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X-WR-CALNAME:Native American Stories – Greg Sarris: A Reading\, Conversat
 ion & Book Signing
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DESCRIPTION:This April\, Greg Sarris\, tribal leader\, university professor
 \, playwright\, producer\, and award-winning author\, published The Forget
 ters\, a boundary-pushing new work that explores themes of memory\, surviv
 al\, connection\, and environmental preservation. The book’s emphasis on
  environmental stewardship mirrors Greg’s work as Tribal Chairman\; Fede
 rated Indians of Graton Rancheria (FIGR) is the first Native American trib
 e to co-manage a property with the National Parks service\, and they’ve 
 donated tens of millions of dollars to environmental causes.\n\nPlanet Ear
 th Arts is bringing Greg Sarris to Stanford as a Guest Artist. He is a dis
 tinguished Stanford alumnus (M.A. 81’\, Ph.D 89’) where he received a 
 1988-89 Walter Gores Award for excellence in teaching while a graduate stu
 dent. He was also a 1979-80 Wallace Stegner Fellow.\n\nThe Forgetters is n
 arrated by twin sisters—perhaps they’re human women\, perhaps they’r
 e crows—Answer Woman and Question Woman. Answer Woman can tell all the s
 tories\, but she cannot think of them unless she is asked. Question Woman 
 cannot remember a single story\, and she must always ask her questions to 
 hear them again. Together\, asking and answering\, these crow sisters shar
 e the stories of the Forgetters—people who have forgotten their roots an
 d consequently hurt the Earth and each other. \n\n“So much of this book\
 , and all of my work\, is an attempt to re-story the landscape so that we 
 can know our place in it and our responsibility to it.”\n—Greg Sarris 
 on The Forgetters\n\nGreg Sarris will read from his astonishing new collec
 tion of stories that weave together elements of Southern Pomo and Coast Mi
 wok creation stories with the contemporary world. Following the reading\, 
 he will have an illuminating conversation with another of Stanford’s not
 ed writers and teachers\, Sterling HolyWhiteMountain. The evening will cul
 minate in a book signing.\n \nThis event is co-sponsored by The Bill Lane 
 Center for the American West\, Continuing Studies\, Creative Writing Progr
 am\, Stanford Humanities Center\, Institute for Diversity in the Arts\, Na
 tive American Studies Program\, and the Native American Cultural Center\, 
 in collaboration with Planet Earth Arts/National Center for New Plays at S
 tanford.\n \nFor more information about Greg and his books\, please visit 
 here.
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LOCATION:GSB Knight - Arbuckle / Cemex\, CEMEX Auditorium
SUMMARY:Native American Stories – Greg Sarris: A Reading\, Conversation &
  Book Signing
URL;VALUE=URI:https://events.stanford.edu/event/native-american-stories-gre
 g-sarris-reading-book-signing
CATEGORIES:Lecture/Presentation/Talk
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