Visualizing Northeastern Removal: Cartographic Challenges of Mapping Chicagoland’s Indian Removals

Native Cultures of the Americas

Speaker: Kabl Wilkerson, Harvard University

Kabl Wilkerson is a Ph.D. candidate in history at Harvard University and a citizen of the Citizen Potawatomi Nation. They received their BA from Texas Tech University in 2019. Their scholarly interests include examining the racialization of Native peoples through forced assimilation, the Indian Reorganization Act, and the ways in which these forces influenced the formation of race law in the Third Reich.

Community-centered projects include Northeastern Indian Removal, the complexities of removed identities via the treaty-making process, bodéwadmimwen language reclamation and protection, and Neshnabék material cultural production and aesthetic evolution as historical method.

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