This presentation was delivered as part of the Tribal Lands and Environment Forum: Virtual Gathering in August 2021 by Summer King with the Quapaw Nation, Jennifer Clancey with the KSU Tribal TAB, Damon Dunbar, M.S. with the Cheyenne and Arapaho Tribes, Loren Waters with the KSU Tribal TAB Partner/Cherokee Nation and Kiowa Tribe, and Laurel Smith with the University of Oklahoma.
Thank you to everyone that joined us live for the premiere of the film Restoring Néške'emāne. The next public viewing of this film will be available at the National Brownfields Conference in Oklahoma City on Thursday, December 9, 2021. ITEP and KSU Tribal TAB will also provide a link to the recording after it runs the film festival circuit. Additionally, please feel free to contact Jennifer Clancey from KSU Tribal TAB (jmclancey@ksu.edu) with any questions.
Join KSU Tribal TAB for this storytelling session, which begins with the premiere of the brief documentary, "Restoring Néške'emāne" (Restoring Mother Earth). The film showcases Damon Dunbar, Acting Executive Director of Department of Housing for the Cheyenne and Arapaho Tribes, and his decades' long effort to redevelop the Concho Indian Boarding School. Following the film screening, Damon and Loren Waters, film director and citizen of the Cherokee Nation and the Kiowa Tribe, will discuss the prominent themes of the film, including intergenerational trauma, colonialism, community collaboration, resilience and healing, and Indigenous futurism. The two will relate how these themes shape community vision and demonstrate how sharing the story of the land and the journey of the community is an intrinsic component of tribal brownfields projects.
