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| Simon Ortiz -- poet,
fiction writer, essayist, and storyteller - is internationally known as one of America's finest writers. He has won lifetime achievement awards from the Western States Arts Federation and from the Worldcraft Circle of Native Writers; has received the New Mexico Governor's Award for Excellence in Art; and awards from the National Endowment of the Arts and the Lila Wallace-Reader's Digest Fund; and Was honored at a White House Salute to American Poets and Poetry. A native Of Acoma Pueblo, Ortiz teaches at the University of Toronto. |
Indigenous Integrity, Wholeness,
and Literature:
Monday-Friday May
12-16, 2003 |
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Indigenous Peoples of the Americas are many and varied. They live where they have always lived from the Arctic Circle to the tip of South America. Though vastly diminished in numbers since they were introduced to and impacted upon by European civilization and socialization beginning more than 500 years ago, Indigenous Peoples are still thriving. Although much changed and continually changing-there is no doubt about that-they continue to have a sense of responsibility to the vast lands they call their homeland, namely North, Central, and South America. Through a reading of several novels and poetry collections by Native writers and poets, the seminar participants will concern themselves with how the general western hemispheric and world population must also consider a working concept of themselves that will insure their own integrity and wholeness. |
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The Class Reading List: (These books and articles supplied
by OSLEP)
* Ceremony, Leslie Marmon Silko, novel |