Hosted by Museum of the Cherokee People, ‘Cherokees and the American Revolution’ highlights a new podcast sharing the true story of our country’s founding and how our current political moment is 250 years in the making.
Speakers:
Rebecca Nagle (Cherokee Nation)
Rebecca Nagle is an award-winning advocate and writer focused on advancing Native rights and ending violence against Native women. Nagle is a citizen of Cherokee Nation and a two spirit/queer woman. Nagle is the host of the podcast This Land focused on treaty rights and tribal sovereignty in Oklahoma.
Her writing about Native representation and tribal sovereignty has been featured in the Washington Post, USA Today, Teen Vogue, the Huffington Post, and more. In 2016, Nagle was named one of the National Center American Indian Enterprise Development’s Native American 40 Under 40 for her work to support survivors and advocate for policy change to address the crisis of violence against Native women.
Nagle lives in Tahlequah, Oklahoma, where she works for her tribe on language revitalization.
Maggie Blackhawk (Fond du Lac Band of Lake Superior Ojibwe)
Maggie Blackhawk is professor of law at NYU and a prize-winning scholar and teacher of federal Indian law, constitutional law, and legislation. Blackhawk was awarded the American Society for Legal History’s William Nelson Cromwell Article Prize and her research has been published or is forthcoming in the Harvard Law Review, Stanford Law Review, Yale Law Journal, Supreme Court Review, American Historical Review, Legislative Studies Quarterly, Journal of the Early Republic, and Journal of Politics.
Brandon Dillard (Cherokee Nation)
Brandon Dillard is Director of Historic Interpretation and Audience Engagement at Monticello, the historic plantation of Thomas Jefferson in Virginia. Brandon comes from a long line of southern American storytellers. He is an enrolled citizen of the Cherokee Nation and has spent most of his life thinking about public memory and identity. At Monticello, he leads interpretation efforts and works on exhibits, programs, and training.
An interdisciplinary scholar with degrees in philosophy and anthropology, he is currently a Royster Fellow at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, where he is working towards a PhD in American Studies.
C. Joseph Genetin-Pilawa
C. Joseph Genetin-Pilawa is an associate professor of history at George Mason University. His first book, Crooked Paths to Allotment: The Fight Over Federal Indian Policy after the Civil War, was published by the University of North Carolina Press as part of the First Peoples: New Directions in Indigenous Studies initiative. Currently, his work has focused more directly on public history, first as a subject matter expert for an exhibit on the 1865 Treaty Council at historic Fort Smith, and now as lead exhibit consultant for a special exhibit on Native delegations to Congress in the U.S. Capitol Building (with the Architect of the Capitol).
He’s held fellowships at the Kluge Center in the Library of Congress the National Museum of the American Indian, the Newberry Library, the American Philosophical Society, and the US Capitol Historical Society. He is also the co-editor of an essay collection entitled Beyond Two Worlds: Critical Conversations on Language and Power in Native North America (SUNY Press, 2014). Genetin-Pilawa was previously a co-editor of the Journal of the Gilded Age and Progressive Era; he’s published articles in Western Historical Quarterly and Journal of Women’s History.