Kevin Mason to host Cody Seaboy of the Sisseton and Wahpeton Sioux Tribe at The Prairie Heritage Center, Peterson, IA.

This mostly a listening oriented event. Attendees are expected to show respect to speakers and other attendees. A curated community Q&A will conclude the event.

Kevin Mason is a rural and environmental historian of the American Midwest. After earning his PhD at Iowa State University, he served as an Associate Professor of History at Waldorf University. Mason will join the University of Northern Iowa in fall 2025 as an Assistant Professor of History. Mason also runs the digital humanities project Notes on Iowa, serves on the Board of Directors for Humanities Iowa, and serves on the Board of Trustees for the State Historical Society of Iowa. An award-winning author, Mason's forthcoming book Fields of Change: The 1st United States Dragoons and Iowa's Environmental Transformation is due out on Michigan State University Press in 2026.

Dr. Kevin Mason