Great Plains talk: “An Indian Reserve, a White Town, and the Road to Reconciliation”
2023 Stubbendieck Great Plains Distinguished Book Prize winners
4:00 pm –
5:00 pm
Center for Great Plains Studies
Target Audiences:
1155 Q St.
Lincoln NE 68588
Lincoln NE 68588
Directions: 11th and Q streets
Contact:
Katie Nieland, (402) 472-3965, knieland2@unl.edu
Legal experts Andrew Stobo Sniderman and Douglas Sanderson (Amo Binashii) will speak at the Center for Great Plains Studies on Nov. 17 at 4 p.m. about racism and reconciliation on Canada’s Great Plains.
The co-authors of “Valley of the Birdtail: An Indian Reserve, a White Town, and the Road to Reconciliation” will discuss how two neighboring communities on either side of the Birdtail River in Manitoba became separate and unequal over the 150 years of their history. This story of an Indigenous reserve and a nearby settler town reflects much of what has gone wrong in relations between Indigenous Peoples and non-Indigenous Canadians. It also offers, in the end, a measure of hope for future reconciliation both in Canada and the United States. Join the authors for a Q&A-style discussion at the Center for Great Plains Studies.
Sniderman is a writer, lawyer, and Rhodes Scholar from Montreal who has written for the New York Times, the Globe and Mail, and Maclean’s. He has also argued before the Supreme Court of Canada, served as the human rights policy advisor to the Canadian minister of foreign affairs, and worked for a judge of South Africa’s Constitutional Court. Sanderson is the Prichard Wilson Chair in Law and Public Policy at the University of Toronto Faculty of Law and has served as a senior policy advisor to Ontario’s attorney general and minister of Indigenous affairs. He is Swampy Cree, Beaver clan, of the Opaskwayak Cree Nation.
Sniderman and Sanderson’s “Valley of the Birdtail” (Harper Collins, 2022), is the winner of the 2023 Stubbendieck Great Plains Distinguished Book Prize. During the lecture, guests can enter a drawing to win one of five copies of the book. The Stubbendieck Book Prize celebrates the most outstanding work about the Great Plains during the past year, chosen by an independent group of scholars. At the event, both authors will receive a prize medallion and the $10,000 award. The award is supported annually by former Center Director Jim Stubbendieck and his wife Cheryl.
This Paul A. Olson lecture is free and open to all. Books will be available for purchase at the event.
The co-authors of “Valley of the Birdtail: An Indian Reserve, a White Town, and the Road to Reconciliation” will discuss how two neighboring communities on either side of the Birdtail River in Manitoba became separate and unequal over the 150 years of their history. This story of an Indigenous reserve and a nearby settler town reflects much of what has gone wrong in relations between Indigenous Peoples and non-Indigenous Canadians. It also offers, in the end, a measure of hope for future reconciliation both in Canada and the United States. Join the authors for a Q&A-style discussion at the Center for Great Plains Studies.
Sniderman is a writer, lawyer, and Rhodes Scholar from Montreal who has written for the New York Times, the Globe and Mail, and Maclean’s. He has also argued before the Supreme Court of Canada, served as the human rights policy advisor to the Canadian minister of foreign affairs, and worked for a judge of South Africa’s Constitutional Court. Sanderson is the Prichard Wilson Chair in Law and Public Policy at the University of Toronto Faculty of Law and has served as a senior policy advisor to Ontario’s attorney general and minister of Indigenous affairs. He is Swampy Cree, Beaver clan, of the Opaskwayak Cree Nation.
Sniderman and Sanderson’s “Valley of the Birdtail” (Harper Collins, 2022), is the winner of the 2023 Stubbendieck Great Plains Distinguished Book Prize. During the lecture, guests can enter a drawing to win one of five copies of the book. The Stubbendieck Book Prize celebrates the most outstanding work about the Great Plains during the past year, chosen by an independent group of scholars. At the event, both authors will receive a prize medallion and the $10,000 award. The award is supported annually by former Center Director Jim Stubbendieck and his wife Cheryl.
This Paul A. Olson lecture is free and open to all. Books will be available for purchase at the event.
https://www.unl.edu/plains/bookprize/bookprize.shtml
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