Restoring Indigenous Food Sovereignty
Tuesday, November 7 
6PM 

This event is presented by Nebraska Public Media in partnership with The Durham Museum and Vision Maker Media. Additional community partners include the Center for Great Plains Studies. 

Inspired by topics in Ken Burns’s The American Buffalo, this conversation will explore rematriation – the restoration and revitalization of Indigenous foodways, lifeways and cultural knowledge. Learn about this growing movement through excerpts from the recent short films Homecoming by Julianna Brannum (Comanche), a companion film to The American Buffalo that documents Jason Baldes and the work of the InterTribal Buffalo Council, and Seed Warriors, which highlights Deb Echo-Hawk and the Pawnee Seed Preservation Society.

Panelists: 

-       Brandon Cobb (Cherokee Nation), Indigenous Conservation Specialist, The Nature Conservancy

-       Suzi French (Umóⁿhoⁿ), farm-to-school director for the Umóⁿhoⁿ Nation Public School

-       Dan O’Brien, featured in The American Buffalo, owner of Wild Idea Buffalo Ranch and author of Great Plains Bison

-       Rebekka Schlichting (Ioway Tribe of Kansas & Nebraska), assistant professor of the practice at the University of Kansas William Allen White School of Journalism and Mass Communications, owner of Native Storytelling Nation and director of Seed Warriors

-       Renée Sans Souci (Umóⁿhoⁿ), Indigenous Educator and Cultural Consultant (moderator)

This event is presented by Nebraska Public Media in partnership with The Durham Museum and Vision Maker Media. Additional community partners include the Center for Great Plains Studies. 

The American Buffalo premieres  Oct. 16 and 17 on PBS. Learn more at PBS.org/americanbuffalo.