Linda Clemmons is a professor of 19th-century American and Native American history and the current director of the Honors Program at Illinois State University in Normal, Illinois.  She is the author of Dakota in Exile and Conflicted Mission. Her latest book is titled Unrepentant Dakota Woman: Angelique Renville and the Struggle for Indigenous Identity, 1845-1876.  All of her works examine the interaction of Protestant missionaries and Dakota families in the nineteenth century.

Featured title: Unrepentant Dakota Woman: Angelique Renville and the Struggle for Indigenous Identity, 1845-1876

Website: https://cas.illinoisstate.edu/faculty_staff/profile.php?ulid=lmclemm

LINDA’S EVENTS:

• Friday, Sept. 22 @ 2:00 p.m. – Unrepentant Dakota Woman: Telling Angelique Renville’s Story – St. John’s Episcopal Church, Sanctuary
• Friday, Sept. 22 @ 4:30 p.m. – Author Signing Event – The Lodge, Bullock & Roosevelt Rooms

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