Jean Dennison

Dennison is a citizen of the Osage Nation, an Associate Professor of American Indian Studies, and Co-director for the Center for American Indian and Indigenous Studies at the University of Washington. She is author of multiple academic articles and books, including Colonial Entanglement: Constituting a Twenty-First-Century Osage Nation and Vital Relations: How the Osage Nation is Moving Indigenous Nationhood Into the Future, which will be released in Spring 2024.

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