october, 2022
*Morris: Prairie Gate Literary Festival featuring Walter LaBatte & Teresa Peterson
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University of Minnesota, Morris
- University of Minnesota, Morris
Event Details
October 6th-8th: UM Morris Prairie Gate Literary Festival (public)The Prairie Gate Literary Festival (PGLF) is a biennial celebration of writing that occurs
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Event Details
- October 6th-8th: UM Morris Prairie Gate Literary Festival (public)The Prairie Gate Literary Festival (PGLF) is a biennial celebration of writing that occurs on the campus of the University of Minnesota Morris. The mission of PGLF is to provide the University of Minnesota, Morris and Lake Region of Minnesota unique opportunities to learn from and interact with published writers and other professionals in the field of literary arts through such activities as readings, workshops, and panel discussions. Invited authors are chosen partly for the diversity of their backgrounds and styles, and are meant to appeal to a wide variety of audience members.
The Prairie Gate Literary Festival is made possible by the voters of Minnesota through a grant from the Lake Region Arts Council, thanks to a legislative appropriation from the Arts and Cultural Heritage fund. Additional support comes from the Rodney A. Briggs Library Associates, the Commission on Women, the Office of Equity & Diversity, the Native American Student Success Program, Briggs Library, and the Prairie Island Indian Community.
The Prairie Gate Literary Festival (PGLF) will be held October 6-8 2022 on the campus of the University of Minnesota Morris. The focus will be on Native North American and indigenous culture as seen through first peoples writing. Featured indigenous authors include Walter LaBatte, Thomas Peacock, Teresa Peterson, Gwen Nell Westerman and Joshua Whitehead. All will be participating in public readings, panel discussions and free Craft Talk Workshops. Thomas Peacock, a Minnesota Book Award winner, and is the author of a dozen books on Ojibwe history and culture, Native education, racism, and fiction. Gwen Nell Westerman is the current poet laureate of Minnesota. Joshua Whitehead is a two-spirit poet and novelist from Canada. Teresa Peterson and Walter LaBatte are co-authors of Voices from Pejuhutazizi: Dakota Stories and Storytellers. Peterson is an alum of UMN Morris.
Walter LaBatte & Teresa Peterson will be speaking about their novel Voices from Pejuhutazizi: Dakota Stories and Storytellers. Teresa Peterson received a SMAC grant for promotion and book tours. - “This activity is made possible by the voters of Minnesota through a grant from the Southwest Minnesota Arts Council, thanks to a legislative appropriation from the arts and cultural heritage fund.”
- About the book: Through five generations at Pejuhutazizi K'api, The Place Where They Dig the Yellow Medicine, the family of Tasina Susbeca Win has told stories—stories of events from long ago, stories from their own lives, cultural stories, and oral history from 1862 and before. These stories bring people together, transmit traditions, teach how to behave, and deliver heroes (especially those who do not appear in school or history books). They reconcile, providing opportunity to make things right, and they reveal place, as this land we walk on is full of narrative and significance; they entertain, bringing delight to listeners. Finally, stories provide belonging, as they offer connections and nurture humanity. Tasina Susbeca Win, known as Susbe, was probably born in the 1850s. She told stories to her son-in-law, Fred Pearsall, in the 1910s; Fred wrote them down for his daughters in the 1950s. Susbe’s great-grandson Walter LaBatte grew up at Pejuhutazizi (also known as the Upper Sioux Community) in the 1950s, listening to elders and remembering their stories—and then lived his own adventures and became a storyteller. This stunning collection of stories is gathered here by Fred’s great-grandaughter Teresa Peterson, who tells her own story of listening, learning, and belonging.
Time
october 6 (Thursday) - 8 (Saturday)
Location
University of Minnesota, Morris
University of Minnesota, Morris
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