Film: Jingle Dress Dancers in the Modern World: Ojibwe People and Pandemics

Join University of Minnesota Northrop Professor of American Studies and 2022 Guggenheim Fellowship recipient, Brenda Child, as she shares her film which considers the history of the Ojibwe Jingle Dress Dance tradition and its origin in the global pandemic of influenza in 1918 – 1920. Brenda is a member of the Red Lake Band of Chippewa and has previously served as a member of the board of trustees of the National Museum of the American Indian-Smithsonian.

This event is free and open to the public.