A collaboration between UNM Creative Writing and The Institute for American Indian Research (IFAIR) recently brought Nez Perce author and scholar, Beth Piatote to campus for a reading and lecture.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Dr. Piatote read selections from The Beadworkers<\/em>, as part of the Russo Reading Series at Hodgin Hall on UNM Campus. The audience consisted of about forty people, from UNM and from the community.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Piatote additionally presented a scholarly lecture titled, “Translating Land Through Language.” The talk started with her work translating Emily Dickinson\u2019s poem, “To make a prairie,” into Nez Perce language and ended with an offering of prompts:<\/p>\n\n\n\n \u00b7 What is a text you want to denaturalize\/reoccupy\/reconstruct?<\/p>\n\n\n\n \u00b7 What does water know?<\/p>\n\n\n\n \u00b7 Introduce yourself to the land.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Thought provoking and engaging, we are grateful to Piatote for her generosity in sharing her work with the UNM community.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Beth Piatote is an associate professor of English and Comparative Literature at the University of California Berkeley. She holds a PhD from Stanford University, is the author of numerous scholarly essays and creative works, and is the recipient of multiple awards and fellowships. She is the author of two books: the scholarly monograph Domestic Subjects: Gender, Citizenship, and the Law in Native American Literature<\/em> (Yale 2013); and the mixed-genre collection, The<\/em> Beadworkers: Stories<\/em> (Counterpoint 2019).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" A collaboration between UNM Creative Writing and The Institute for American Indian Research (IFAIR) recently brought Nez Perce author and scholar, Beth Piatote to campus for a reading and lecture. Dr. Piatote read selections from The Beadworkers, as part of the Russo Reading Series at Hodgin Hall on UNM Campus. The audience consisted of about forty […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":3641,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3638","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-announcements","category-presentations"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/english.unm.edu\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3638","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=3638"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/english.unm.edu\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3638\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3648,"href":"https:\/\/english.unm.edu\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3638\/revisions\/3648"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/english.unm.edu\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3641"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/english.unm.edu\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3638"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/english.unm.edu\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3638"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/english.unm.edu\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3638"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}