Prof. Harry Brown to Address Local Heritage Preservation Society

March 15, 2016

Harry Brown, associate professor and chair of English at DePauw University, will be the featured speaker at the annual meeting of the Heritage Preservation Society of Putnam County.  Brown will discuss "Indiana Territory and Indian Nations" at the event, which takes place Thursday, March 17, at the Putnam County Museum.  The program is free and open to the public.

In his presentation, Dr. Brown, who is also Tenzer Family University Professor in Instructional Technology at DePauw, "will explore how Tecumseh and his brother Tenskwatawa, known as the 'Shawnee Prophet,' led a group from their tribal homeland in Ohio into western Indiana," notes the Banner-Graphic. "In 1808, they established the settlement of Prophetstown at the confluence of the Wabash and Tippecanoe rivers. Together, the brothers created a new model of Indian resistance, signaling the dawn of another phase in frontier history."

The Greencastle newspaper adds, "In 2003, Brown joined DePauw where he teaches early American literature, Native American literature and literature of the environment. He is one of a dozen orators comprising the roster of the Putnam County Bicentennial Speakers Bureau."

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Harry Brown, who holds a Ph.D. from Lehigh University, is the author of Videogames and Education: Humanistic Approaches to an Emergent Art Form, Injun Joe's Ghost: The Indian Mixed-Blood in American Writing and Golf Ball.

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