Calendar of Events

2006-2007 Reading Together Events

Here are just a few of the exciting offerings planned for this year in conjunction with the 2006-07 theme of Navigating the Changing Terrain . More will be added shortly. Events will be held on the Lane Community College Main Campus unless otherwise noted.

If you need disability accommodations in order to attend or participate in any Reading Together event, please contact Disability Services (541) 463-5150 (voice) or 463-3079 (TTY) at least one week in advance.

People are welcome to come late or leave early as schedule permits. For additional information contact Ellen Cantor, 463-3660, cantore@lanecc.edu

Spring Term

Spring Term

LIVING TRADITIONS
NATIVE AMERICAN CULTURE: EDUCATION
AND REVITALIZATION IN OREGON

MMMoMonday April 9, 10-noon
CML (Building 19) room 104

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Here in Oregon, we are enriched by a wide range of vibrant Native American communities.  Many members of these communities devote themselves to ensuring that the traditional cultures and values of their peoples be continually explored, strengthened, and passed on.  They do this through educational programs in their communities, as well as in public schools and in higher education.  We invite you to attend a panel comprised of a dynamic and varied selection of people who do crucial work in American Indian Education and/or in tribal cultural programs:  

• Lynn Anderson--regional Indian Education Director based in Florence
• Allison Davis WhiteEyes--Indian Education Office based at OSU
• David Lewis--Confederated Tribes of Grande Ronde; Manager of the Cultural Resources Department at The Confederated Tribes of Grand Ronde
• Tom Ball-- Modoc and Klamath; UO Assistant Vice Provost for Institutional Equity & Diversity
• James Florendo--Wasco; Coordinator for Lane’s Native American Student Programs

They will be discussing the work they do, and also exploring larger questions involving the nature of cultural revitalization and recovery.  What do these terms actually mean?  In what ways should this work be pursued?  What is the varying status of cultural knowledge among the different tribes?

Eddie Little Crow
Lakota, Dakota Poet and Elder
Thursday April 19
10-noon, CML (Building 19) room 102
7:30pm World Cafe, 449 Blair, Eugene

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Eddie Little Crow (Lakota, Dakota) is a poet, former member of the American Indian Movement (AIM), and continues his work in traditional ways throughout the Northwest. As a member of the Elders Council and RED (Red Earth Descendents) in Southern Oregon, Little Crow works to keep a life in balance. He will be presenting work from a book about his life, Dreaming of a True World, A Opchine WaLa Ohkon, co-authored with antoinette nora claypoole. Talking about being Indian in a white world, the book/reading will include selections from his poetry, his history with AIM and his life lived as a Lakota--both on and off the reservation. Little Crow will talk about being Indian in a white world. His co-author, antoinette claypoole, explains: "It is best to think of him as a person coming to you to read poems, talk about surviving in these times---whether we are Indian or white. Ed has a lot to say about just staying alive, awake and present in these purification times."

Visit www.wildembers.com, click on Ed Little Crow for more information.

AReading Together Author Dan O'Brien Residency
May 2nd and 3rd

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Dan O’Brien, author of the 2006-07 Reading Together book selection, Buffalo for the Broken Heart, is a two-time winner of both the National Endowment for the Arts individual artist's grant and the Western Heritage Award. Buffalo for the Broken Heart describes his ranch’s conversion from cattle to buffalo, but even more centrally, O’Brien explores the nature of change and the transformation of his land and life.  He has been a wildlife biologist and rancher for more than thirty years, owner of the Wild Idea Buffalo Company, and one of the most celebrated falconers in America today. He was a prime mover in the restoration of Peregrine Falcons in the Rocky Mountains.  He is the author of five novels and three memoirs.  

Schedule of Public Events

Wednesday, May 2

4:10 Live interview with Tripp Sommer on KLCC's “Northwest Passage.”

7:30-9  Reading at Tsunami Books, 2585 Willamette, Eugene

Thursday, May 3 Lane Community College Main Campus

10-11:45  Performing Arts Main Stage:
Keynote reading and talk, Q&A, book sales and signing

2:30-4  CML (Building 19) room 226
Q&A/discussion, book sales and signing