On June 8th, KRCB featured Alison Owings and her latest book, Indian Voices on its monthly Radio Book Club. Download and listen to the show on the KRCB website. Listen, too, as a Lakota guest praises the book, starting with the cover.
In 2005, in the course of researching Indian Voices, I interviewed a big shy guy, Ansel Deon, at Chicago’s American Indian Center. He was setting up a project to make talking sticks for second graders who were about to visit. He didn’t talk much himself, but prepared carefully for the project, laying out sticks, yarn, [...]
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Staff in the Field Museum Anthropology Department invite you to attend an informal conversation with author Alison Owings. Ms. Owings has been invited to Chicago to take part in Lit Fest and has agreed to give a reading of her new book, Indian Voices: Listening to Native Americans, at The Field Museum during her [...]
Set the Tivo! Alison will be on C-SPAN2′s Book TV as part of their live coverage of the 2011 Chicago Tribune Printers Row Lit Fest. Watch for her reading Indian Voices on June 4th at 11:00 a.m. Eastern (8:00 a.m. Pacific) http://www.booktv.org/
In the lead up to the next reading of Indian Voices: Listening to Native Americans by Alison Owings, Mercury News correspondent Georgia Rowe writes, “Indian Voices: Listening to Native Americans” by Alison Owings (Rutgers Press, $26.95, 320 pages). “Let me start with my own ignorance.” So begins Alison Owings’ captivating book about contemporary Native American [...]
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