The Frontier of Native American Literature: IMAGINATIVE PATHS TO DISCOVERY

Diné College Seminars Funded by a Grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities(See note below.)

PROJECT DESCRIPTION: Diné College faculty are discussing Native American literature and ways to use it across the curricula to advance active learning in diverse fields and as a way to challenge students to be critical writers in those fields. We are reading works in Native fiction and theory to provide faculty with an opportunity for intellectual interaction, to share teaching strategies, and to understand the complex relation tribal colleges have to Native literature and how humanities can create a vibrant, challenging intellectual climate for a community of learners.

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Sunday, 14 October 2007
From Cristine Soliz -- I opened our first meeting in Farmington on Oct 12 at 4 p.m. Not everyone was on time, but this was understandable because of the meetings in Shiprock. I spoke about the Web site going up and its development, and about Rain Silverhawk’s help with it and showed a printout of what he was designing with my input. I’m still working on the content and would appreciate input, suggestions, ideas, or questions about how it will work or what you all hope to see on the site. Handouts included a form on syllabus builders that will work in connection with the annotated bibliography (so-called) and short summaries on 2 texts each that we were supposed to do last time – so-called because it did not get done, but I will get these up on the web site. Erik Bitsui added several categories to the range of courses our project hopes to make suggestions for in terms of literary texts for use in those classes. Developmental Reading, Poetry, History, and Creative Writing. A handout on anthologies as culture makers from the Princeton University website was emailed in a PDF. Another handout was a text on Orality and Literacy, which we are also to read for next time and on which I gave a short summary. It is a comparison of the cosmologies and cultural contexts for oral and literate cultures... (Please click on "Meeting Notes Continued" below.)
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