Mar 12 2020

Apsáalooke Women and Warriors

March 12, 2020

1:00 PM - 2:30 PM

Address

803 S. Morgan St., Chicago, IL 60607

Cost

Free

Poster image of the Zona Abierta program

Zona Abierta: Apsáalooke Women and Warriors

Presented by the UIC Latino Cultural Center, the Native American Support Program, and the Women's Leadership & Resource Center

As part of UIC's Women's History Month Celebration, join us for a conversation with scholars and artists from the great Apsáalooke Crow Nation—as they share their Native perspectives—and talk about Apsáalooke ways, people, and their work.

  • Apsáalooke Women and Warriors exhibition is jointly organized by the Field Museum and the Neubauer Collegium for Culture and Society at the University of Chicago, opening at both sites in March 2020.

Panelists | Apsáalooke Scholars & Artists

  • JoRee LaFrance is currently is a PhD student at the University of Arizona’s Department of Environmental Science; 2020 recipient of the Climate Assessment for the Southwest (CLIMAS) Environment & Society Graduate Fellows Program.
  • Luella Brien is an Apsáalooke journalist who also runs the Big Horn County News.
  • Rusty LaFrance is an Apsáalooke historian and linguist; and reporter and writer for the Big Horn County News.
  • KamiJo Whiteclay is an Apsáalooke artist attending the Institute of American Indian Arts.

FREE refreshments and admission

Co-sponsored by the UIC Department of Anthropology

For more info, please call the number below.

All audiences are welcome to join us at this program. Space is wheelchair accessible. For accommodations contact the number above 5 business days before the program.

Contact

Mario Lucero

Date posted

Feb 24, 2020

Date updated

Apr 14, 2020