{"id":22296,"date":"2022-03-22T10:46:32","date_gmt":"2022-03-22T14:46:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.indianz.com\/News\/?p=22296"},"modified":"2022-03-22T10:51:36","modified_gmt":"2022-03-22T14:51:36","slug":"msu-news-lecture-focuses-on-the-vanishing-indian","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/indianz.com\/News\/2022\/03\/22\/msu-news-lecture-focuses-on-the-vanishing-indian\/","title":{"rendered":"MSU News: Lecture focuses on ‘The Vanishing Indian’"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Kim TallBear, a professor at the University of Alberta specializing in Indigenous rights and genomics and a member of the Sisseton Wahpeton Oyate tribe, will deliver the 2022 Stegner Lecture at Montana State University on Thursday, April 7, 2022. Her lecture, \u201cThe Vanishing Indian Speaks Back: Race, Genomics and Indigenous Rights,\u201d will held at 7 p.m. in the Hager Auditorium of the Museum of the Rockies. Photo provided<\/figcaption><\/div><\/div>\r\n
Authority on Indigenous rights and genomics to deliver MSU Stegner Lecture on April 7<\/div>\r\n
Tuesday, March 22, 2022<\/div>\r\n
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<\/p>\r\nKim TallBear, a professor at the University of Alberta specializing in Indigenous rights and genomics and a member of the Sisseton Wahpeton Oyate tribe, will deliver the 2022 Stegner Lecture at Montana State University on Thursday, April 7. Her lecture, \u201cThe Vanishing Indian Speaks Back: Race, Genomics and Indigenous Rights,\u201d will held at 7 p.m. in the Hager Auditorium of the Museum of the Rockies.\r\n

<\/P>\r\nDoors open at 6:30 p.m. and a reception will follow the event. Admission is free, but tickets are necessary and can be found at eventbrite.com\/e\/294901958697<\/a>.\r\n

<\/p>\r\nTallBear is a professor of Native studies and the Canada Research Chair in Indigenous Peoples, Technoscience and Society at the University of Alberta. She is an enrolled member of the Sisseton-Wahpeton Oyate in South Dakota, descended from the Cheyenne and Arapaho Tribes of Oklahoma. TallBear was raised on the Flandreau Santee Sioux Reservation in South Dakota as well as in St. Paul, Minnesota. \r\n

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Native American DNA: Tribal Belonging and the False Promise of Genetic Science<\/a> by Kim TallBear. University of Minnesota Press, 2013<\/a><\/figcaption>\r\n<\/div><\/div>\r\n

<\/P>\r\nShe is author of \u201cNative American DNA: Tribal Belonging and the False Promise of Genetic Science<\/a>\u201d and other publications on the roles of science and technology in the colonization of Indigenous peoples and Indigenous involvement in science and technology. She is a member of the Oak Lake Writers Society, a group of Dakota, Lakota and Nakota writers.\r\n

<\/P>\r\nTallBear has a master\u2019s degree in city planning from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and a bachelor\u2019s degree in community planning from the University of Massachusetts at Boston. TallBear worked for 10 years as an environmental planner for federal agencies, tribal governments and national tribal organizations. Her later work for an Indigenous environmental research organization led her to complete her doctorate at the University of California, Santa Cruz in the history of consciousness.\r\n

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