Please join Sarah Grinder for a discussion with Dr. David Shane Lowry about his new book, Lumbee Pipelines: American Indian Movement in the Residue of Settler Colonialism (University of Nebraska Press). Our discussion will briefly cover a range of topics of interest to the USM community: the politics of Indian (Indigenous) presence in American histories and futures; Lumbee and other American Indian contributions to healthcare, education, and popular culture; theft of American Indian land (and work to get that land returned); and much more! Come celebrate Indigenous excellence by spending time with Dr. Lowry in a discussion of his important work.
Event Details
Tuesday, September 23, 5:00-7:00pm
- Reception: 5:00pm
- Author Discussion: 5:30pm
- Book signing & Dessert: 6:30pm*
Location: McGoldrick Salons (2nd Floor), USM Portland Campus
*Books will be available to purchase at the event.
The event is free and open to the public, and no registration is required. For those who need it, parking is available in Garage 1 for $4.15/hour.
About David Shane Lowry
Lowry is an anthropologist and enrolled member of the Lumbee Tribe of North Carolina. He grew up in the Lumbee community in Robeson County, North Carolina after moving from St. Louis, Missouri. In 2022-2023, he was Visiting Senior Fellow in the School of Social Policy at Brandeis University. In 2021-22, he was Distinguished Fellow in Native American Studies at MIT. He also taught and mentored first and second year medical students at Chicago Medical School. He spent a couple years teaching anthropology at the Bible Institute of Los Angeles (Biola University). David is a graduate of MIT (SB) and UNC-Chapel Hill (MA and PhD). His graduate work (in the Lumbee community) was funded by the National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellowship (NSF GRF). At University of Southern Maine, David is leading IRL (Indigenous Relationships Lab) as a place for and commitment to justice and re-mattering of American Indian and other Indigenous peoples from Maine, to Massachusetts, to North Carolina, to Hawaii. David’s podcast, “Returning the Land”, is available on Apple, Spotify, and other podcast platforms.
Sponsored by:
- USM’s Department of Geography-Anthropology
- USM’s Department of Occupational Therapy
- USM’s Libraries and Learning
- The Osher Map Library and Smith Center for Cartographic Education