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Art & Power: Centering the Voices of Native Artists

Native American Student Community Center 710 Southwest Jackson Street, Portland, OR, United States

This event is co-sponsored by PSU College of Arts. How are Native artists reclaiming space and building community in Portland? What are the current successes and challenges? How can art institutions better support, celebrate, and amplify the voices of Native artists and communities? Join us for the last Art & Power of 2018 as we listen, learn, and reflect with Portland-based artists, Anthony Hudson, Jacqueline Keeler, and Rose High Bear as they discuss their experience navigating Portland as Native peoples and practicing artists and the intersection of these and other identities. Please contact Humberto Marquez Mendez at hmarquezmendez@racc.org if you have any questions or need accommodations to fully participate in this program. Art & Power is RACC’s newest conversation series focused on the experiences of…

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Liz Prato in Conversation with Jacqueline Keeler

Broadway Books 1714 NE Broadway, Portland, OR, United States

We welcome Liz Prato, author of Volcanoes, Palm Trees, and Privilege: Essays on Hawaiʻi, in conversation with Jacqueline Keeler at 7 pm on Thursday, September 12th. Volcanoes, Palm Trees, and Privilege, published by Overcup Press, explores what it means to be a white tourist in a seeming paradise that has been formed – and largely destroyed – by white outsiders. Hawaiian history, pop culture, and contemporary affairs are woven with personal narrative in fifteen essays that examine how the touristic ideal of Hawai’i came to be. In the book, Prato examines her multi-layered relationship with Hawai’i and her soul connection with this group of islands. Author Lidia Yuknavitch describes the book as “a love letter to the land and people of Hawai’i.” Prato will read…

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A Frayed Knot / AFRAID NOT – JACQUELINE KEELER: READING + PRESENTATION

C3:Initiative 412 NW 8th Ave, Portland, OR, United States

Join us for a presentation of a new essay by writer Jacqueline Keeler, created in response to Cannupa Hanska Luger's exhibition, A Frayed Knot / AFRAID NOT. This is a free, open to the public event. ABOUT THE WRITER Jacqueline Keeler is a Diné/Ihanktonwan Dakota writer. Her book The Edge of Morning: Native Voices Speak for the Bears Ears is available from Torrey House Press and the forthcoming Standing Rock to the Bundy Standoff: Occupation, Native Sovereignty, and the Fight for Sacred Landscapes will be released next year. ABOUT THE EXHIBITION A Frayed Knot There is a line, that spans across time in a continuum. This line is the record of our existence and is woven into the very fabric of being. But this line, through…

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Simon Tam in Conversation With Jacqueline Keeler

Powell's City of Books 1005 W Burnside Street, Portland, OR, United States

When Simon Tam started an Asian American dance rock band called The Slants, he didn't realize that he was starting an entire movement around freedom of expression and discussions on identity. But when Tam applied to register a trademark on the band's name, the government dragged him all the way to the Supreme Court. Tam’s Slanted (Troublemaker Press) provides a raw look at our legal system with unflinching honesty and offers timely insights on freedom of speech, how to connect with others we disagree with, and the power of music. Tam will be joined in conversation by Jacqueline Keeler, Diné/Ihanktonwan Dakota author and cofounder of Eradicating Offensive Native Mascotry.

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Tiffany Midge in Conversation With Jacqueline Keeler

Powell's City of Books 1005 W Burnside Street, Portland, OR, United States

Why is there no Native woman David Sedaris? Or Native Anne Lamott? Humor categories in publishing are packed with books by funny women and humorous sociocultural-political commentary – but no Native women. There are presumably more important concerns in Indian Country. More important than humor? Among the Diné/Navajo, a ceremony is held in honor of a baby’s first laugh. While the context is different, it nonetheless reminds us that laughter is precious, even sacred. Bury My Heart at Chuck E. Cheese’s (Bison) is a powerful and compelling collection of Tiffany Midge’s musings on life, politics, and identity as a Native woman in America. Artfully blending sly humor, social commentary, and meditations on love and loss, Midge weaves short, standalone musings into a memoir that stares…

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Livestream Reading: Jacqueline Keeler

Online N/A, Portland, OR, United States

Annie Bloom's welcomes back Portland author Jacqueline Keeler for a livestream reading from her new book, Standoff: Standing Rock, the Bundy Movement, and the American Story of Sacred Lands. Keeler will be joined in conversation with Bob Sallinger, Director of Conservation at Portland Audubon Society. Register here: https://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZ0rcOuvpjgjEt37436YeI1-37-jXcyUtFaS About the book: The Bundy takeover of Oregon's Malheur Wildlife Refuge and the Standing Rock Sioux Tribe's standoff against an oil pipeline in North Dakota are two sides of the same story that created America and its deep-rooted cultural conflicts. Through a compelling comparison of conflicting beliefs and legal systems, Keeler explores whether the West has really been won—and for whom. "Jacqueline Keeler, a master storyteller and reporter, crafts a knotty skein, twining together family traditions, Native…

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