Native American Heritage Month and Shattering the Silences Present: The Right to Pray

The Right to Pray: The Sun Dance, Factionalism and Religious Suppression among the Kiowa is a lecture that will examine the attempt to hold a religious ceremony in a Native American community in Oklahoma and the subsequent legal events that occurred.

Dr. William Meadows will also address aspects of Native American law, court systems, tribal sovereignty, gender, ethnicity, religion, civil rights and the legal ramifications of this case. 

Dr. Meadows is a professor in the Sociology and Anthropology department at Missouri State University. His research focus is on Indian code talkers, Plains Indian military societies, Plains Indian ethnohistory and Kiowa orthography, etc.  

This is sponsored by Multicultural Programs in collaboration with Shattering the Silences, Diversity and Inclusion and the Missouri State University Faculty Center for Teaching and Learning.

Free