‘Indians Packed Their Stories’
Award-winning Native American history scholar to speak at Monmouth on Sept. 26.
MONMOUTH, Ill. – An award-winning history professor from Rutgers University will help Monmouth College kick off a series of events funded by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities.
Earlier this year, Monmouth College received a $149,965 grant from the NEH to fund a three-year history project about west central Illinois, titled “Resituating the Humanities in Place-Based Learning.”
“Among the things they took with them were their stories. Still, centuries later, those stories are being told and retold.” – Anne Mamary
Townsend will talk about the Delaware Indians “being moved and moved and moved, not because they wanted to but because they were forced to” and “how among the things they took with them were their stories,” said Monmouth professor of philosophy and religious studies Anne Mamary. “Still, centuries later, those stories are being told and retold.”
Townsend’s 2019 book, Fifth Sun, won the 2020 Cundill History Prize. She is the recipient of fellowships from the National Endowment for the Humanities, the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation and the Kluge Center of the Library of Congress.
The grant to Monmouth is part of a larger $33.8 million in grants the NEH announced earlier this year for 260 humanities projects across the country. The goal of Human Initiatives Grants is to strengthen the teaching and study of the humanities in higher education through the development or enhancement of humanities programs, courses and resources.
“This place-based curricula project will be unique by moving beyond the study of a particular place to examine the ways in which both displacement and replacement are affected by and in turn shape a sense of place,” said English professor David Wright, the project’s director.
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