More Chickasaw Nation Media March 18, 2024
The Chickasha Ifoo (Chickasaw Women) Empowerment Series will be held again at the Chickasaw Cultural Center in Sulphur, Oklahoma on March 26th at 2pm.
Dr. Elizabeth Rule of the Chickasaw Nation is the guest speaker for the first 2024 session.
A quarterly event that highlights the accomplishments and perspectives of Chickasaw women, the series features Chickasaw speakers speaking on topics related to their research, experiences and perspectives, highlighting the unique perspectives of Chickasaw women around the world.
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Rule is an assistant professor of critical race, gender and cultural studies at American University in Washington, D.C. Her research on Indigenous issues has been featured in The Washington Post, Matter of Fact with Soledad O’Brien, The Atlantic, Newsy and National Public Radio.
She is also an author with academic articles published in American Quarterly and American Indian Culture and Research Journal.
Rule created the Guide to Indigenous DC, a mobile app that curates Washington DC’s most famous landmarks and historic sites and highlights the important contributions of Native Americans.
She continued to expand her activities, publishing “The Baltimore Native American Guide” and “The Maryland Native American Guide.”
Georgetown University Press recently published her first book, Native DC: Indigenous Peoples and the Nation’s Capital. The book analyzes historical and contemporary places of significance to Native people in Washington and complements her mobile app, Native DC Guide. The book is also the winner of the 2023 Ethnic Studies Association Outstanding Book Award.
Her book, Reproducing Resistance: Gendered Violence and Indigenous Nationhood, won the Julian Mezey Prize for best paper in 2020 from the Law, Culture and Humanities Association.
Rule is currently in the second year of a three-year Social Impact Fellowship Residency at the Kennedy Center in Washington, DC, where he is writing a television show titled “Moon Time.”
She recently took a leave of absence from American University to accept a new political appointment in New York State Governor Kathy Hockle’s administration as the state’s first Deputy Commissioner for Indian Affairs, a policy-making position dedicated to supporting the self-determination and well-being of Native Americans.
Ruhl continues to be an educator through research and guest speaking on Indigenous issues, having given over 100 talks and interviews in seven countries on three continents.
Ruhl earned his bachelor’s degree from Yale University and his master’s and doctorate in American Studies from Brown University.
The Chikasha Ihoo (Chickasaw Women) Empowerment Series is free and open to the public. To register and learn more, visit Chickasaw.net/Empowerment.
This year’s second series event will be held at the Chickasaw Cultural Center, 867 Cooper Memorial Drive in Sulphur, on Aug. 27, so be sure to save the date!
For more information, contact the Chickasaw Nation Literary Arts Department at (580) 436-7282 or email CreativeArts@Chickasaw.net.
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