Join Alison at the 3rd Annual Authors Under the Stars, A Literary Affair event at the Walnut Creek Library. Alison will be among 20 other Bay Area authors, including Annie Barrows, Michael Krasny, Mary Roach, and Ellen Sussman for the March 24th event. Tickets are still available. Although seats at Alison’s table are currently sold out, there will be opportunities to speak to her after dinner. Learn more about the event…
From the Heard Museum Books and More Shop Blog–
Please be sure to join the Heard Museum’s Books & More Shop in welcoming Alison Owings, author of Indian Voices: Listening to Native Americans for a signing and reading on Saturday, January 21st beginning at 10 A.M. Alison will be accompanied by Patty Talahongva, a Hopi journalist who is the subject of one chapter of the book, which should be very entertaining.
The book is a fascinating look at more than a dozen contemporary Native Americans who candidly express their views on their lives today, as well as the past and future of their respective tribes. Alison, who is a non-Native, is equally candid about exactly how much she didn’t know about American Indians when she started the research for the book.
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Heard Museum’s Books and More Shop is located at 2301 N. Central Ave.
Phoenix, AZ 85004.
For more information visit the Heard Museum’s Books and More Blog.
As we, the American public, hack through thickets of politically enhanced blogoshere-distributed demonstrations and debates about who we are — A people who embrace or reject others? A people weaned on vengeance or compassion? A people divided against others? Among ourselves? — most of us overlook one factor: the buffalo in the room.
About 2 percent of the population of this country is Native American. (No, nothing to do in the aggregate with that financially larded 1 percent.) The other 98 percent of us, whether ancestor-initiated us or newly arrived us, are from elsewhere. We came by hook or by crook, of free will or not, landing traumatized or relieved, hopeless or hopeful.
But we did not start out as “a nation of immigrants.”
We started out as trespassers.
By extension, we — certainly not the only such “we” in the world — are living on foreign occupied territory, are we not?
This is no white guilt screed, no p.c. apologia, but let us face facts, and what better time to do so than November aka Native American Heritage Month? Or, as a Lakota/Navajo wag of my acquaintance calls it, Rent-an-Indian Month. -Read More
The latest review of Indian Voices comes from “News from Native California.” It is so well-written, so insightful, and “got” what others didn’t, this author is very grateful. And just a minute while I try to figure how to link to it….
What an exciting lineup Amy Huberland and her colleagues have put together for this conference, which runs from October 27th through 30th on the campus of Chico State University.
Hope nobody leaves early; I am literally the last speaker — from 11:10 to 11:30 a.m. in Colusa 100A, on the subject of “Stories behind the (mostly wonderful) decade of work to research and write INDIAN VOICES: LISTENING TO NATIVE AMERICANS.” For this occasion, I’ve carefully assembled some 25 (unpublished) photographs of the interviewees, from Maine to Hawai’i. All are welcome, although last I heard the conference is sold out. This makes me very happy. Do come by and say hello! And yes, I shall be toting a few copies of the book in case anybody wants to buy one.
