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Artist George Catlin visited the Kickapoos at Fort Levenworth in 1830, where Kenekuk, the Kickapoo Prophet, likely sat for this portrait. Catlin described him as "a very shrewd and talented man."

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Great Plains Quarterly features essays on mapping literature

December 15, 2017

Sheldon Art Museum

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First Friday includes fashion show, book signing, dance performances

November 1, 2017

"Prairie Pals" by Charles M. Russell, posthumous cast (1960) from original wax model (1903), bronze.

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Animal artworks featured in Great Plains museum

October 26, 2017

Lance Morgan

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Hubbard Lecture to focus on tribal economics

October 16, 2017

Bradford Morrow

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'Prague Sonata' author reads from new novel Oct. 9

October 2, 2017

Karen Hansen

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Scholar, author to deliver talk on Dakota, Scandinavian interactions

September 29, 2017

Merry Wiesner-Hanks

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Wiesner-Hanks to give McLaughlin Memorial Lecture

September 20, 2017

A timelapse compliation image of the North Loup River from the Platte Basin Timelapse project.

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Platte Basin Timelapse project relocates to Center for Great Plains Studies

September 20, 2017

Statue of prairie woman outside Center for Great Plains Studies

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'American Serengeti' author kicks off fall Great Plains lecture series

September 7, 2017

Detail of "Red Barn" by Dale Nichols, circa 1940, oil on canvas

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'Collecting Nebraska' offers visual history of state

July 24, 2017

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Great Plains Art Museum to open Nebraska photography exhibition

June 19, 2017

Dennis Kuhnel (from left) and Matt Douglass examine a collection brought in by John Furrow during an Oct. 7, 2016 Artifacts Roadshow in Mullen, Neb.

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Artifact Roadshows gain notoriety as digital archive grows

May 26, 2017