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Jamestown Settlement’s popular Director’s Series continues on September 18 with Dr. Ned Blackhawk, an enrolled member of the Te-Moak Tribe of Western Shoshone Indians of Nevada and the Howard R. Lamar Professor of History and American Studies at Yale University.

The Director’s Series, now in its third year and sponsored by TowneBank, features Christy S. Coleman, executive director of the Jamestown-Yorktown Foundation, as she sits down with prominent scholars and public figures for lively and enlightening dialog surrounding our shared legacies of American history.

Blackhawk serves as the faculty coordinator for the Yale Indigenous Performing Arts Program, the Native American Language Project, The Henry Roe Cloud Dissertation Writing Fellowship, and, as co-director, of the NYU-Yale American Indian Sovereignty Project. He is the author and co-editor of four books, including the winner of the National Book Award for "The Rediscovery of America: American Indians and the Unmaking of U.S. History" (Yale University Press, 2022) and “Violence over the Land: Indians and Empires in the Early American West” (Harvard University Press, 2006).

The program begins at 7 p.m. in Jamestown Settlement’s Robins Foundation Theater, followed by a book-signing event at 8:30 p.m. Guests can reserve their live in-person or virtual seats for $10 per program. Admission is limited and tickets must be purchased in advance online at jyfmuseums.org/directorsseries.