Potawatomi Removals: Forced and "Voluntary"
When: Monday, Oct 11, 2021 | 7:00 PM EDT
Where: Zoom Webinar
George Godfrey, a citizen Potawatomi, grew up on the Potawatomi, Sisseton-Whapeton Sioux, Hopi, Omaha, and Winnebago reservations. After receiving his doctorate from Cornell University, he researched Lepidoptera at the Illinois Natural History Survey, became a faculty member and then a university administrator at Haskell Indian Nations University before serving as National Program Leader for the U.S. Department of Agriculture, where he assisted 31 Tribal Colleges and Universities in the development of their undergraduate curricula and research programs.
In addition to his 40+ scientific publications, he has written six books:
- Watchekee (Overseer) Walking in Two Cultures
- Once a Grass Widow: Watchekee’s Destiny
- The Indian Marble
- Road to Uncertainty: Trials of Potawatomi Removals
- Cheyenne Oil
- A Perilous Journey
Dr. Godfrey also is President of the Potawatomi Trail of Death Association (potawatomi-tda.org), which memorializes the trail that the Potawatomi took when forcibly removed from northcentral Indiana and taken to east central Kansas in 1838. He is a traditional powwow dancer and storyteller and, with his Pat, have three to nine grown children ‒ depending on how you count.