With a grant from the Mellon Foundation’s Monuments Project, Margaret Jacobs and Christina Faw Faw Goodson are leading a multifaceted project aimed at reconnecting members of the Otoe-Missouria Tribe with their ancestral homeland in southeast Nebraska and educating Nebraskans about the area’s Indigenous history. Jacobs, Charles J. Mach Professor of History and director of the Center for Great Plains Studies, and Goodson, an Otoe-Missouria educator, historian and cultural linguist, are connecting people around the area’s shared history, with plans to create land-based commemorations, build relationships, facilitate reconciliation and document the process to share with other communities. The $1.58 million Mellon grant is the largest arts and humanities research grant in the university’s history.
