Native Provenance: Stories of Chance and Survivance

Date: 

Wednesday, May 3, 2023, 5:00pm

Location: 

Barker Center, Room 133

bowls of berries, leaves, and petals

NATIVE CULTURES OF THE AMERICAS

SPEAKER: Gerald Vizenor

Gerald Vizenor is a citizen of the White Earth Nation and a retired professor of American Studies at the University of California, Berkeley. He has published more than thirty books, and his recent publications include a collection of essays, Native Provenance: The Betrayal of Cultural Creativity, three interrelated historical novels, Blue Ravens, Native Tributes, and Satie on the Seine: Letters to the Heirs of the Fur Trade. Waiting for Wovoka: Envoys of Good Cheer and Liberty is scheduled for publication by Wesleyan University Press in Spring 2023.