Winter Lecture Series: Native American Scholar George Ironstrack & the War of 1812
- Cost:
- Free
- Angel Mounds State Historic Site
- 8215 Pollack Avenue, Evansville, 47715 United States
Additional Information
On Friday, Dec. 5 at 7 p.m., Miami of Oklahoma tribal member and University of Miami professor George Ironstrack will present "Our Hearts are Heavy as the Earth: Miami Indians and the War of 1812" at Angel Mounds State Historic Site.
This presentation examines the War of 1812 from the perspective of one Myaamia (Miami Indian) historian. Ironstrack's talk will trace the conflict from the failure of the peace established in the first Treaty of Greenville, through the fracturing violence of the war itself, and concludes by looking impacts of the war and the ways in which Myaamia people choose to remember this difficult period of their history.
About George Ironstrack
George Ironstrack has participated in Myaamia language renewal projects as both a student and a teacher since the mid-1990s. He is a citizen of the Miami Tribe of Oklahoma and received an M.A. in Origins and History of the United States from the Department of History at Miami University in 2006. In 2008, he joined the Myaamia Center at Miami University (myaamiacenter.org) as its Assistant Director and currently heads up the Center's Education & Outreach Office. Examples of his work can be found on the Myaamia Community History & Ecology Blog: Aacimotaatiiyankwi
(myaamiahistory.wordpress.com).