Cathy Coats (Metadata Specialist at the University of Minnesota - Twin Cities Libraries and 2018 SCSU Distinguished Thesis Awardee) with special guest, Dr. Amy Lonetree (University of California, Santa Cruz)
Coats (author of To Banish Forever) and Lonetree (Ho-Chunk) engage in a discussion of the largely untold story of the Ho-Chunk exile from Minnesota, in which local white residents formed a secret society, the Knights of the Forest, that sought to expel all Indigenous people from the region and deny their claims to some of the richest farmland in the world.
7 p.m. Wednesday, April 10
Atwood Memorial Center Theatre
Dr. Christopher Lehman (Department of Ethnic, Gender, and Women's Studies, St. Cloud State University)
On August 22, 1860, an enslaved woman from Mississippi named Eliza Winston petitioned for her freedom before a judge in Minnesota—and won. Dr. Lehman discusses his new book which uncovers the remarkable story of Winston’s first forty-two years and her long struggle to obtain her freedom.
7 p.m. Monday, April 22
Atwood Memorial Center Theatre