Virtual Lecture - Osage Women, Gender, & Empire
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Date and Time for this Past Event
- Friday, Mar 4, 2022 6:30 PM - 7:30 PM
Location
Sid Richardson Museum
309 Main Street
Details
The current exhibit Picturing the American West features a theme centered on the lives of Plains Indians and the American Bison. Included in this section of the installation is a group of paintings featuring buffalo hunts and a group of paintings featuring Plains Indian women following the hunt and moving camp. What was the relationship between these gender roles in Plains Indian societies like that of the Osage? Some historians claim that the Osage empire was built by the Osage’s men’s prowess. However, Osage cosmology defined men and women as necessary pairs; in their society, hunting and war, like everything else, involved both men and women. Join us as Dr. Tai Edwards explores how women and men built the Osage empire together, and how their system of gender complementarity served as a central site for experiencing, adapting to, and resisting the monumental change brought on by colonization.
Registration Required – opens January 25
Ages: 18+
Contact: Leslie Thompson at lthompson@SidRichardsonMuseum.org or 817.332.6554 if you have any questions or would like to be added to the wait list when registration is full.
