Jean Dennison

Jean Dennison, PhD (Osage Nation) is Co-director for the Center for American Indian and Indigenous Studies (CAIIS) and a Professor of American Indian Studies at the University of Washington. She has spent the last 22 years witnessing, researching, and writing about Osage Nation government. She is author of multiple academic articles and two books: Colonial Entanglement: Constituting a Twenty-First-Century Osage Nation and Vital Relations: How the Osage Nation Moves Indigenous Nationhood Into the Future. These book use grounded ethnographic methods to understand Osage Nation government today. As Co-director for the Center for American Indian and Indigenous Studies at UW, Dennison has raised 8 million dollars to support programming and grants creating an ecosystem of care for Indigenous students, faculty, and staff at the University of Washington.

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