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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Saturday, 20 October 2007
Simon Ortiz will be giving a public talk on November 29 at 6:30 pm, hosted by us. And on Friday, November 30, he will meet with us in seminar for exciting discussions about the importance of tribal colleges in the direction of Native American literature. Simon Ortiz is a noted scholar and activist intellectual. He is a writer, poet, and storyteller from the Acoma Pueblo in New Mexico. Simon has been a major voices in Native American literature for more than 35 years, and among the first authors in the 1960s to be published as a contemporary Native American writer of poetry and fiction. He was the author of the seminal essay published in MELUS in 1981 called "Towards a National Indian Literature: Cultural Authenticity in Nationalism” that took Native American literature and criticism to a new and important direction, which scholars now call American Indian Literary Nationalism. Simon has been active in Native American tribal issues and especially in education on reservations. He is one of Diné College’s former professors.
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