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With Greg Olson
| 1:30 p.m. | Author's Stage
Greg Olson, noted scholar and author of award-winning books The Ioway in Missouri (2008) and Indigenous Missourians: Ancient Societies to the Present (2023), will discuss the state’s overlooked and underrepresented indigenous population. His work reveals how the Show Me State’s indigenous past has spanned twelve millennia of Native presence, resilience, and evolution.
Greg Olson
Author and Researcher
Greg Olson
Greg Olson is an independent researcher and author who lives in Columbia, Missouri. He is the author of seven books and several articles about Native American history in Missouri and the Midwest. The Ioway in Missouri (2008) won the Missouri Humanities Governor’s Humanities Award for Distinguished Literary Achievement. His book, Ioway Life: Reservation and Reform, 1837-1860 (2016) was named a Kansas Notable Book in 2017. His most recent book, Indigenous Missourians: Ancient Societies to the Present (2023) won the Missouri Conference on History’s 2024 Book Award.
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