The NMAI is pleased to announce that the Native Writers series, in its fourth year, is now the Vine Deloria, Jr. Native Writers Series. Vine Deloria, Jr. (Standing Rock Sioux), who died in 2005 at the age of 73, was “our ranking scholar and intellectual light,” according to outgoing NMAI director, Rick West Jr. Author of such seminal works as Custer Died for Your Sins and God is Red, Deloria was the first guest on the Native Writers series in October 2004.
Presented monthly, September through May, the series features emerging and well-known Native writers from the Americas, including historians, philosophers, journalists, poets, playwrights, children’s authors, and more.
The programs are free and open to the public; no tickets or reservations are required.
NEW! CD features NMAI’s Native Writers Series
To celebrate the fourth season of the Native Writers Series, the NMAI Publications and Cultural Arts offices have co-produced a CD anthology entitled Pulling Down the Clouds: Contemporary Native Writers Read Their Work at the National Museum of the American Indian. This compilation features live readings from 15 renowned writers, including N. Scott Momaday, Louise Erdrich, Ofelia Zepeda, and Joy Harjo. For more information visit NMAI's Bookshop.
