The 2025 Robert F. Berkhofer Lecture will be streamed live through Zoom.
Friday, February 21, 2025, Stream starts at 7:00 PM
Passcode: 546098
University of Michigan Native American Studies Presents:
The 2025 Robert F. Berkhofer Lecture
The Next Great Battle - Renewing the Fight for Self-Determination
An Evening with Mark Trahant,
February 21, 2025
7:00 – 9:30 PM:
Great Lakes Room, Palmer Commons
University of Michigan central campus
100 Washtenaw Ave, Ann Arbor, MI 48109
Mark Trahant, eminent journalist, author, and founding editor of Indian Country Today, will deliver the 2025 Robert F. Berkhofer Lecture in Native American Studies. Over a career spanning nearly four decades, Mr. Trahant has worked across newspaper, radio, television, video production, and digital media. He has written more than one thousand stories and three books. He has worked at The Seattle Times, The Arizona Republic, The Salt Lake Tribune, Moscow-Pullman Daily News, The Navajo Times, Navajo NationToday, and the Sho-Ban News. He has held endowed chairs at the University of North Dakota and the University of Alaska Anchorage. He is a former president of the Native American Journalists Association and a board member for Vision Maker Media.
Among numerous accolades, Mr. Trahant was nominated for a Pulitzer Prize for National Reporting in 1988 for a series of articles that profiled corruption and mismanagement in Federal Indian programs and helped generate a Senate investigation. He was elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 2017 and honored by the National Native American Hall of Fame in 2023. He has held endowed chairs at the University of North Dakota and the University of Alaska Anchorage. He is a former president of the Native American Journalists Association and a board member for Vision Maker Media, a prominent funding vehicle for Native films and media.
Mr. Trahant is a member of Idahoʻs Shoshone-Bannock Tribe.
The Robert F. Berkhofer Lecture is an annual event named after former U-M professor Robert Berkhofer, a leading figure in the development of Native American Studies. The Tomshack Family Fund (formerly the Brenner Family Fund) generously supports the lecture, which is a key moment for engaging in dialogue with influential Native American and Indigenous voices each year.
Reception to Follow.
Free and Open to the Public.
Registration is not mandatory but is encouraged.
The Berkhofer Lecture is in conjunction with the following symposium:
