By Sara Černe, Agléška R. Cohen-Rencountre, Bonnie Etherington, Andrew Freiman, and Samantha Majhor.
In September 2018, the authors of this post traveled to various locations along the Upper Mississippi in Minnesota as graduate participants with a 2018-2020 multi-institutional, interdisciplinary Humanities Without Walls project. Entitled “Indigenous Art and Activism in Changing Climates: The Mississippi River Valley, Colonialism, and Environmental Change,” the project is funded by the Andrew Mellon Foundation. We were joined by faculty: Kelly Wisecup (Project Leader & PI, Northwestern), Vicente Diaz (Co-PI, U of Minnesota), Christopher Pexa (Project Coordinator, U of Minnesota), Jacki Thompson Rand (U of Iowa), Phillip Round (U of Iowa), and Caroline Wigginton (U of Mississippi). Other faculty participants are Doug Kiel (Northwestern), Robert Michael Morrissey (U of Illinois Urbana-Champaign), and Project Advisors Margaret Pearce (U of Maine) and Robbie Ethridge (U of Mississippi). Over the next two years we will all also travel to Chicago and to Mississippi as we develop our collaborative research. After the trip to the upper reaches of the river valley, we graduate student participants compiled our reflections. We combine the critical with the creative, and include visual responses with poetic, essay, and other textual reflections.
Jim Rock (Dakota) explains the significance of caves along the Mississippi in the Twin Cities. Jim is Planetarium Projects Director at the University of Minnesota, Duluth.
In the next few issues of The Repatriation Files, we share our responses to our initial encounters with the Mississippi.
In September 2018, the authors of this post traveled to various locations along the Upper Mississippi in Minnesota as graduate participants with a 2018-2020 multi-institutional, interdisciplinary Humanities Without Walls project. Entitled “Indigenous Art and Activism in Changing Climates: The Mississippi River Valley, Colonialism, and Environmental Change,” the project is funded by the Andrew Mellon Foundation. We were joined by faculty: Kelly Wisecup (Project Leader & PI, Northwestern), Vicente Diaz (Co-PI, U of Minnesota), Christopher Pexa (Project Coordinator, U of Minnesota), Jacki Thompson Rand (U of Iowa), Phillip Round (U of Iowa), and Caroline Wigginton (U of Mississippi). Other faculty participants are Doug Kiel (Northwestern), Robert Michael Morrissey (U of Illinois Urbana-Champaign), and Project Advisors Margaret Pearce (U of Maine) and Robbie Ethridge (U of Mississippi). Over the next two years we will all also travel to Chicago and to Mississippi as we develop our collaborative research. After the trip to the upper reaches of the river valley, we graduate student participants compiled our reflections. We combine the critical with the creative, and include visual responses with poetic, essay, and other textual reflections.
