Sunday, February 17, 2008
Native American conference/Extra credit opportunity
Here is the information (finally) on the Native American Writers Conference I've been telling you about where Debbie Reese will be speaking. http://aisp.msu.edu/returning_the_gift.html It is titled "Returning the Gift" and takes place March 13-15 (NOT 14-16 as I said previously). The conference takes place at the MSU Union, and the cost to students is $20--there are many sessions that look appealing to me, but I will be attending a conference on Young Adult literature at WMU on the 14th, so I will only be able to attend the open reading on Thursday evening, which is open to the community and free. The link above will give you full information. Debbie Reese (and 9 others) will be reading from their work. If you also choose to attend this reading, (and write a one page paper or a comparable blog entry) on the experience, you can recieve up to 2 pts of extra credit.
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Hello, all,
I'm way into technology... I have several "google news alerts" set up. Whenever the words "Chief Illiniwek" or "Nambe" (my tribe) or... "American Indians in Children's Literature" is located by the internet spiders that crawl thru the web, Google sends me an alert. It's very cool.
That is how I made my way to Sara L's blog post.
So! Yes, I'll be up there for Returning the Gift. You read my article, I'm guessing, either from Wikipedia, or, maybe the one that was in the Oxford encyclopedia?
Or, was it the one in Harris' book?
I'm getting an award that will be presented at the conference. Yeah! Hurray! It is for my blog.
Technically, officially, etc., blog writing is not validated (yet) by "the academy." It's actually quite a risk for me to be doing it. I ought to be writing articles for journals and books, and a book, too. I'm doing that kind of writing, but the blog is so powerful! So many read it, and USE it in book selection, in teaching... It puts me in a quandry.
If any of you do get to the conference, please approach me and say hello. I'd love to meet you.
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