On this episode of A Life in Ruins Podcast, we interview Matt Reed. Matt is the Tribal Historic Preservation Officer for the Pawnee Nation of Oklahoma, We talk about how his families military service factored into his fascination with history and ultimately pushing him to study history as an undergraduate. We then talk about his academic career and how he got started at the Oklahoma Historical Society and what the goal of the society is. We talk about his change of careers and what he does as the Tribal Historic Preservation Officer. Matt and Carlton then detail their experience at the 2021 Plains Conference in Boulder, Colorado.
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Literature Recommendations
The Lost Universe by Gene Weltfish
Indian Sketches by John Treat Irving
An Unspeakable Sadness-The Dispossession of the Nebraska Indians by David Wishart
Some Things Are Not Forgotten by Martha Royce Blaine
Pawnee Passage by Martha Royce Blaine
1491 by Charles C. Mann
1493 by Charles C. Mann
Interpreting Our Heritage by Freeman Tilden
Pox Americana by Elizabeth Fenn
Encounters at the Heart of the World by Elizabeth Fenn
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