Tag: Katie Haggstrom
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Native American Heritage Month: Qwo-Li Driskill and Transgender Days of Remembrance
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Read More: Native American Heritage Month: Qwo-Li Driskill and Transgender Days of RemembranceToday at Colorado State is Transgender Day of Remembrance. The Pride Resource Center will host a reception at 5:30 pm with the event beginning at 6:00 pm. This event will be a time for “honoring, recognition, and remembrance.” In light of this vigil and Native American Heritage Month, it’s important…
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Native American Heritage Month: David Treuer
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Read More: Native American Heritage Month: David TreuerProfessor. Writer. Critic. Academic. David Treuer was born in 1970 and is a member of the Ojibwe tribe, people who live mainly in Canada and the northern United States. They are one of the largest groups of indigenous people north of the Rio Grande. Treuer’s father Robert, a Holocaust survivor,…
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Native American Heritage Month: Janet Campbell Hale
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Read More: Native American Heritage Month: Janet Campbell HaleIf you were going to compete successfully in a white man’s world, you had to learn to play the white man’s game. It was not enough that an Indian be as good as; an Indian has to be better than. ~The Jailing of Cecelia Capture, Janet Campbell Hale Born in…
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Native American Heritage Month: Louise Erdrich
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Read More: Native American Heritage Month: Louise ErdrichLouis Erdich was born in 1954 in Little Falls, Minnesota. She was the oldest child from a large family of seven. Her parents were teachers who taught at a boarding school in Wahpeton, North Dakota, established by the Bureau of Indian Affairs. Erdich’s Native American identity comes from her mother’s…
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Native American Heritage Month: Eden Robinson
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Read More: Native American Heritage Month: Eden RobinsonEden Victoria Lena Robinson was born in 1968 in the Haisla First Nation, located in British Columbia, Canada. Robinson is part of the Haisla and Heiltsuk First Nations. As her bio on Penguin Random House Canada explains, “I was born on the same day as Edgar Allan Poe and Dolly…
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Native American Heritage Month: Leslie Marmon Silko
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Read More: Native American Heritage Month: Leslie Marmon SilkoLeslie Marmon Silko is a writer, educator and filmmaker, and someone who has helped influence the Native American Renaissance. Silko was born in 1948 in Albuquerque, New Mexico. Her identity as ¼ Laguna Pueblo influenced her childhood. She grew up on the edge of the Laguna Pueblo reservation but was…
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National American Indian Heritage Month: an Introduction and Sherman Alexie
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Read More: National American Indian Heritage Month: an Introduction and Sherman AlexieNovember is Native American Heritage Month. A Cherokee American Indian, J.C. Elliott-High Eagle, authored the legislation for American Indian Awareness Week in October of 1976 and it was signed by President Gerald R. Ford. This became the first official week of national recognition for the American Indian since the founding…
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"Beautiful Flesh," a Review
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Read More: "Beautiful Flesh," a Review~from Katie Haggstrom Last spring, CSU’s Center for Literary Publishing (CLP) released a collection of nonfiction essays titled Beautiful Flesh: A Body of Essays, edited by CLP Director Stephanie G’Schwind. As G’Schwind explains in her introduction, “With an oblique nod to Victor Frankenstein, I decided to build a body. Out of…
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Humans of Eddy: James Rankin
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Read More: Humans of Eddy: James RankinJames Rankin MA English: Literature Graduate Teaching Assistant I see that you recently attended a conference at Berkeley (San Francisco). What conference did you attend and what did you present about? I attended ASAP (Association for the Study of the Arts of the Present) hosted by the English department of…
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Filipino American History Month: N.V.M. Gonzalez
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Read More: Filipino American History Month: N.V.M. GonzalezN.V.M Gonzalez, an important icon among the Filipino literary community, feels like a fitting way to wrap up Filipino American History Month. Born in the Philippines in 1915 in the province of Oriental Mindoro, Gonzalez expressed passion for music at a young age. He learned to play the violin and…