Episode 2: Join host Johnnie Jae and Kevin Abourezk, a citizen of the Rosebud Sioux Tribe and team leader of the Creating Land-Based Commemorations group of the WFOA project, as they talk about the project’s beginnings, goals, and how everyone can make a difference in reconciliation efforts.

Abourezk is a journalist and Deputy Managing Editor of ICTNews.org, which features Native American news and information. In his 25-year career, he has written about Native American people and stories and has received many national awards. He received a master’s degree in Journalism and Mass Communications from the University of Nebraska-Lincoln and a Bachelor of Arts degree in English from the University of South Dakota.

In this first episode of our series, host Johnnie Jae talks with the co-directors of the Walking in the Footsteps of our Ancestors: Re-indigenizing Southeast Nebraska project, Christina Goodson and Margaret Jacobs, about how the project started and its overall goals to connect the Otoe-Missouria people to their homelands and educate non Native Nebraskans about the history and ongoing presence of the Tribe and other Indigenous peoples in our region.

This project is funded by the Mellon Foundation.