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Kathleen DuVal, professor of history at the University of North Carolina Chapel Hill, will give this year's Thomas P. Kennedy Lecture at 5 p.m. Tuesday, March 12, in Giffels Auditorium, Old Main.
NATIVE GROUND, Brad Lookingbill Long before the Europeans arrived and claimed dominion over an imagined wilderness, the original inhabitants developed diverse cultures in relation to the rivers, prairies, plains, plateaus, and woodlands. Missouri was native ground to multiple tribal groups, who made it home. In addition to the Osage Indians, the Quapaw, Otoe, Missouria, Ioway, Sauk, Fox, Omaha, Peoria, Piankeshaw, Ponca, Kaw, and Chickasaw resided in parts of the state before its boundaries appeared on a map. A
"Faulkner and all the rest of them were always going on about this tragic sense of history, and we're supposed to sit on our porches talking about it all the time. I never did that. My South was always the New South. My first memories are of the country club, of people playing golf." --Walker Percy
UVA Wise is celebrating the release of its spring literary journal with a Coffee Night featuring Appalachian poet Rita Quillen.
News Release On Native Ground Parks, hospitals, schools, and streets all bear the name “Sutter” in honor of early California settler Johann Sutter, a hero in