12/1/2023 0 Comments Great harvest bread omahaWants of the RNA (2) Gathering Steering Committee: The steering committee first act was to call the event a gathering and not a conference or symposium. Food caterers for the event include the Black Sheep Café (Provo, Utah), Grounds for Coffee and Great Harvest Bread Company (both in Ogden, Utah). The combined financial sponsorship of twenty-four not-for-profit history and Humanities organizations has made it possible for attendees to attend, and enjoy food together, free of charge. Eventually Ogden, Utah, was selected, because of its proximity to the 1869 Golden Spike story (see ), Ogden’s 100 plus year history as America’s railroad “junction city,” and because most importantly, Ogden was part of the vast ancestral lands of both the Shoshoni and Goshute peoples. The symposium was such a success, attendees urged that a second gathering be planned, somewhere else in the country. At that time the National Park Service - Lewis and Clark Historical Trail, the Union Pacific Museum (Council Bluffs), the University of Nebraska at Omaha (the three principal organizers), and dozens of Midwestern federally recognized sovereign tribal nations and individuals attended, the latter included (as self-described): Campo Kumeyaay Nation, Cochiti / Kiowa, Pomo / Paiute, Minnicoujou Lakota, Rosebud Sioux, Navajo Nation, Pueblo of Laguna, Hidatsa, Sièáŋǧu Lakota, Umonhon / Cherokee, Creek, Choctaw, Shawnee, and Potawatomi. The Ogden meeting is the second gathering, the first was in 2019 in Omaha, Nebraska prompted by the 150th anniversary of the completion of the transcontinental railroad. The gathering is also significant as it is Utah’s and the Wasatch Front’s first Native American directed history conference. Sponsors include the Utah Division of Indian Affairs, the Ogden Union Station and the Utah Department of Cultural & Community Engagement. The Gathering hosts are Utah’s eight federally recognized tribes: Confederated Tribes of Goshute Indians, Navajo Nation, Paiute Indian Tribe of Utah, San Juan Southern Paiute Tribe, Northwestern Band of Shoshone Nation, Skull Valley Band of Goshute, Ute Indian Tribe of the Uintah & Ouray Reservation, and White Mesa Band of the Ute Mountain Ute. Seeking to be inclusive, interdisciplinary and intergovernmental, the gathering is hosted by the Utah Division of Indian Affairs, the Ogden Union Station and the Utah Department of Culture and Community Engagement. This gathering which is national in scope has limited space (read why below). The public is invited to the event, which will take place at the Ogden Union Station, 2501 Wall Ave., on May 19-21. The Railroads in Native America Gathering, Utah’s first Native-led public history conference, is planned to amplify the voices of Indigenous scholars, leaders and students in exploring the often fraught, dynamic 160-year interaction with America’s railroad systems.
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