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Rediscovering America through an Indigenous Lens
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Speaker: Deborah Jackson Taffa
In a nation currently debating what it means to “belong,” how does it feel to be a tribally enrolled citizen with ancestral ties to the Indigenous concept of democracy? Join author, Deborah Jackson Taffa, author of Whiskey Tender—an intellectually vulnerable memoir that has been described by the Washington Post as “a distinctly American book for a country afraid of its own history”—as she speaks to oft forgotten histories. Deborah will address the impact of various governmental policies on her family over three generations. From the nuclear colonization of her ancestral homelands to Indian boarding schools and the Indian Relocation Act, she will chronicle her coming-of-age in the context of a question: is America still, or has it ever been, a meritocracy? By rediscovering American history through an Indigenous lens, she proposes we take broad steps toward healing as a nation.
Host Village: Northwest Neighbors Village
Limited to 100.
Registration is required by November 7, 2024.
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