About this Event
Join award-winning journalist Rebecca Clarren as she shares archival photographs and stories about both her Jewish ancestors who homesteaded on the South Dakota prairie and her family’s Lakota neighbors. Clarren’s new book The Cost of Free Land: Jews, Lakota and an American Inheritance not only exposes the myriad ways the United States privileged white immigrants like her ancestors at great cost to Native Americans, it grapples with how we living in America today can respond to this history. This lecture will be followed by a Q & A and book signing.
This hybrid event will take place on March 19 at 5:00 PM at BU Photonics Center (8 St. Mary's Street, Boston), Room 906, and will also be live-streamed on Zoom. We hope to see you there.
Please note that there are two ticket options: in person and online. If you believe you may attend in-person, register for an in-person ticket to ensure we have enough space for everyone. If you cannot attend in-person, please register for an online ticket, and we will send you a Zoom link to the live webinar.
Rebecca Clarren has been writing about the American West for more than twenty years. She is the winner of the 2021 Whiting Nonfiction Grant for her work on The Cost of Free Land. Her journalism, for which she has won the Hillman Prize, an Alicia Patterson Foundation Fellowship, and ten grants from the Fund for Investigative Journalism, has appeared in such publications as Mother Jones, High Country News, The Nation, and Indian Country Today. Her debut novel, Kickdown (Sky Horse Press, 2018), was shortlisted for the PEN/Bellwether Prize. She lives in Portland, Ore. with her family.
Event Venue & Nearby Stays
Boston University Photonics Building (PHO), 8 Saint Mary's Street, Boston, United States
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