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Wellbeing and Indigenous Literature in the 21st Century

Oscar Hokeah (Cherokee Nation, Kiowa Tribe of Oklahoma), fiction writer; Santee Frazier (Cherokee Nation of Oklahoma), St. Lawrence University

Mon, 12/2 · 4:30 pm6:00 pm · A17 Julis Romo Rabinowitz Building

Effron Center for the Study of America

Mellon Foundation Sawyer Seminar: Indigenous Futures in Times of Crisis

The seminar series is focused on well-being in Native communities. Throughout the year we’re inviting speakers who are discussing issues of Native American health, environmental contamination, language revitalization, freedom of press, and colonialism.

Oscar Hokeah, author of Calling for a Blanket Dance(Link is external) (2022) and winner of the 2023 PEN America Hemingway Award for a Debut Novel and Santee Frazier, poet and author of Dark Thirty (2009) and Aurum (2019) in conversation.

Sponsors
  • Effron Center for the Study of America (host)
  • Mellon Foundation
  • Native American and Indigenous Studies Initiative at Princeton
  • Department of English
  • Land, Language, and Art, a Humanities Council Global Initiative
  • Center for Collaborative History
  • New York University

 

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