Native American Heritage Month

Kansas author Laurie Dove discusses her debut book and the high rate of crime against members of Native communities. The novel follows Carrie Starr, who accepts a job as the tribal marshal on the fictional Oklahoma reservation where her father grew up, and investigates the disappearance of a local college student.

Stephen Aron, director of the Autry Museum of the American West in Los Angeles, discusses how to talk about the forcible removal of Native Americans from their lands in the U.S. and efforts to redress the losses. Aron also explores how returning items from museum collections to Native communities can start the healing...

Blending tradition and history with commentary and aesthetics, the exhibition Going Home is at turns political, personal, satirical, and poignant. Artists Mona Cliff and Tom Farris join Kansas City-based painter David Titterington for a conversation about their work, inspirations, backgrounds, and careers in the contex...

Indigenous artists featured in the Library exhibition The Heart Is a Fist talk about their inspirations and techniques in a panel discussion moderated by Kreshaun McKinney, the Kemper Museum of Contemporary Art’s director of learning and engagement. The program and exhibition are part of the Library’s Big Read 2022....

Rep. Sharice Davis, in her second precedent-setting term in the U.S. House from Kansas’ 3rd District, discusses her new picture-book autobiography with her co-writer, Nancy K. Mays, and illustrator, Ojibwe Woodland-style artist Joshua Mangeshig Pawis-Steckley. &...

Pay attention, scientists say. The deadly winter storm that pummeled Texas last month is the latest warning on the impact of climate change.   In an online discussion of his book Red Alert!, Haskell Indian Nations University’s Daniel Wildcat offers an avenue of respons...