Memory Rocks

Jean M. O’Brien

University of Minnesota

Jean M. O’Brien (White Earth Ojibwe) is Distinguished McKnight University Professor in the Department of History at the University of Minnesota. She is the author of five books and numerous articles in American Indian history. O’Brien is co-founder and Past President of the Native American and Indigenous Studies Association, and Past President of the American Society for Ethnohistory. With Robert Warrior she is the inaugural editor of Native American and Indigenous Studies. O’Brien was selected for the American Indian Historian Lifetime Achievement Award by the Western History Association in 2014, and was elected to the Society of American Historians in 2016.

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With the support of the Anneliese Maier Research Award from the Humboldt Foundation, Dr. Pamela Klassen of the University of Toronto and Prof. Dr. Monique Scheer, Director of the Ludwig-Uhland-Institut of Historical and Cultural Anthropology, University of Tübingen, are directing a research project on Religion and Public Memory in Multicultural Societies. The project runs from 2015 to […]

How Should We Understand Indigenous Spirituality (in English)? A reflection on the philosophy of listening Indigenous spirituality matters to Indigenous peoples. In this discussion, I am broadly interested in how Indigenous spirituality is used in contemporary Indigenous politics. More specifically, I ask the question: How should we understand Indigenous spirituality in English? My discussion involves […]