White Earth to Picardy: Native Americans & the First World War in France

Discussing the service of Natives in the American Expeditionary Forces in France, selective service, debates of segregation and historical scenes from his new novel "Blue Ravens".

October 21, 2014
4:30 pm - 6:00 pm
Location
Room 001, Rockefeller Center
Sponsored by
Native American and Indigenous Studies
Audience
Public
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Sheila Laplante

GERALD VIZENOR           

Gerald Vizenor is Professor Emeritus of American Studies at the University of California, Berkeley.  He is a citizen of the White Earth Nation, and has published more than thirty books, including Native Liberty: Natural Reason and Cultural Survivance, Survivance: Narratives of Native Presence, Native Storiers, Father Meme, Fugitive Poses: Native American Indian Scenes of Absence and Presence, Hiroshima Bugi: Atomu 57, Shrouds of White Earth, and The White Earth Nation: Ratification of a Native Democratic Constitution. 

His most recent publications are Blue Ravens, a historical novel about Native American Indians who served in the First World War in France, and Favor of Crows: New and Collected Haiku. Vizenor received an American Book Award for Griever: An American Monkey King in China, and for Chair of Tears, the Western Literature Association Distinguished Achievement Award, and the Lifetime Literary Achievement Award from the Native Writer's Circle of the Americas.   

This event is sponsored by the Native American Program at Dartmouth College through the support of the Edward and Molly Scheu Fund.

Location
Room 001, Rockefeller Center
Sponsored by
Native American and Indigenous Studies
Audience
Public
More information
Sheila Laplante