Rediscovering Turtle Island Panel with Author Taylor Keen, Sept. 12

The Menard Center for Economic Inquiry and the Kingfisher Institute invite you to a panel discussion with professor Taylor Keen, Heider College of Business, on Thursday, Sept. 12, at 5 p.m. in the Harper Center Auditorium.

In this event, he and a panel of experts on the topic will talk about Keen's last book, Rediscovering Turtle Island - A First Peoples' Account of the Sacred Geography of America.

Rediscovering Turtle Island presents a comprehensive reimagining of both the ancient and more recent history of this continent’s oldest cultures, including the Indigenous legends and creation myths of North America. The work explores the history of Cahokia, the Mississippian Mound Builder Empire of 1050-1350 CE, told through the lens of Honga, a Native emigrant who survives and thrives in a dynastic empire through its rise and fall as a civilization.

Indigenous peoples maintained the balance of a uniquely Indigenous economy while blending cosmology, mathematics, and archeoastronomy encoded in the sacred geography of ancient America.

There will be a book-signing after the panel.