The audio clips below are from "Occupying Indigenous Land: Kansa(s) Perspectives about Land Acknowledgements", an online discussion about Indigenous perspectives on land acknowledgments and the #landback movement . This conversation includes James Pepper Henry, Vice-Chair of the Kaw Nation, C. Huffman, independent scholar and Kaw Nation citizen, and Chester Hubbard, Vice President of the Native American Student Body, and was planned and moderated by David Mackay, Associate Director of Theatre.
James Pepper Henry, vice-chair of the Kaw Nation, discusses why land acknowledgements should be "people acknowledgements."
C. Huffman, Kaw Nation citizen, discusses understandings of time and tense in Kaw language and how this relates to land acknowledgements.
James Pepper Henry, vice-chair of the Kaw Nation, discusses coming home to Kansas and the challenges and pain therein.
James Pepper Henry, vice-chair of the Kaw Nation, talks about the extreme population loss experienced by the Kaw Nation due to settler incursion and removal. And also discusses how Kanza people are…
James Pepper Henry, vice-chair of the Kaw Nation, discusses how the Kaw Nation came to own land in Kansas again, Allegawaho Park. He further comments on the parallels between historical and present-…
Chester Hubbard, Prairie Band Potowatomi Nation citizen, talks about his family’s love for the land and his conflicted feelings about his nation’s land within historic Kaw land.
James Pepper Henry, vice-chair of the Kaw Nation, talks about Kaw language. He discusses fluent speakers in his family, the harm of boarding school, the work of scholars to record the language and…
James Pepper Henry, in his capacity as Executive Director of the First Americans Museum, discusses the choice to use the term “First Americans.”
