Mike Dockry, Northern Research Station and Serra Hoagland, Southern Research Station pictured after their presentations at the To Bridge a Gap Conference.
Two Weeks ago I participated in the 14th annual To Bridge a Gap Conference in Fayetteville, AR. The event was sponsored by the US Forest Service and the Eastern Shawnee Tribe and featured presentations and field trips for cultural heritage and natural resource managers. Many tribes, like my tribe the Citizen Potawatomi Nation, were removed from our ancestral territories to Oklahoma and other locations west of the Mississippi River. This conference has been a way for southern and removed tribes to work with the US Forest Service who is now charged with managing lands which once comprised their tribal estates. The local NPR affiliate did a great piece on the conference and I was honored to speak to them about my research. Click here to listen: http://www.kuaf.com/content/forest-service-native-tribes-collaborate
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