Wellbeing and Indigenous Literature in the 21st Century

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.

Date
Dec 2, 2024, 4:30 pm6:30 pm
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Oscar Hokeah

Book cover: Calling for a Blanket Dance

Author of Calling for a Blanket Dance (2022),
winner of the 2023 PEN America Hemingway Award
for a Debut Novel

Santee Frazier

Book cover: Aurum

Poet,
author of Dark Thirty (2009)
and Aurum (2019)

 

 

Sponsorship of an event does not constitute departmental or institutional endorsement of the specific program, speakers or views presented.

Funded by the Princeton University Humanities Council as part of the Council’s Global Initiative in Indigenous studies, “Land, Language, and Art.”

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