CURRICULUM & EDU EVENTS | Nanette Kelley

Educational Event Coordinator

Concept Designer & Coordinator for outdoor education events creative placemaking, and Traditional Ecological Knowledge (TEK).

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Team Leader, Site Liaison, and Educational Event Coordinator, McKinleyville Land Trust Dow’s Prairie Educational Wetland US Fish & Wildlife Schoolyard Habitat. Educational facilitator for educators to teach in a natural environment. Project coordinator, grants and proposals, site liaison, and site restoration from inception to completion of the U.S. Fish & Wildlife Schoolyard Habitat, McKinleyville Land Trust Dow’s Prairie Educational Wetland, McKinleyville, CA.

Speaker & Event coordinator including wildlife, ecology, and natural history. ("Al the Owl" with Linda Parkinson of the Humboldt Wildlife Care Center Raptor Education Team), Dow's Prairie Elementary School, CA.

Outdoor education curriculum facilitator: Indigenous peoples’ educational botanical area and a multilingual plant guide creation for cultural and traditional arts outreach to provide student access to the natural environment, culture, arts, and language. (Sign project with Eagle Scouts & McKinleyville High School.)

Community Public Relations & bridge builder with local tribes, other government agencies, and NGOs including creation of cultural, art, and environmental education outreach: (former Wiyot cultural director/ current Tolowa Dee-ni’ Nation’s Chief Governance Officer Briannon Fraley demonstrates acorn processing to second graders), Dow’s Prairie Elementary School, CA.

McKinleyville Land Trust Dow’s Prairie Educational Wetland brochure design.

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Educational Panel Concept, Coordination, Event Production & Direction, and poster design by Nanette Kelley. Allan Houser Sculpture Celebration for Hunter’s Vision: Grandson of the Apache chief who was Geronimo’s interpreter, Houser was the first “Oklahoma Cultural Ambassador” to be designated by the Oklahoma Arts Council. Speakers: Cherokee Councilman Keith Austin, RSU President Dr. Larry Rice, Keynote speaker Cherokee National Treasure and ceramicist Bill Glass Sr., and Mark Dolph, Associate Curator of History at the Gilcrease Museum. Lecture production was also utilized for Native American Studies Class Curriculum including air dates on RSU Public TV, OK.

Educational Concept, Curriculum Coordination, Lecture Production & Direction, and poster design by Nanette Kelley.

Educational Panel Concept, Coordination, and Event Production & Direction, and poster design by Nanette Kelley. Lecture production was also utilized for Native American Studies Class Curriculum including air dates on RSU Public Television, Claremore, OK.

DR. Andrea Hunter

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Osage Nation Tribal Historic Preservation Officer

Part I. Prehistory/ Protohistory of the Osage: "Historic Osage Occupation of Present-day Claremore and Rogers County" by Dr. Andrea Hunter, Osage Nation Historic Tribal Historic Preservation Officer and Osage tribal member: First Native American to receive a Ph.D. in Anthropology with an expertise in Archaeology. Served for seventeen years as a Professor of Anthropology at Northern Arizona University. Appointee to the Repatriation Review Committee Smithsonian Institution’s National Museum of Natural History. Ph.D., University of Missouri-Columbia. Co-author Saving Sugarloaf Mound in St. Louis.

DR. Garrick Bailey

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University of Tulsa Anthropology Professor, social anthropologist

Part II. Black Dog and Claremore camps, camps during buffalo hunts, the cross-timbers & trails of the Osage: "Historic Osage Occupation of Present-day Claremore and Rogers County" by Dr. Garrick Bailey Professor of Anthropology Henry Kendall College of Arts & Sciences at the University of Tulsa: A social anthropologist with primary interests in globalization, ethnic identity, ethnic conflict, socio-cultural adaption, economic change, material culture, art, and ethnohistory. His primary research is in contemporary American Indians of the United States and Canada, the historic tribes of the prairie/plains and the southwest with special interest on the Osage and Navajo. Ph.D., University of Oregon. Co-author Art of the Osage.

DR. Daniel Swan

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Senior Ethnologist and Curator of Ethnology for Sam Noble Museum of Natural History and Professor of Anthropology at the University of Oklahoma

Part III. Present day Osage, culture, and religion: "Historic Osage Occupation of Present-day Claremore and Rogers County" by Dr. Daniel Swan with expertise in Native North America, heritage construction, history and expressive culture of the Peyote religion, museum anthropology, and theories of materiality. Ph.D., University of Oklahoma. Co-author Art of the Osage. .

"Historic Osage Occupation of Present-day Claremore and Rogers County"

Educational Panel Concept, Event Coordination, Video Produced, and Directed

by Nanette Kelley

Production/footage was utilized for RSU Native American Studies Class Curriculum including air dates on RSU Public Television, Claremore, OK, spring, 2018.