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Free book discussions with visiting humanities scholars. The theme this year - Through Indigenous Story: An Invitation to Understanding focuses on literature by indigenous authors and celebrates storytelling as a powerful tool for learning and understanding. Books available now at the library!This year’s theme:
Through Indigenous Story: An Invitation to Understanding
This theme focuses on literature by indigenous authors and celebrates storytelling as a powerful tool for learning and understanding. By engaging with indigenous narratives, participants in LTAI can confront biases, deepen their appreciation for cultural resilience, and contribute to the ongoing struggle for Native sovereignty and equity. This theme aims to foster a sense of shared identity and humanity, encouraging dialogue and reflection on the richness of indigenous cultures and their enduring significance. By engaging with this theme, program participants should:
Explore storytelling as a powerful tool for reclaiming, remembering, and healing.
Engage with stories to discover narratives that differ from their own.
Learn about the experiences, challenges, tragedies, and triumphs of Indigenous peoples.
Deepen their understanding of Indigenous cultures.
January 15th 2025 at 6:30pm
The Beadworkers: Stories by Beth Piatote
Published 2020, 208 pages
Beth Piatote's luminous debut collection opens with a feast, grounding its stories in the landscapes and lifeworlds of the Native Northwest, exploring the inventive and unforgettable pattern of Native American life in the contemporary world Told with humor, subtlety, and beautiful spareness, the mixed-genre works of Beth Piatote's first collection find unifying themes in the strength of kinship, the pulse of longing, and the language of return. A woman teaches her niece to make a pair of beaded earrings, while ruminating on a fractured relationship. An eleven-year-old girl narrates the unfolding of the Fish Wars in the 1960s, as her family is gradually drawn to the front lines of the conflict. In 1890, as tensions escalate at Wounded Knee, two young men at college, one French and the other Lakota, each contemplate a death in the family. In the final, haunting piece, a Nez Perce/Cayuse family is torn apart as they debate the fate of ancestral remains in a moving revision of the Greek tragedy Antigone. Formally inventive, witty, and generous, the works in this singular debut collection draw on Indigenous aesthetics and forms to offer a powerful, sustaining vision of Native life in the Americas.
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218 E Park St, McCall, ID, United States, Idaho 83638
