Guest Speaker: Professor John Low

On July 17, 2024, Professor John Low will present "Pokégnek Bodéwadmik - The Pokagon Band of Potawatomi: Survival and Revival through Storytelling." Professor Low will share the story of the Potawatomi of NW Indiana & SW Michigan with a particular focus on the Pokagon Potawatomi Nation. This is a free event made possible by a grant from Indiana Humanities & the National Endowment for the Humanities. Registration is required for the presentation due to limited capacity.

EXTEND YOUR EXPERIENCE: Continue the learning on magnificent Cedar Lake where Professor Low will join us for the 3:30 pm steamboat ride (20 minutes) and the 4:00 pm steamboat ride (45 minutes).  A boat ride is a separate add-on experience.  Choose your route and pay for your steamboat ride at https://app.gopassage.com/events/22589 

John N. Low received his Ph.D. in American Culture at the University of Michigan, and is an enrolled citizen of the Pokagon Band of Potawatomi Indians. He is also the recipient of a graduate certificate in Museum Studies and a Juris Doctorate from the University of Michigan. He earned a BA from Michigan State University, a second BA in American Indian Studies from the University of Minnesota, and an MA in Social Sciences from the University of Chicago.

Professor Low previously served as Executive Director of the Mitchell Museum of the American Indian in Evanston, Illinois, and served as a member of the Advisory Committee for the Indians of the Midwest Project at the D’Arcy McNickle Center for American Indian and Indigenous Studies at the Newberry Library, and the State of Ohio Cemetery Law Task Force. He has presented frequently at conferences including the Native American and Indigenous Studies Association (NAISA)), American Society for Ethnohistory (ASE) and the Organization of American Historians (OAH). He continues to serve as a member of his tribes’ Traditions & Repatriation Committee.

Dr. Low’s research interests and courses at the Ohio State University – Newark include American Indian histories, literatures, and cultures, Native identities, American Indian religions, Indigenous canoe cultures around the world, Urban American Indians, museums, material culture and representation, memory studies, American Indian law and treaty rights, Indigenous cross-cultural connections, critical landscape studies, and Native environmental perspectives and practices.