{"id":3436,"date":"2023-10-30T10:17:00","date_gmt":"2023-10-30T16:17:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/english.unm.edu\/blog\/?p=3436"},"modified":"2023-10-30T14:14:04","modified_gmt":"2023-10-30T20:14:04","slug":"als-assistant-professor-invited-by-naisip-to-participate-in-event","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/english.unm.edu\/blog\/blog\/2023\/10\/30\/als-assistant-professor-invited-by-naisip-to-participate-in-event\/","title":{"rendered":"ALS Assistant Professor Invited by NAISIP to Participate in Event"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Sarah Hernandez, Assistant Professor of American Literary Studies and the Director of the Institute for American Indian Research, was invited by the Native American and Indigenous Studies Initiative at Princeton (NAISIP) to participate in a virtual event titled, \u201cWe Are the Stars: Honoring Our Literary Ancestors,\u201d which is now available online<\/a> for viewing. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Hernandez discussed her new book, We Are the Stars: Colonizing and Decolonizing the Oceti Sakowin Literary Tradition <\/em>(University of Arizona Press and University of Regina Press). We Are the Stars<\/em> is a literary recovery project that honors and celebrates Dakota, Nakota, and Lakota women writers such as Ella Cara Deloria, Elizabeth Cook-Lynn, and many other storytellers and writers who have served as the Oceti Sakowin’s traditional culture keepers and culture bearers. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Hernandez\u2019s presentation was followed by a discussion with Dakota\/Lakota writer Diane Wilson, author of the award-winning book, The Seed Keeper<\/em>. Both Hernandez and Wilson are long-time members of the\u00a0Oceti Sakowin Writers Society<\/a>\u00a0(formerly the Oak Lake Writers’ Society), a-first-of-its-kind group for Dakota, Lakota, and Nakota writers.\u00a0\u00a0Established in 1993, the Society seeks to protect and defend Oceti Sakowin oral traditions, histories, and literatures. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Hernandez additionally attended the\u00a02023 South Dakota Festival of Books<\/a>\u00a0in Deadwood, South Dakota, and represented the state of South Dakota at the 2023 National Book Festival in Washington D.C. with her book, We Are the Stars: Colonizing and Decolonizing the Oceti Sakowin Literary Tradition<\/em>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Every year, the Library of Congress publishes a list of books,\u00a0\u201cGreat Reads from Great Places,\u201d<\/a>\u00a0that represents the literary heritage of all 50 states, the District of Columbia, Puerto Rico and the U.S. Virgin Islands. This year, the\u00a0South Dakota Humanities Council<\/a>\u00a0(SDHC) picked\u00a0We Are the Stars<\/em>\u00a0as their state\u2019s selection for the LOC\u2019s National Book Festival. The SDHC streamed an interview with Hernandez that they posted online after the festival.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

We Are the Stars<\/em> is a literary recovery project that honors and celebrates Dakota, Nakota, and Lakota women writers such as Ella Cara Deloria, Elizabeth Cook-Lynn, and many other storytellers and writers who have long served as their tribes traditional culture keepers and culture bearers. Although Oceti Sakowin writers have largely been erased and silenced for the past 200 years, Hernandez argues that Dakota, Nakota, and Lakota women writers have long been an integral part of South Dakota and Minnesota\u2019s literary heritage.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Sarah Hernandez, Assistant Professor of American Literary Studies and the Director of the Institute for American Indian Research, was invited by the Native American and Indigenous Studies Initiative at Princeton (NAISIP) to participate in a virtual event titled, \u201cWe Are the Stars: Honoring Our Literary Ancestors,\u201d which is now available online for viewing. Hernandez discussed […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":3438,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3436","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-announcements"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/english.unm.edu\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3436","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/english.unm.edu\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/english.unm.edu\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/english.unm.edu\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/english.unm.edu\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3436"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/english.unm.edu\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3436\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3441,"href":"https:\/\/english.unm.edu\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3436\/revisions\/3441"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/english.unm.edu\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3438"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/english.unm.edu\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3436"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/english.unm.edu\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3436"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/english.unm.edu\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3436"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}