Lunchbox Lecture: All You Wanted to Know About Native Petitioners & Then Some!

Date and Time

• Tuesday, Nov 18, 2025  12pm - 1pm

Location

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On November 18 at 12:00 p.m., Dr. Katrina Jagodinsky, Associate Professor of History at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln, will present her research on Indigenous litigants in Nebraska and the Great Plains during the November Lunchbox Lecture at the Nebraska History Museum. Her current project, Petitioning for Freedom: Habeas Corpus in the American West, 1812-1924 adds vital context to Nebraska’s notorious 1879 Standing Bear case, which was neither the first nor last habeas petition to challenge reservation confinement. After featuring a handful of Indigenous cases, Dr. Jagodinsky will invite questions from the audience.

Event admission is free. LNKTV will record the lecture and make it available to the public.

Special thanks to the Nebraska State Historical Society Foundation for providing funding for this event and the recording to broadcast on LNKTV.

About Dr. Katrina Jajodinsky
Jagodinsky is Associate Professor of History at University of Nebraska Lincoln. She is author of the award-winning book, Legal Codes & Talking Trees: Indigenous Women’s Sovereignty in the Sonoran and Puget Sound Borderlands, 1854-1945 from Yale University Press, and has recently launched an award-winning digital database called Petitioning for Freedom: Habeas Corpus in the American West, 1812-1924 that links thousands of petitioners who resisted slavery, colonialism, coverture, deportation, institutionalization, and incarceration (petitioningforfreedom.unl.edu). She is also founder of the Digital Legal Research Lab, which trains students in legal research using digital tools at UNL.