CCBC Librarian Debra Sambuco has compiled a comprehensive collection of free, open-access films for us to learn more about Native American history, culture, traditions, and struggles. Please visit this CCBC resource.
We are looking for student work of any genre, in any discipline, created in response to studying The Truth about Stories by Thomas King to be featured on the CBC website and at a special presentation and reception at our Professional Development Conference in May 2021. Submit here!
Contact Professor Lauren Pollak
Did you know... that in 1879 until 1918, approximately 10,000 Native American children from 140 tribes attended Carlisle Indian Industrial School which forced children to leave their families and to give up their cultures, customs, languages, spiritual beliefs, and even their names, which led to untold psychological damage to generations of Native people. Patricia Quintero-Hall, from the Office of Intercultural Engagement, will offer her presentation to classes throughout the semester.
Contact Dr. Patricia Quintero-Hall
Warrior Women (dir. Christina D. King & Elizabeth A. Castle, 2018, 64 minutes) is the story of Madonna Thunder Hawk, an American Indian Movement leader who fought for Native liberation. Members of the community will have access to stream this award-winning film between the dates of February 18-March 4.
To receive access, contact Dr Kim Jensen
Educator-activists Lawrence Grandpre, Dr. Tiffany Locklear, and Dr. Cassandra St. Vil will describe innovative educational projects that decolonize Eurocentric curriculum and pedagogy and center the experiences of Black, Indigenous, and other students of color. Co-sponsored by the Institute for Social and Economic Justice and the Mellon Foundation Humanities for All Initiative.
Contact Dr. Nina Brown or Professor Ingrid Sabio-McLaughlin
This presentation led by Dr. Dennis Seymour (Eastern Band Cherokee) dispels common myths about Natives, past and present. Dr. Seymour will share everything you wanted to know about Indians but were afraid to ask!
Contact Professor Lauren Pollak
Janice the Griot will discuss the origins of the historical role of the griot and her personal journey to becoming a professional griot. She will tell a variety of stories and discuss storytelling as an act of resistance and a way to preserve culture and memory.
Contact Professor Ingrid Sabio-McLaughlin
Join us for an informal, engaging discussion of chapter one of The Truth about Stories. These chats will give students a chance to discuss the chapter with other students and faculty throughout the college community.
RSVP Professor Lauren Pollak, Dr. Kris Messer, Dr. Jamey Gallagher
Digawolf is a band led by Diga, a rock musician, visual artist, and cartoonist from Yellowknife, Canada. Join us for Q&A and a performance by the award-winning musician who will share insight into songwriting process, preservation of the Tlicho language, and ways of passing it on.
Contact Professor Elena Neunaber
Leonard Peltier (Lakota-Chippewa) is an activist and artist who has been in federal prison since 1977 for the murder of two FBI agents on the Pine Ridge Reservation in 1975. Join Peltier’s attorney, former U.S. District Judge, Kevin Sharp for a Q & A and discussion of the context, controversies, and flaws in the case.
Contact Dr. Kim Jensen
Poet, spoken word artist, and educator Tanaya Winder will perform and lead a creative workshop for Women in Philanthropy at CCBC’s annual luncheon. Sponsored by the Creative Writing Forum, Community Book Connection, CCBC’s Women in Philanthropy, and First Financial Federal Credit Union.
Contact Tori Burns
Join the Community Book Connection as two groups of CCBC student face off for a lively, informed debate on the case of the Lakota-Chippewa federal prisoner Leonard Peltier. Is he guilty? Did he get a fair trial? Should he be pardoned?
Contact: Dr. Kim Jensen
Sharing stories from and about their families, Professor Precious Stone will connect griot traditions in West Africa to African American storytelling, and Professor Vicki Hong Smith will introduce Pansori, single-vocalist Korean epic storytelling.
Contact: pstone@ccbcmd.edu or vhongsmith@ccbcmd.edu
Author Dina Gilio-Whitaker (Colville Confederated Tribes) will discuss her research from her book As Long as the Grass Grows: The Indigenous Fight for Environmental Justice from Colonization to Standing Rock. She is the policy director and a senior research associate at the Center for World Indigenous Studies and teaches at California State University, San Marcos.
Contact Cristina Cardona
In The Truth about Stories, Thomas King draws from Native tradition to offer a connected view of the world, where collaboration and cooperation are fundamental. Students will share stories about creating the world that they are making possible by “telling it into being.”
Contact Dr. Jamey Gallagher
Join US Poet Laureate Joy Harjo as she reads from her work and discusses her signature project, “Living Nations, Living Words, “featuring work by 47 Native Nations poets through an interactive ArcGIS Story Map and audio collection. Harjo is an internationally renowned performer and writer of the Muscogee (Creek) Nation, currently serving her second term as the 23rd Poet Laureate of the United States. Co-hosted by the Creative Writing Forum and Community Book Connection.
Contact Carr Kizzier
Following WWII, thousands of Lumbee Indians moved from their tribal homeland in North Carolina to the Baltimore neighborhoods of Upper Fells Point and Washington Hill. Today, only two active American Indian community-owned sites remain. Community- based visual artist, UMBC professor, and folklorist Ashley Minner (Lumbee) will discuss her process of mapping and reconstructing East Baltimore’s “reservation.”
Contact Professor Lauren Pollak
Join us for a moderated discussion and training on sustainable peacemaking practices with Hon. Connors, Judge, Washtenaw (MI) County Court, Hon. Demmert-Fairbanks (Tlingit-Tsimpshian), Tribal appellate justice and peacemaker; Hon. Robert Yazzie (Diné), and Brett Shelton (Oglala Lakota) Native American Rights Fund.
Contact Dr. Kim Jensen
For more information on how to get involved in the Community Book Connection, please email Dr. Kim Jensen: kjensen@ccbcmd.edu
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