17th ANNUAL
“THE PROMISE AND POLITICS OF NATIVE LAND”
The symposium series will highlight the connection of land ownership in Indian and Oklahoma Territories to the promises and ideals of freedom with the intersecting histories of Black, White, and Indigenous peoples.
Professor in the Clara Luper Department of African and African American Studies; and Associate Dean of the Honors College at the University of Oklahoma, Director of the Oklahoma Black Homesteader Project, Fulbright Scholar, and scholar of Black Western Studies
Dr. Kalenda Eaton
PART 2:
May
28
THURSDAY
7:00–9:00pm
Langston University Tulsa,
Jack Henderson Allied Health
914 N. Greenwood Avenue, Tulsa, OK
Charles Howard Candler Professor of History – Emory University, 2013 NAACP Image Award for Outstanding Literary Work in Non-fiction, Past post as dean at Emory College of Arts and Science; and of the College of Humanities and Fine Arts at the University of Massachusetts Amherst, Author of Black Slaves, Indian Masters
Dr. Barbara Krauthamer
PART 3:
Sept
10
THURSDAY
7:00–9:00pm
OU Schusterman Learning Center,
Founders Hall
4502 E. 41st Street, Tulsa, OK
WE THANK OUR 2026 SYMPOSIUM SPONSORS
