Join us as we welcome Dr. Angela Parker (Mandan, Hidatsa, Cree) to the CU Boulder campus to discuss her 2024 book, Damming the Reservation: Tribal Sovereignty and Activism at Fort Berthold.

Author Biography

Angela Parker (Mandan, Hidatsa, Cree) is an enrolled member of the Three Affiliated Tribes of the Fort Berthold Indian Reservation in North Dakota, and participates at her father’s reservation, the Rocky Boy Indian Reservation in Montana. Angela earned her B.A. in History from Stanford University, and her M.A./Ph.D. in Twentieth Century United States and Native American History from the University of Michigan-Ann Arbor. She currently teaches as an Assistant Professor of History at the University of Denver, and her research focuses on twentieth century Native American and U.S. history, particularly the long twentieth century history of oil extraction in Indigenous communities, the evolution of tribal sovereignty, and Native activism. Angela lives in Boulder, Colorado with her partner, Ty, and their son, Icuuwushga Xaxish.