Native American Heritage Month Keynote: "Native American Graduate Students in the Early Nineteenth Century"

Join us in recognizing and celebrating Native American Heritage Month with a talk from Christina Snyder, McCabe Greer Professor of History at Penn State. While writing her previous book, Great Crossings: Indians, Settlers, and Slaves in the Age of Jackson (Oxford, 2017), Snyder learned that some Native American men earned post-graduate degrees at American colleges and universities in the 1820s and 1830s, despite a rising tide of racism that accompanied the federal government's Indian Removal policy. She will speak more about these Indigenous intellectuals - their backgrounds, motivations, and post-graduate careers - and reflect on what their stories tell us about education and Native American activism.