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Thank you, Bojan.

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Thank you so much.

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I'm now going to introduce
our first reader, LeAnne Howe.

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LeAnne Howe is an enrolled
citizen of the Choctaw Nation

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of Oklahoma, she is the
Eidson Distinguished Professor

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of American
Literature and English

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at the University of Georgia.

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Howe is the author of
novels, plays, and poetry,

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and screenplays.

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She is the on-camera
narrator for a 90-minute PBS

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documentary, Indian Country
Diaries: Spiral of Fire, 2006.

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And producer and writer for the
56-minute Searching for Sequoia

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airing in 2021, her third film
collaboration with Ojibway

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filmmaker and director
James M. Fortier.

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Howe's awards include
the American Book Award,

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Western Literature Association's
2015 Distinguished Achievement

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Award, the inaugural of 2014
MLA Prize for Studies in Native

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American Literature, and in
2012 United States Artist

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for Fellowship among others.

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During the Arab
Spring of 2010-2011,

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Howe was a scholar at the
University of Jordan, Amman.

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Her book Savage Conversations,
Coffee House Press,

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2019-- if you have not read
that, please grab that soon.

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Love that book.

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It's a story of Mary Todd
Lincoln and the savage Indian

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that Mary claimed tortured
her nightly in 1875, which

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has been staged as a play
in New York City, Seattle,

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and in Athens, Georgia.

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Two major anthologies released
in August are Famine Pots:

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The Choctaw Irish
Gift Exchange, 1847

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to Present by Michigan
State University Press,

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released in August
2020, co-edited

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by Howe and Irish
scholar Padraig Kirwan.

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And When the Light of
the World was Subdued,

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Our Songs Came
Through, an anthology

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of Native Nations Poetry,
the groundbreaking anthology

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covering two centuries
of Native poetry, which

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we will be hearing from,
edited by US Poet Laureate Joy

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Harjo, LeAnne Howe, and
Jennifer Elise Foerster.

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Both books appeared
in August 2020.

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She is at work on a new book
set in Stonewall, Oklahoma.

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Thank you, LeAnne, for
being here with us today.

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And I welcome you with
gratitude and hope.

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