Lecture: "White Buffalo Woman's Granddaughter: Carrier of Traditional Knowledge"

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Date/Time:Thursday, 12 Mar 2009 at 8:00 pm
Location:Great Hall, Memorial Union
Cost:Free
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Phone:515-294-9934
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"Indigenous Knowledge in the 21st Century," Henrietta Mann, president of the newly established Cheyenne and Arapaho Tribal College, located on the campus of the Southwestern Oklahoma State University, Weatherford. The 2009 Richard Thompson Memorial Lecture.

Henrietta Mann, a member of the Cheyenne-Arapaho Tribes of Oklahoma, is a distinguished scholar whose work focuses on themes of education, traditional indigenous knowledge and western perspectives on the environment. Mann has served as the Deputy to the Assistant Secretary of Indian Affairs and as National Coordinator of the American Indian Religious Freedom Coalition. She taught for 28 years at the University of Montana, Missoula, and was the first to hold the Endowed Chair of Native American Studies at Montana State University, Bozeman. Mann was inaugurated this spring as the first president of the newly established Cheyenne and Arapaho Tribal College, located on the campus of the Southwestern Oklahoma State University, Watherford. She has been a consultant and interviewee for several television and movie productions, including Last of the Dogmen, the Discovery Channel's "How the West Was Lost" and PBS's "The West."