Join us for a conversation with Professor Doug Kiel (Northwestern University) and Professor Teresa Montoya (UChicago) about the Indigenous Midwest, hosted by the Land Acknowledgement Working Group at UChicago.

About our Interlocutors

Doug Kiel is a citizen of the Oneida Nation and an Assistant Professor of History and the Humanities at Northwestern University. They study Indigenous histories of the Great Lakes region, and the history of federal Indian law and policy. Kiel is completing a book entitled Unsettling Territory: Oneida Nation Resurgence and Anti-Sovereignty Backlash, and is an advisor and co-curator for the Field Museum’s new exhibition, Native Truths: Our Voices, Our Stories, which opens in May. At Northwestern, he has participated in a wide range of Indigenous initiatives on campus, including the development of the university’s Center for Native American and Indigenous Research (CNAIR).

Teresa Montoya is the Provost's Postdoctoral Fellow 2019-2022 and an Assistant Professor of Anthropology at the University of Chicago. Montoya is a social scientist and media maker trained in socio-cultural anthropology, critical Indigenous studies, and filmmaking. Her current manuscript project, Permeable: Diné Politics of Extraction and Exposure, approaches territorial dispossession and environmental contamination in and around the Navajo Nation as pervasive features of contemporary Indigenous life.

SJ Zhang is an Assistant Professor of English Language and Literature at the University of Chicago. Zhang's research and teaching are both concerned with seventeenth through nineteenth-century archives of slavery and marronage in the United States and the Caribbean. She is interested in how resistance practices and flight from enslavement by Black and Native individuals in the Caribbean and North America shaped textual and visual production in the colonial period.

This event is sponsored by The Human Rights Lab, The Center for the Study of Race, Politics, and Culture, and Center for Identity + Inclusion at the University of Chicago.

Persons with disabilities who need special assistance should contact Tierra Kilpatrick 72 hours in advance at kilpatr3@uchicago.edu. Closed Captioning (CC) and ASL interpretation will be provided.