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Center for Great Plains Studies

“Drive-In Church” by Steve C. LaRance (Little Shell Tribe of Chippewa Indians) — a 2022 oil painting of a young man and young woman standing on either side of a brown car with a prairie and mountains in the background.

Great Plains Art Museum opens three exhibitions to kick off anniversaries

January 12, 2026

Two dozen or so people sit in a circle playing a traditional Indigenous guessing game called a hand game at the Spring Creek Prairie Audubon Center.

Otoe-Missouria Day events include ceremony, art exhibition

September 10, 2025

Society & Culture

Two Native men stand in front of pine trees under a night sky in a digital media artwork with an elaborate wooden border.

Exhibition featuring 24 Otoe-Missouria artists to open Sept. 5

September 3, 2025

Margaret Jacobs (right), Charles Mach Professor of history, director of the Center for Great Plains Studies and co-director of the Walking in the Footsteps of Our Ancestors project, speaks with project team members Cory DeRoin and Billie Tohee (both Otoe-Missouria) at Spring Creek Prairie Audubon Center near Denton.

Otoe-Missouria project releases historical marker audit, community surveys

June 20, 2025

Society & Culture

Color portrait of journalist and author Rebecca Nagle on a color campus background.

Nagle wins Stubbendieck Great Plains Distinguished Book Prize

June 18, 2025

Society & Culture

A clearing with trees behind it on a partly cloudy day.

Center for Great Plains Studies, Otoe-Missouria to create Indigenous garden

April 9, 2025

A close-up of an American bison on grassland

Registration open for 2025 Great Plains conference, 'Wild Great Plains'

March 5, 2025

Society & Culture

Aerial photo of farmland

March 11 panel discussion will focus on the family farm

February 24, 2025

Agriculture & Environment

Karla Hernandez Torrijo

With letter-based exhibit, Hernandez Torrijos lifts voices from across the plains

January 10, 2025

Society & Culture

'Dear Great Plains' features Hernandez Torrijos' storyteller work

October 30, 2024

Illustration of windmill with "Dear Great Plains" in sky

'Dear Great Plains' opens Nov. 1 at Great Plains Art Museum

October 22, 2024

Native dancers perform before a crowd at the Center for Great Plains Studies.

Otoe-Missouria Day will feature public events, video at Husker football game

September 13, 2024