Jean Dennison

Associate Professor, American Indian Studies; Co-Director, Center for American Indian and Indigenous Studies
Jean Dennison

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Jean Dennison (Osage Nation) is Co-director for the Center for American Indian and Indigenous Studies and an Associate Professor of American Indian Studies at the University of Washington. Her book Colonial Entanglement: Constituting a Twenty-First-Century Osage Nation (UNC Press 2012) speaks directly to national revitalization, one of the most pressing issues facing American Indians today. The primary goal of her academic endeavor is to explore how Indigenous peoples negotiate and contest the ongoing settler colonial process in areas such as citizenship, governance, and sovereignty.

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