09/19/2026
Constance Owle is a current RYCSF recipient:
Meet Cherokee women changing academia through First Voice research and self-representation in the field.
This Friday, September 18 at 10:30am ET in-person and via Zoom, Museum of the Cherokee People's Restoring Cherokee Perspectives: Exploring First Voice Research Methodologies, welcomes Constance Yellowtail Owl (Eastern Band of Cherokee Indians) to the conversation.
➡ REGISTER HERE for the virtual presentation: bit.ly/46Wn76t
đź‘Ą Or join us in-person: TJ Holland Education Room, Education Wing, Museum of the Cherokee People, 589 Tsali Blvd., Cherokee, NC
Constance Owl is a Presidential Graduate Fellow and PhD student in History at the University of Georgia. A citizen of the Eastern Band of Cherokee Indians from the Cherokee County community, she studies Cherokee intellectual traditions and Indigenous print culture, focusing especially on the Cherokee Phoenix newspaper.
Her research centers on translating and interpreting the paper’s Cherokee language articles to illuminate Cherokee political, cultural, and intellectual life during the Removal era.
Working closely with first language Cherokee speakers and Cherokee language specialists, she aims to enrich scholarly understandings of Cherokee governance and thought while contributing to the linguistic resources and interpretive frameworks available to Cherokee communities today.
Owl earned her MA in History from Western Carolina University in 2020 and her BA in Native American Studies from Stanford University in 2018.
This free and open-to-the-public event is presented in collaboration with Eastern Band of Cherokee Indians Tribal Historic Preservation Office (THPO) and the Cherokee Archaeological Symposium. It is made possible through the generous support of the North Carolina Arts Council.
