TEDx Speaker Ronnie Stephens on His Legacy Journey as a Member of the Quapaw and Cherokee Tribes, the Impact of NAGPRA, How Best to Preserve and Celebrate Native American Culture & the Importance of Storytelling

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1:50 background of Ronnie’s “legacy journey” as a member of the Quapaw and Cherokee Tribes

3:30 1897 allotment of 240 acres to Stephens' great-grandfather

4:30 Quapaw Tribe’s relocation from Arkansas to Oklahoma 

6:30 McGirt v. Oklahoma, 140 S. Ct. 2452 (2020)

9:00 issues identified by Tribal Leaders

10:50 Dawes Commission and Burke Act

17:00 management of allotted land

19:25 Emily Gould – question about allotted land 

24:45 Keeping Traditions Alive exhibition

26:20 Killers of the Flower Moon rewritten with input from Osage Nation

27:55 Echo film involved input from Choctaw Nation

30:00 Alan Robertshaw–Prey-film with Native American heroine

31:55 Dark Winds series

33:30 policy shifts needed 

38:30 NAGPRA and its amendments

43:45 education needed for cultural sensitivity 

46:00 BBC Documentary: Rich Hall’s Inventing the Indian

49:20 Lauren Gowler–question about historic US federal laws

55:00 definition of justice 

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