, Workshop: “Indigenous Perspectives on the Meanings of ‘Lamanite,'” University of Utah, Salt Lake City (co-organizer).
July 15-16, 2022: Southwest Oral History Association Lightning Summer Bootcamp (virtual), “Oral History Best Practices and Beyond” (organizer and presenter).
May 28-June 15, 2022: Short-Term Residency in Tokyo, Japan, Organization of American Historians-Japanese Association for American Studies Japan Historians’ Collaborative supported by the Japan–United States Friendship Commission:
The Japanese Association for American Studies Annual Meeting, June 3-5, Chuo University; and guest lectures at Sophia University, Otsuma Women’s University, and the International Peace Research Institute of Meiji Gakuin University.
May 20, 2022: “Teaching and Learning about Railroads in Indian Territory and Among the Five Tribes” (organized session and served on steering committee as program co-chair), Railroads in Native America Gathering and Symposium, Ogden, Utah.
April 21, 2022: “Indigenous Boarding Schools and Their Legacy in Indigenous Families and Communities” (invited virtual conversation), Vermont Law School.
April 14-15, 2022: “Interpreters in Western History” Symposium, Miami University, Oxford, Ohio.
April 4-9, 2022: American Indian Symposium, Center for Tribal Studies, Northeastern State University, Tahlequah, Oklahoma. April 7, 2022: “Teaching and Learning about Railroads in Indian Territory” (session organizer and moderator).
April 4, 2022: Mapping Tahlequah History Workshop, Northeastern State University, Tahlequah, Oklahoma.
April 1-3, 2022: Southwest Oral History Association Annual Conference, University of Nevada, Las Vegas.
March 31, 2022: “Historicizing COVID-19 in Navajo Nation” (roundtable organizer), Organization of American Historians Annual Meeting, Boston.
March 29, 2022: Kansas Open Books/Kansas Indigenous History webinar.
March 26, 2022: Diné Women in Medicine and Healing Through Generations (virtual talk), Museum of Native American History, Bentonville, Arkansas.
March 16, 2022: Book Talk about Returning Home with the Fayetteville Public Library, Arkansas.
March 9, 2022: Book Talk about Returning Home (in-person and virtual), John Vaughan Library room 105, Northeastern State University, Tahlequah.
March 4, 2022: Conversation with students about Diné boarding school experiences and “Returning Home,” Window Rock High School, Navajo Nation.
March 3, 2022: Class presentations, educator professional development, and public book talk about “Returning Home,” Rehoboth Christian School, New Mexico.
February 11, 2022: American Religion and Native American Boarding Schools (invited panelist for webinar), National Museum of American Religion.
February 10, 2022: Virtual Talk about Dził ya’ ołta’ (“The School Inside the Mountain”) and “Returning Home: Diné Creative Works from the Intermountain Indian School,” Crow Canyon Archaeological Center, Cortez, Colorado.
February 8, 2022: Virtual Book Talk about Returning Home with the Labriola National American Indian Data Center, Arizona State University Library.
February 4, 2022: Book Talk Returning Home: Diné Creative Works from the Intermountain Indian School, Maricopa Community Colleges and Phoenix Indian Center respectively.
January 6, 2022: “Teaching Indigenous History and Literacy with Primary Sources,” American Historical Association Annual Meeting, New Orleans.
December 13, 2021: “Native American Heritage Month and Beyond” (invited virtual talk), Haas Hall Academy, Fayetteville, Arkansas.
November 30, 2021: “Returning Home: Diné Creative Works from the Intermountain Indian School” Book Talk with Authors Farina King, Michael Taylor, and James Swensen, Diné Studies Book Talk Series (the recording of the book talk is available on the Diné Studies Facebook page).
November 18-20, 2021: Skills Repurposing Weekend at the Center of the American West, University of Colorado, Boulder.
November 10, 2021, Panel on Native American Perspectives of Statues and Monuments, Northeastern State University, Tahlequah, Oklahoma.
November 4-5, 2021, BIPOC in Academia Conference, Brigham Young University, Provo, Utah.
October 27-30, 2021, “To the West and Beyond: The Local and the Global in Western History,” 61st Annual Western History Association Conference, Portland, Oregon. Dr. Farina King is part of the following sessions:
Thursday, October 28, “The State of University Publishing in 2021”
Friday, October 29, “Assessing the Career of Historian Thomas Alexander”: “Thomas Alexander and Native American History and Future Scholarship”
Saturday, October 30, “New Directions in Termination History: Policy, Activism, and Indigenous Perseverance in the American West”: “Challenging a Termination-Era Boarding School”
“This Land is Herland” presentation about chapter of “Loyal Countrywomen,” Oklahoma Scholar-Leadership Enrichment Program (OSLEP) seminar (guest speaker), University of Oklahoma, October 23, 2021.
“Mapping Tahlequah History,” North American Cartographic Information Society Annual Meeting (NACIS), Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, October 2021.
“Boarding Schools, Historical Trauma, and Indigenous Resilience” (virtual), UTEP and EPCC Student Leadership and Campus Life, October 2021.
“Moving Stories,” 2021 Oral History Association Annual Meeting (Virtual), October 11-14, 2021; The Southwest Oral History Association (SOHA) was one of the OHA 2021 conference sponsors, and SOHA celebrated its 40th Anniversary.
King was part of the following SOHA at OHA 2021 sessions:
“Southwest Oral History Association: Reaction from the Summer Bootcamp”
“Knowledge is not a Right; It’s a Privilege: Traversing the Fine Lines of Indigenous Oral History”
“SOHA at 40: Past Presidents and S’mores Remembering”
“Reorienting Family History: Indigenous and Oral Society Perspectives”
“Native American Communities and Reflections on Healing and Caring of a Medicine Man with Dr. Phil Smith,” 2021 Native American Cultural Celebration, Museum of Native American History, Bentonville, Arkansas, October 9, 2021.
“Mapping Tahlequah History,” Oklahoma Council for History Education Fall Conference, University of Central Oklahoma, Edmond, Oklahoma, October 2021.
“This Land is Herland: Gendered Activism in Oklahoma Session 1,” Sixth Annual Gender and Sexuality Studies Conference, University of Central Oklahoma, October 2021.
“Historical Injustices of Indian Boarding Schools: A Dialogue with Dr. Farina King and Dr. Davina Two Bears,” Native American Educational and Cultural Center, Purdue University, September 2021.
Roundtable: “The BYU Slavery Project: Student-Centered Research and the Work of Anti-Racism in History Education,” Symposium on Slavery and Dispossession, Emory University, September 2021.
“Historicizing COVID-19 in Navajo Nation,” “Public Health and the Common Good” themed 69th Annual Utah State Historical Society Conference (virtual), September 20, 2021.
“Intermountain Memories” Panel, Utah State University-Brigham City campus, September 11, 2021.
“Returning Home Intermountain,” brown bag talk, Utah State University, Logan, September 10, 2021.
This Land is Herland book event with Magic City Books, Tulsa, Oklahoma, September 8, 2021.
“Mapping Tahlequah History,” NSU Community and Collaboration Day, Tahlequah, Oklahoma, August 18, 2021.
Roundtable: “(Re)Centering Pedagogies and Perspectives in Teaching History With Indigenous and Diverse Community Voices,” Pacific Coast Branch of the American Historical Association Annual Conference (virtual), August 12, 2021.
Summer Oral History Bootcamp (virtual), Southwest Oral History Association, June 14-18, 2021.
“Evolving Views on Race, Lineage, and the Status of Black People within the LDS Church” (comment), and “New Directions and Questions for American Indian and Mormon Histories” (roundtable), Mormon History Association Annual Conference, Park City, Utah, June 2021 (visit https://mormonhistoryassociation.org/).
“Loyal Countrywomen: Insights from Two Cherokee National Female Seminary Alumnae Doctors” (keynote invited speaker), 170th Meeting of the Descendants of the Cherokee Seminarians, Northeastern State University, May 7, 2021.
“Boarding School Histories & Tuition Waiver,” Day of Dialogue (virtual symposium), Fort Lewis College, April 20, 2021.
“Service-Learning and Practicing Oral History with Diné and Cherokee Communities,” American Indian Symposium (virtual), Northeastern State University, April 14, 2021.
“Diné Stories of Disease and Healing Through Generations to the COVID-19 Pandemic” (invited panelist), “Identities, Rights, Histories: An Indigenous Studies Seminar,” The John Morton Center for North American Studies, University of Turku, March 29, 2021.
“Unerasing Memory: Collaborative Research, Activism, Teaching, and Storytelling as Pathways for Indigenous Equity and Empowerment,” 2021 National Council on Public History Annual Meeting (Virtual), March 27, 2021.
“Dr. Isabel Cobb Serving Cherokee Health,” Southern Illinois University, March 24, 2021.
“Lamanite as a Religious Signifier and Settler-Colonial Encounter,” Mormon Studies at the University of Virginia, March 11, 2021.
“Reflections on Statehood,” Thrive125 Series, Utah Department of Heritage & Arts and Utah State History, March 3, 2021.
“Patriarchal Colonialism and its Impact on Matrilineal and Patrilineal Indigenous Social Systems,” with Jasha Lyons Echo-Hawk, Dr. Farina King, and Matti Martin, Indigenous Leadership Summit, Center for Tribal Studies, Northeastern State University, February 26, 2021.
“Refocusing on Indigenous History in Schools,” NSU HawkTalks, January 27, 2021.
“Settler Colonialism and American Religion” (panel chair and commentator), American Historical Association virtual conference series, January 6, 2021.
“A Diné Family’s Intergenerational Histories of Disease and Healing From the Long Walk to COVID-19,” guest virtual lecture for Meiji Gakuin University, Japan, December 14, 2020.
“A Conversation with Edouardo Zendejas, J.D.: Native Images and Struggles Over Representations,” Northeastern State University, November 17, 2020.
“Reshaping Educational Landscapes: Everyday Native Women Influencing Schools and Society,” History of Education Society Virtual Conference, November 6, 2020.
“COVID-19 Collections,” Oral History Happy Hour (virtual), South Phoenix Oral History Project and Southwest Oral History Association, November 5, 2020.
Mapping Tahlequah History Workshop, Northeastern State University, October 28, 2020.
Keynote on “Diné Doctor History” and Roundtable about “Recovery and Resistance,” Little Berks 2020, Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, 12 pm EST-5 pm EST, October 24, 2020.
“Individual Lives and National Movements: A Roundtable on Women’s Activism in the American West”; and “Central to the Periphery: Historical Experiences of Mormon Women of Color,” Western History Association 2020 Virtual Conference, October 14-17, 2020.
“Four Directions. One Earth. Mission United,” Virtual Event, The Museum of Native American History, Bentonville, Arkansas, October 1 -3, 2020.
2020 Southwest Oral History Association Virtual Conference, September 11-13, 2020. Learn more at the SOHA News Blog.
“The Fluidity of Power,” This Land is Herland, a series of programs on women’s activism in Oklahoma, The Oklahoma Historical Society and the Cherokee Strip Regional Heritage Center, August 13, 2020. This program considers how women in early Oklahoma found ways to wield power. Topics and speakers for the evening were: “An ‘Intrepid Pioneer Leader’: The A-Suffrage Gendered Activism of Kate Barnard,” by Dr. Sunu Kodumthara, Southwestern Oklahoma State University; “‘My Heart Had Been Burdened for the Orphaned and Homeless Children’: Religious Imperative and Maternalism in the Work of Mattie Mallory,” by Dr. Heather Clemmer, Southern Nazarene University; and “A ‘Loyal Countrywoman’: Rachel Caroline Eaton, Alumna of the Cherokee National Female Seminary,” by Dr. Farina King, Northeastern State University.
“Global Event: Native American Women Historical Trailblazers,” Girl Scouts, Diamonds of Arkansas, Oklahoma, and Texas, August 9, 2020.
State of the Field Discussion: “Race in Mormon History,” Mormon History Association 2020 Digital Conference, June 2020.
Storytime at the Museum, Museum of Native American History, Bentonville, Arkansas, March 14, 2020.
Return Home Intermountain exhibit closing reception and event, Navajo Nation Museum, March 6, 2020.
2020 Phi Alpha Theta/Oklahoma Association of Professional Historians Conference, Norman, February 28-29, 2020.
“A ‘Loyal Countrywoman’: Rachel Caroline Eaton, Alumna of the Cherokee National Female Seminary,” Works-In-Progress Seminar (invited presenter), December 6, 2019, Helmerich Center for American Research and Gilcrease Museum, Tulsa, Oklahoma.
“Including Indigenous Voices in the Classroom with Primary Sources,” November 23, 2019, 2019 National Council for the Social Studies, Austin Convention Center, Austin, Texas.
Oral History Association Annual Conference with the Southwest Oral History Association, “Pathways in the Field: Considerations for those Working In, On, and Around Oral History,” October 16-19, 2019, Salt Lake City, Utah.
“LDS Native American Perspectives on Columbus,” October 16, 2019, Brigham Young University, Provo, Utah.
“Service Learning: Benefiting Students and Native Nations,” Wednesday, October 9, 2019, International Conference of Indigenous Archives, Libraries, and Museums, Pechanga Casino & Resort, Temecula, California.
“Mormonism and Empire: Latter-day Saint Religion and Culture in a Global Context” (invited panelist), October 3, 2019, Claremont Graduate University.
“Paving the Way: Green Country’s Cultural & Historical Preservation Initiative 2019,” September 28, 2019, Northeastern State University, Tahlequah, Oklahoma.
“Assimilationist Education, Race, and American Indian Family in the Twentieth-Century United States” (panel), 2019 Meeting of the American Society for Ethnohistory, September 26, 2019, State College, Pennsylvania.
54th Conference of the Mormon History Association, “Isolation and Integration,” June 6-9, 2019, Salt Lake City, Utah. Donate to the MHA Graduate Student and International Scholar Fund through the MHA website.
“Roundtable: Indigenous and ‘Lamanite’ Identities in the Twentieth Century,” June 7, 2019, MHA, Salt Lake City.
“Returning Home: The Art and Poetry of Intermountain Indian School, 1951-1984” public presentation with Farina King and Michael Taylor, Tse’bii’nidzisgai Elementary School, May 17, 2019, Monument Valley, Utah.
“Learning My Heritage Language as a Scholar: Connecting with Community through Diné Bizaad” (invited keynote talk), April 13, 2019, Visions Conference, Northeastern State University.
47th Annual Symposium on the American Indian, “Celebrating Indigenous Women,” April 8-13, 2019, Center for Tribal Studies, Northeastern State University, Tahlequah, Oklahoma:
“Working with the ‘Missing Pieces’ John Hair Cultural Center and Museum Exhibit Design,” Wednesday, April 10, 2-2:50 pm, UC 223, Farina King with Ernestine Berry and NSU Student Presenters Midge Dellinger, Lindsey Chapman, Dillon Morris, and Larry Carney.
“Generations of Women Healers: Reflections from a Life Career in American Indian Health,” Friday, April 12, 1-1:50 pm, UC 224, with Phillip L. Smith.
“Indigenous Women at Texas Christian University: Presence, Absence, and Portrayal,” Friday, April 12, 3-3:50 pm, UC 222, with Scott Langston, Shara Kanerahtiiostha Francis-Herne, Farina King, Theresa Gaul, and Jessica Martinez.
Region 6 Oklahoma National History Day Competition, April 2, 2019, Northeastern State University, Tahlequah, Oklahoma.
“Finding Yourself in Academia: A Diné Historian’s Experience,” Distinguished Guest Speaker Invitation, University of Iowa Graduate History Society, March 29, 2019, Iowa City.
“Exploring Silences of Family History: My Diné and New Mexican Ancestors,” invited talk for the Indian Territory Genealogical and Historical Society, 7 pm, March 25, 2019, John Vaughan Library, Northeastern State University, Tahlequah, Oklahoma.
The Earth Memory Compass Book Talk, March 7, 2019, University of Central Oklahoma, Edmond.
Oklahoma Regional Conference of Phi Alpha Theta and Oklahoma Association of Professional Historians, March 8-9, 2019, Cameron University, Lawton.
“Doctrine of Discovery Repudiated- Now What?” Winter Talk 2019 conference sponsored by Yakama Christian Mission, February 25-27, 2019, Phillips Theological Seminary, Tulsa.
Roundtable on “Learning Indigenous Sovereignty Through Lands and Waters,” 20th Annual American Indian Studies Association Conference, “The Knowledge of Our Ancestors, the Strength of Our Communities,” February 8, 2019, University of New Mexico, Albuquerque.
February 6, 2019, “Crownpoint Boarding School Through Diné Generations,” People & Places Monthly Lectures, Center for Southwest Research and Special Collections, University of New Mexico, Albuquerque.
From #NewBooksNetwork #EarthMemoryCompass:
The Earth Memory Compass: Diné Landscapes and Education in the Twentieth Century (University Press of Kansas 2018)
January 25, 2019, New Books Network Podcast (click hyperlink to access) with Farina King by Stephen Hausmann
“When the young Diné boy Hopi-Hopi ran away from the Santa Fe Indian Boarding School in the early years of the twentieth century, he carried with him no paper map to guide his way home. Rather, he used knowledge of the region, of the stars, and of the Southwest’s ecology instilled in him from before infancy to help navigate over rivers, through mountains, and across deserts. In The Earth Memory Compass: Diné Landscapes and Education in the Twentieth Century (University of Kansas Press, 2018), Farina King argues that education and the creation of ‘thick’ cultural knowledge played, and continues to play, a central role in the survival of Diné culture. King, Assistant Professor of History at Northeastern State University in Tahlequah, Oklahoma, takes a unique methodological approach in telling the story of Diné education and knowledge. The Earth Memory Compass is, in King’s words, an ‘autoethnography,’ weaving her personal story of cultural discovery and family history into a larger narrative of Indigenous boarding school experiences and deep learning within families and other sites of indigenous education. The book tracks four of the six sacred directions in Diné culture, East, South, West, and North, each connected with a sacred mountain in the Southwest, and in doing so tells a rich and complicated history of how the Diné people resisted and sometimes embraced American education while never losing their own much older forms of knowledge in the process.”
January 6, 2019, Roundtable on “Everything You Wanted to Know about Community Engagement (But Were Afraid to Ask),” American Historical Association annual meeting, Chicago.
January 3, 2019, “Diné dóó Gáamalii (Navajo and Mormon): Exploring Autoethnography,” American Society of Church History, Chicago.
November 10, 2018, Session on “Institutionalizing Emergency: Boarding Schools and the Crises of Colonialism,” conference theme “States of Emergence,” American Studies Association annual meeting, Atlanta.
November 2, 2018, Session on “Remembering and Memorializing American Indian Education,” The History of Education Society annual meeting, Hotel Albuquerque, Albuquerque, New Mexico.
October 27, 2018, Session on “Understanding Intergenerational Trauma for Indigenous Communities,” 21st Diné Studies Conference theme of “150 Years Later: Acting and Advocating to Empower Our Own Researchers and Healers and Visionaries and Thinkers and Planners and Leaders and Scientists and… Neeznádiin dóo’ąą ashdladiin nááhaigo: Nihidine’é nida’ałkaahígíí, nahałáhí, dahaniihii dóó nitsékeesii dóó naha’áii dóó éé’deitįįhii, doozhóódgóó ba’ahódlí dóó ílį́įgo hiilna’,” Diné College, Tsaile, Arizona.
October 19, 2018, Session on “Indigenizing Cityscapes since the Twentieth Century,” Conference theme of “Re-imagining Race and Ethnicity in the West,” Western History Association annual meeting, San Antonio, Texas.
October 10-12, 2018, Conference theme of “Oral History in Our Challenging Times,” Oral History Association annual meeting, Concordia University, Montreal, Quebec, Canada.
October 9, 2018, Breakfast Conversation, Dartmouth College.
October 2, 2018, Session on “Contemporary Topics and Methods of American Indian Boarding School Studies,” The Spirit Survives: A National Movement toward Healing, NABS National Conference, Carlisle, Pennsylvania.
September 28, 2018, Intertribal Discussion about Belonging and Identity, University of Texas, Arlington with Native American Student Association.
June 14, 2018, “Returning Home: Intermountain Indian School Stories,” Inaugural BYU Indigenous Studies Learning Group public talk, Provo, Utah.
June 7-10, 2018, “Homelands and Bordered Lands,” Mormon History Association annual meeting, Boise, Idaho. Donate to the MHA International Scholar Fund through the MHA website.
King helped to organize the following accepted MHA 2018 panels:
- Roundtable: “Indigenous/Scholars of Color Speak to the History of the ‘Other’ in Mormon Studies”
- “Before and After the Official Declaration 2”
- “Currents in Indigenous Mormonism: Where have we been? Where are we now? Where are we going?”
- “Beyond a Single Mormon Story: Histories of Culture and Race in International Mormonisms”
- “Entangled Histories of Mormons and Native Americans from the Nineteenth Century to Early Twentieth Century”
May 19, 2018, American Indian Achievement Celebration, Grand Prairie Independent School District, Texas.
Thursday, May 17, 2018, “Native Women Indigenizing Dallas Since the Late Twentieth Century,” Native American and Indigenous Studies Association annual meeting, Los Angeles.
April 27-29, 2018, “Elevating Voices: Oral Histories of Resilience and Unity,” Southwest Oral History Association annual meeting, Fullerton, California.
King served as SOHA 2018 conference program committee co-chair and helped to organize the following sessions:
- Plenary Session: “Developing Indigenous Community and Home-Based Oral Histories”
- Panel: “Un-Erasing Voices of Ethnic Communities in the U.S.-Mexico Borderlands”
April 16-21, 2018, “Walking With Our Ancestors: Preserving Culture and Honoring Tradition,” 46th Annual Symposium on the American Indian, Northeastern State University, Tahlequah, Oklahoma.
King participated in the following sessions that she organized for the symposium:
- “Horse and Buffalo People in Native America”
- “Mapping Histories of Indian Education”
View the recording of this HawkTalk (April 2018) by clicking this link: Student Stories of Intermountain Indian School.
Top of Mind with Julie Rose, April 13, 2018:
Native American Perspectives on Land
Guests: Farina King, PhD, Assistant Professor of History, Northeastern State University; Nizhone Meza, JD, Attorney; Tommy Rock, PhD, Environmental Scientist and Founder of Rock Environmental Consulting; Aldean Ketchum, Musician, Flute Builder
Mother Earth’s sacred nature is a common thread through the spiritual beliefs of Native American tribes across the country. We saw reverence for the land unite diverse indigenous communities at the Dakota Access Pipeline protests and in the effort to preserve Bears Ears in Utah. We explore what it is that so deeply binds America’s original inhabitants to the land.
For more about the panel, “Bears Ears: Indigenous Perspectives from San Juan,” please see this blog piece on the Juvenile Instructor (click on hyperlink).
March 2-3, 2018, Oklahoma Association of Professional Historians and the Oklahoma Regional Conference of Phi Alpha Theta, University of Central Oklahoma, Edmond, Oklahoma.
“Indigenous Oral Histories in Dallas Inspired by #NoDAPL and Water Is Life Coalition Building,” January 4, 2018, American Historical Association, Washington, D.C.
Top of Mind with Julie Rose on BYU Radio, December 18, 2017:
The Politics of Monuments and Native American History
Guest: Farina King, PhD, Assistant Professor, History, Northeastern State University and member of the Navajo Nation
“Monuments of all sorts are a focal point for debate in America today: whether it’s Confederate War memorials, statues of conquering explorers like Columbus or natural landscapes like the Bears Ears National Monument President Trump recently scaled back significantly.
A monument is really about us saying ‘this is a place, a memory, a culture, a history we want to preserve.’ But given the diversity of views and complexity of America’s history, is it any wonder we’re having trouble agreeing on our monuments? Let’s have a look at this from the perspective of America’s indigenous communities.”
Indian Mascot Cases panel before showing of Kenn and John Little’s film “More Than a Word,” November 17, 2017, American Indian Heritage Month, Northeastern State University, Tahlequah, Oklahoma. See the full listing of NSU American Indian Heritage Month events on the Center for Tribal Studies website.
“Connecting the Generations: Indigenous Women Standing for their People and Communities,” November 3, 2017, Western History Association Conference, San Diego.
Please watch and share the “Navajo Voices on Bears Ears” panel recording (click on the highlighted link to the YouTube channel of the University of Utah S.J. Quinney College of Law).
“Learning and Teaching Women’s Historical Experiences at Northeastern State University,” September 28, 2017, International Gender and Sexuality Studies Conference, Oklahoma City, Oklahoma.
This is a video recording of the September 26th panel on “Why the Indian Mascot Issue Matters”:
See a clip of the “Water is Life” Panel from September 1 through the Tribal Film Festival Facebook Page.
Farina King, Ph.D. 