Wakara Remains
Max Mueller and Forrest Cuch discuss Max鈥檚 recent book Wakara鈥檚 America: The Life and Legacy of a Native Founder of the American West. Event Date: February 4, 2026 5:00-6:30 pm @ ENVD 134 (1060 18th Street) Environmental Design Building
MAX PERRY MUELLER is an associate professor in the Department of Classics and Religious Studies at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln. Mueller is a theorist and historian of race and religion in American history, with particular interest in Indigenous and African-American religious experiences, epistemologies, and cosmologies. Philip J. Deloria (Standing Rock Sioux) describes Wakara鈥檚 America as 鈥渞ich in detail and subtle in analysis... [it is] a classic page-turner that grabs a reader and won鈥檛 let go.鈥
FORREST C. CUCH is an author, spiritual leader, environmental activist, and tribal leader. He was born and raised on the Uintah and Ouray Ute Indian Reservation in northeastern Utah. Cuch is currently engaged in working with spiritual leaders to usher in the new shift in feminine consciousness known as the New Earth and calling attention to climate change and harm to Mother Earth. As part of that work, Cuch recently joined the Jane Goodall Legacy Foundation鈥檚 Council for Hope.