Join us Friday, Dec. 5 in the Anoli' Theater from 1-4 p.m. for Shintok Hooikbittooka̱ Aponokfónkha: We Remember That They Built the Mounds Long Ago.
Hear the following presentations from these two prestigious scholars. The audience will have a chance to ask them questions as well.
Singleton will have copies of his book “Recovering Ancient Spiro - Native American Art, Ritual, and Cosmic Renewal,” and Thompson will have the newly printed second edition of “Choctaw Food: Remembering the Land, Rekindling Ancient Knowledge” to sign.
Dr. Ian Thompson
Ian Thompson, Ph.D., serves as the Choctaw Nation of Oklahoma Tribal Historic Preservation Officer. In this role, he facilitates a Choctaw Nation Historic Preservation Department team that works to protect Choctaw historic sites in a nine-state area. Thompson is a registered professional archaeologist and a tribal council-certified Choctaw community language and culture Instructor. He has written more than 100 community articles on Choctaw history and culture and written “Choctaw Food: Remembering the Land, Rekindling Ancient Knowledge,” a book designed to aid ongoing Choctaw cultural revitalization efforts. Thompson is past president of the Oklahoma Bison Association, a former chair of the Smithsonian Repatriation Review Committee and currently serves on the external advisory board for the Center for Braiding Indigenous Knowledges. Together, he and his wife, Amy, manage Nan Awaya Heritage Farm, a hands-on experiment in deep cultural revitalization and landscape restoration. Thompson has worked in the Choctaw traditional arts of flintknapping, bow-making, hide-tanning and pottery since his youth.
Dr. Eric D. Singleton
Eric D. Singleton, Ph.D., is the National Cowboy & Western Heritage Museum McCasland Chair of Cowboy Culture and Curator of Native American Art and Ethnology. His research focuses on North American Great Plains and Southeastern two-dimensional and three-dimensional artwork as well as pre-Columbian and historical symbology, ritual and belief. Singleton has co-written four books, won two Oklahoma Book of the Year awards, completed 24 exhibitions and worked on four documentaries. He is on the Cheyenne and Arapaho Museum Foundation and the Caddo Archaeological Journal. Singleton was formerly on the board of the Oscar B. Jacobson Foundation.
