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November is National Native American Heritage Month. Join us for the second lecture of our inaugural Native American Heritage Month Lecture Series - ‘Majesty of the Osage’, presented by speaker Jim Duncan. About the talk: This presentation covers the principal American Indian nation that inhabited Missouri, northern Arkansas, Oklahoma, and Kansas, (along with the Illinois prairie peninsula). The Osage were the most powerful nation east of the Rocky Mountains, occupying the Central Mississippi Valley. Learn about their past culture, their migrations, their arts, and how they have excelled in the present.
About the speaker: Jim Duncan has ancestry that includes Osage on his mother’s side and Cherokee on his father’s. He is an archaeologist, educator, author, and Osage scholar. He served as Director of the Missouri State Museum, Exhibits Director for the Missouri Department of Conservation, and also worked in public education. Jim directed the Conservation Department’s 3-year statewide programming for the Lewis and Clark Bicentennial from 1983 to 1986. Jim has lectured at Washington University, the History Museum, and throughout the state while on the Missouri Humanities Council Speakers Bureau. Jim co-authored The Petroglyphs and Pictographs of Missouri, co-edited The Rock-Art of Eastern North America, and Picture Cave, as well as published a number of articles on Osage iconography and oral traditions in various edited volumes.
Nov. 13, 6:30-7:30pm in the Saint Louis Carousel event space. $5/person. Space is limited. Pre-registration is recommended, but not required.
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15055 Faust Park, Chesterfield, Missouri 63017, United States
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