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Color portraits of (from left) Danielle Boyer, J.S. Onésimo Sándoval, Shaylyn Romney Garrett, Neil Linscheid and Carol Graham on a color campus background. (Courtesy photos)

From Nebraska Today

Annual conference to focus on ‘Great Plains Futures’

February 23, 2026

Fran Kaye, professor of English, stands next to Jim McCrorie, then director of the Great Plains Research Centre at the University of Regina, in a tallgrass prairie.

From Nebraska Today

Center for Great Plains Studies to celebrate 50th year with events, exhibitions

February 16, 2026

“Drive-In Church” by Steve C. LaRance (Little Shell Tribe of Chippewa Indians) — a 2022 oil painting of a young man and young woman standing on either side of a brown car with a prairie and mountains in the background.

From Nebraska Today

Great Plains Art Museum opens three exhibitions to kick off anniversaries

January 12, 2026

Two dozen or so people sit in a circle playing a traditional Indigenous guessing game called a hand game at the Spring Creek Prairie Audubon Center.

From Nebraska Today

Otoe-Missouria Day events include ceremony, art exhibition

September 10, 2025

Two Native men stand in front of pine trees under a night sky in a digital media artwork with an elaborate wooden border.

From Nebraska Today

Exhibition featuring 24 Otoe-Missouria artists to open Sept. 5

September 3, 2025

Otoe-Missouria youth and chaperones

Otoe-Missouria youth visit Lincoln

August 18, 2025

Sunflower blooming

July brings growth to Indigenous garden

July 9, 2025

Margaret Jacobs (right), Charles Mach Professor of history, director of the Center for Great Plains Studies and co-director of the Walking in the Footsteps of Our Ancestors project, speaks with project team members Cory DeRoin and Billie Tohee (both Otoe-Missouria) at Spring Creek Prairie Audubon Center near Denton.

From Nebraska Today

Otoe-Missouria project releases historical marker audit, community surveys

June 20, 2025

Color portrait of journalist and author Rebecca Nagle on a color campus background.

From Nebraska Today

Nagle wins Stubbendieck Great Plains Distinguished Book Prize

June 18, 2025

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Walking in the Footsteps of our Ancestors Youth Trip

May 6, 2025

Cory DeRoin speaking at a garden event

Garden project launched by Walking in the Footsteps of our Ancestors project

April 26, 2025

Finalist book covers

2025 Stubbendieck Book Prize Finalists

April 24, 2025