University of Nebraska Lincoln

Faculty Member, Department of History and Institute of Ethnic Studies-- Indigenous Studies

Associate Professor

Arts and Sciences

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Professor Akers is an enrolled tribal member of the Choctaw Nation of Oklahoma. Her research specialties include American Indian Studies, Indigenous Women, Global Indigenous Peoples, Genocide in the US, Comparative Colonization, Native Peoples of North America, Human Trafficking, race, gender, and ethnicity, and Decolonization Studies. She is active in the fight against Human Trafficking, and has conducted a major research project on Domestic Sex Trafficking of juveniles in Nebraska, and is currently engaged in producing a manuscript on her findings. In addition, she has published two books and many articles and book chapters on Native Americans and Indian-US relations.

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