MSU's Wallace Stegner Chair in Western American Studies and the Native American Studies department are excited to announce that Dr. Kim TallBear will be coming to campus on Thursday, April 7. Dr. TallBear’s lecture “The Vanishing Indian Speaks Back: Race, Genomics, and Indigenous Rights” will be held at 7 p.m. in the Hagar Auditorium at Museum of the Rockies. A reception will follow the event. Admission is free, but tickets are necessary and can be found at https://www.eventbrite.com/e/294901958697.

Dr. Kim TallBear is Professor of Native Studies and 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, and raised on the Flandreau Santee Sioux Reservation in South Dakota and in St. Paul, Minnesota, by her mother, grandmother, and great-grandmother. She is author of Native American DNA: Tribal Belonging and the False Promise of Genetic Science (2013) and numerous other influential publications on the roles of science and technology in the colonization of Indigenous peoples, on the ways Indigenous peoples resist, regulate, collaborate in, and initiate science and technology, and on settler colonialism and alternatives to it. She is a member of the Oak Lake Writers Society, a group of Dakota, Lakota, and Nakota (Oceti Sakowin) writers who publish individually and together, including volumes related to Oceti Sakowin life, law, history, and culture.