This program will take place at Cary Hall, 1605 Massachusetts Avenue, Lexington, MA.

This program is in partnership with and hosted by the Cary Lecture Series. Please visit the Cary Lecture Series website for more information and contact them with any questions.

American Indian people make up around 2% of the American population, and traditionally, Native American history has received little historical attention.  But American engagement with Native histories has also been cyclical.  After the Standing Rock resistance, and with increased attention to injustices past and present (including in popular culture) we may be at a high point in the cycle.  Recent scholars have suggested as much!

In this talk, Phil Deloria will suggest ways we might better understand Native American history as a critical part of American history, engage some of the Native critiques of that history, and reassert the importance of Indigenous history on its own terms.

Philip Deloria is a citizen of the Standing Rock Sioux Tribe of North and South Dakota and Leverett Saltonstall Professor of History at Harvard University.  Among his many accomplishments are two books, Playing Indian and Indians in Unexpected Places.