Calendar
Fall 2008
Current Events
Wednesday, August 20, at the Native American House,
8:30 a.m.-7:00 p.m.
Native Student Orientation
A very special welcome from the Native American House to the new students who will be joining the Illinois community.
By taking advantage of this opportunity, you will be able to:
- Beat the move-in day rush by moving in to your dorm room early
- Meet with your academic advisor
- Meet one-on-one with a financial aid advisor
- Meet Native students, faculty, and staff here at the U of I
All family members are welcome to join in on this experience with you
For more information, contact Ashley Tsosie-Mahieu by email at atsosie2@uiuc.edu or by phone at (217) 333-0050.
This event was made possible by the Native American House and the Office of the Dean of Students
Sunday, August 24 at the Native American House, 4-6 pm
I-Celebrate on Nevada Street
Come join us for food, entertainment, and tours of the Cultural Centers on Nevada Street. Enjoy the music, grab a bite to eat, and learn about programs offered at the Cultural Centers and other departments. Music, dancing, and other performances will be featured on the street stage throughout the afternoon. You don't want to miss this event!
Saturday, October 4
The Youth Literature Festival
The Youth Literature Festival will take place October 2-4, 2008 encompassing the greater Champaign-Urbana area. The first two days (Thursday, October 2 and Friday, October 3) will be comprised of author visits to school districts in east Central Illinois (Urbana, Champaign, Rantoul, Paxton-Buckley-Loda, among others), culminating in a day of celebration and activities for the community at large on Saturday, October 4.
The events on Saturday, October 4 will feature entertainment for children and adults of all ages, from storytelling, puppetry, readings, lectures, book signings, and discussions featuring the Festival authors and illustrators, to a poetry cafe for middle and high school students, from museum and library exhibits at Krannert Art Museum and Orpheum Children's Museum, to student musical performances.
The Festival will include many talented writers including Cynthia Leitich Smith and Richard Van Camp.
For more information about the Festival, please click here.
Sponsored by the College of Education
Monday and Tuesday, October 27 and 28
Sherwin Bitsui: A Reading
Sherwin Bitsui will be giving a reading on campus. Details to follow.
Mr. Bitsui is originally from White Cone, Arizona, on the Navajo Reservation. Currently, he lives in Tucson, Arizona. He is Dine of the Todich'ii'nii (Bitter Water Clan), born for the Tl'izilani (Many Goats Clan).
He holds an AFA from the Institute of American Indian Arts Creative Writing Program and is currently completing his studies at the University of Arizona. He is the recipient of the 2000-01 Individual Poet Grant from the Witter Bynner Foundation for Poetry, the 1999 Truman Capote Creative Writing Fellowship, a Lannan Foundation Literary Residency Fellowship and more recently, a 2006 Whiting Writers' Award.
Sherwin has published his poems in American Poet, The Iowa Review, Frank (Paris), Lit Magazine, and elsewhere. His poems were also anthologized in Legitimate Dangers: American Poets of the New Century. Shapeshift is his first book.
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Jacki Thompson Rand, Department of History and the American Indian and Native Studies Programs, University of Iowa
Kiowa Humanity and the Invasion of the State
Jacki Thompson Rand (Choctaw) holds a joint appointment with the Department of History and the American Indian and Native Studies Programs at the University of Iowa. Professor Rand's field of research is the history of Native North America, with special interests in reservation economy and society, material culture, and U.S. Indian policy. Her forthcoming book, Kiowa Humanity and the Invasion of the State, examines prevailing Kiowa community social values between the mid-nineteenth and early twentieth-century, looking at the how the Kiowa people actively responded to US government efforts to control them.
Friday, Saturday, and Sunday, November 14, 15, and 16 at the UIC Pavilion
AIC's 55th Annual November Powwow
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Upcoming
Events
Spring 2009
Friday and Saturday, January 23 and 24 at the Krannert Center, Studio Theatre, 7:30 PM
LeAnne Howe: Choctalking on Other Realities
In its premiere at Krannert Center, Choctalking, a one-woman theatrical production, evokes the richness and fluidity of Howe's prose and her particular sense of place, which, according to literary critic Craig S. Womack, himself Oklahoma Creek-Cherokee, resides in "intersecting and competing jurisdictions, the tensions going in and out of borders, in short, disputes over who constitutes the indigenes of a given geography."
Indeed, geography is at the heart of both Howe's exploration of landscapes and the journey that she and her characters traverse in Choctalking. Howe roams from the 1970s to the early 1990s, from Oklahoma City to Jerusalem and Jordan and back again, breaking through spatial and temporal constraints to connect multiple cultures and countries. The dense textures of history, fiction, and analogous cultural references will conjure a modern odyssey in which new implications of the American Indian experience will be uncovered outside the US borders.
For more information and the ticket office, click here.
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