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Angela Parker, Assistant Professor of History, University of Denver

Our lived landscapes seem so concrete, but many things flow through, over, and out of them to radically change the lands we call home. Dr. Angela Parker (Mandan, Hidatsa, Cree) considers the impact the flows of capitalism – exemplified in a 1950s era hydroelectric project, and the early 2000s Bakken oil boom – has had on the political and community identity at the Fort Berthold Indian Reservation in North Dakota. In both eras, the deluge of “development” hinged on narratives of inevitability and the Euro-American fungibility of land and resources.

Angela Parker (Mandan, Hidatsa, Cree) is an enrolled member of the Three Affiliated Tribes of the Fort Berthold Indian Reservation in North Dakota, and participates at her father’s reservation, the Rocky Boy Indian Reservation in Montana. Angela earned her B.A. in History from Stanford University, and her M.A./Ph.D. in Twentieth Century United States and Native American History from the University of Michigan-Ann Arbor. She currently teaches as an Assistant Professor of History at the University of Denver, and her research focuses on twentieth century Native American and U.S. history, particularly the long twentieth century history of oil extraction in Indigenous communities, the evolution of tribal sovereignty, and Native activism. Angela is the daughter of Karol (’74) and Larry Parker ’(74) and lives in Boulder, Colorado with her partner, Ty, and their son, Icuuwushga Xaxish.

This event is supported by the Macalester Native and Indigenous (MNI) Initiative, Environmental Studies, and the Macalester Program Board.