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W&L hosts 2021 Glasgow distinguished writer-in-residence Heid Erdrich Published Saturday, Feb. 6, 2021, 2:50 pm Join AFPs 100,000+ followers on Facebook Purchase a subscription to AFP | Subscribe to AFP podcasts on iTunes News, press releases, letters to the editor: augustafreepress2@gmail.com Heid Erdrich Washington and Lee University will host poet and artist Heid Erdrich as the university’s 2021 Glasgow distinguished writer-in-residence for a public reading on Monday at 6 p.m. The talk is...

A fierce advocate for Native American culture, Marshall McKay dies from COVID-19 Sacramento Bee 1/6/2021 Rosalio Ahumada, The Sacramento Bee Jan. 5—Marshall McKay spent most of his life dedicated to preserving Native American arts and culture in California, supporting education and sustainable land-use practices at University of California, Davis and protecting the rights of all indigenous people. Last week in a Los Angeles hospital, the tribal elder died due to complication...

Former Yocha Dehe chairman dies of COVID-19 Marshall McKay, former chairman of the Yocha Dehe Wintun Nation, has died of COVID-19. A statement issued by the Yocha Dehe Tribal Council on Thursday called McKay “a resolute protector of Native American heritage here, within our own homeland, but also throughout California and Indian Country.” McKay, who was born in Colusa, served on the Yocha Dehe Tribal Council from 1984 to 2015 and spent a decade as chairman. During that time, the tribe was a...

WE ARE HONORED to present to you the very first Massachusetts Review issue focused on Native American writing. We are thankful to Associate Editor N. C. Christopher Couch and the rest of the MR team for dreaming up this issue and for asking us to be guest editors, and we are especially thankful to the writers and artists whose work we’ve chosen for this special issue. Their words and images are a gift. This issue, as it was first imagined, was set to coincide with and push back against Massa...

Press release content from Globe Newswire. The AP news staff was not involved in its creation. American Indian College Fund to Award 10 Tribal Colleges and Universities with Grants for ... American Indian College FundDecember 10, 2020 GMT Denver, Colo., Dec. 10, 2020 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Native communities have historically used traditional arts to transfer knowledge about culture, language, mathematics, science, and the land to their communities and upcoming generations. The American Indian Col...