| Details: | Blaire Morseau is a citizen of the Pokagon Band of Potawatomi with ancestral ties to the Grand River Bands of Ottawa, and an Assistant Professor in the Department of Religious Studies at Michigan State University. In this presentation, she will discuss a recently released edited volume featuring the collection of rare antique birch bark books written by nineteenth century Potawatomi author, Simon Pokagon titled, As Sacred to Us: Simon Pokagon’s Birch Bark Stories in their Contexts. Experts in Native literary traditions, history, Algonquian languages, the Michigan landscape, and materials conservation illuminate the thousands of years of Indigenous knowledge that Pokagon elevated in his stories. |
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Sarah and Daniel Opperman Auditorium, Park Library 250 E. Preston St. Mt. Pleasant, MI |
| Sponsor: | Clarke Historical Library |
| Contact: | Carrie Marsh clarke@cmich.edu 989-774-3864 |