The Paul A. Olson Seminars in Great Plains Studies offer an opportunity for interested scholars, students, and members of the community to come together to examine various topics related to the Great Plains. The seminars, offered monthly during the academic year, are free and open to the public. If you need an accommodation, please call 402/472-3964.
SPRING 2012
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January 18
Buffalo Bill's Great Plains, 1846-1879
Speaker: Douglas Seefeldt, Assistant Professor of History, Faculty Fellow, Center for
Digital Research in the Humanities, UNL
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February 15
The Great Sioux Uprising — 1862
Speaker: Hugh Reilly, Associate Professor, School of Communication, UNO
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March 14
Nineteenth-century Fort Peck Assiniboine Cultural Persistence
Speakers: Dennis J. Smith, Associate Professor of History and
Native American Studies, UNO
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April 11
Reflections on the Morrill Act & the Man For Whom It's Named
Speaker: F. Edwin Harvey, Professor of Hydrologic Sciences/
Research Hydrogeologist, School of Natural Resources, UNL




