NALS 2011
Albuquerque, New Mexico 2011
Heid Erdrich, keynote speaker
Heid E. Erdrich is author of four poetry collections, most recently National Monuments from Michigan State University Press. Cell Traffic: New and Selected Poems is forthcoming in 2012. Heid Erdrich also authored The Mother's Tongue, Salt Publishing's Earthworks series, and co-edited Sister Nations: Native American Women on Community, Minnesota Historical Society Press. Heid won the Minnesota Book Award in 2009 for her book of poetry National Monuments.
Linda LeGarde Grover, keynote speaker
Linda LeGarde Grover is an assistant professor of American Indian studies at the University of Minnesota Duluth. She is the coauthor of A Childhood in Minnesota: Exploring the Lives of Ojibwe and Immigrant Families 1880–1920 and the author of a poetry chapbook, The Indian at Indian School. Her 2010 book The Dance Boots won the Flannery O'Connor Award for Short Fiction.
Santa Fe Indian School Spoken Word Performance: Moccassins and Microphones
The SFIS Spoken Word Program serves as a creative outlet for students interested in writing. It was founded by Timothy McLaughlin in connection with a network of writing-related programs collectively intended to increase student proficiency with language and encourage positive student expression. The Spoken Word Program empowers students to create original poetry – which incorporates Native languages and philosophies – and then perform that poetry for diverse audiences. This work contributes to the overall SFIS mission of developing future leaders for Native communities as team members practice skills of thinking, writing, cooperating, and presenting.
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