SPEAKER: Good evening, ladies and gentlemen.
Thank you for your presence.
I want to introduce Mr. Gerald Vizenor.
Mr. Vizenor is a distinguished professor of American Indian
Studies at the University of New Mexico Albuquerque,
and a professor emeritus of American Studies
at the University of California Berkeley.
He is a citizen of the White Earth Reservation in Minnesota.
Mr. Vizenor is an author of more than 30 books
on native history, critical studies, and literature;
including The People Named the Chippewa: Narrative Histories,
and Manifest Manners: Narrative on Postindian Survivance.
He is also the principal writer of the recent Constitution
of the White Earth Nation.
Vizenor won the American Book Award for his novel Griever:
An American Monkey King in China,
and received a distinguished Achievement Award
from the Western literature association.
His most recent books include Fugitive Poses:
Native American Indian Scenes of Absence and Presence,
and four novels: Chancers, Hiroshima Bugi:
Atomu 57, Father Meme, Shrouds of White Earth.
Native Liberty, a selection of essays,
Native Storiers, an anthology of the native literature
survivance, was recently published.
So thank you for being here.
And with no further ado, Mr. Gerald Vizenor.