Wakara Remains

Max Mueller and Forrest Cuch discuss Max’s recent book Wakara’s 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’s America as “rich in detail and subtle in analysis... [it is] a classic page-turner that grabs a reader and won’t let go.”

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’s Council for Hope.