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Teejop & Beyond: Celebrating Native Nations
Each fall, Madison Public Library and Ho-Chunk Gaming Madison welcome a variety of Native artists, storytellers, and community leaders for a series of programs celebrating Indigenous people.
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Thomas Pecore Weso (1953–2023) was an author, educator, artist, and enrolled member of the Menominee Indian Nation of Wisconsin. Tonight Tom's wife and copy editor Denise Low, a writer herself, will speak about his books Good Seeds: A Menominee Indian Food Memoir and Survival Food: Stories of a North Woods Cook. These works explore the interrelated nature of meals and memories through coming-of-age tales set on the Menominee Indian Reservation of the 1980s and 1990s. Tribal storytelling intertwines with contemporary cooking as Weso celebrates the foods he grew up with, ranging from his mother’s commodity food pantry to foraged plants and game.
This event will be hosted virtually through Zoom. The link to this program will be sent to you by email when you sign up. For more on the Teejop & Beyond series, include a full schedule of programs, click here
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Denise Low, Kansas Poet Laureate from 2007-09, won a Red Mountain Press Award for her poetry collection Shadow Light. Her other publications include The Turtle’s Beating Heart: One Family’s Story of Lenape Survival, Jigsaw Puzzling, and Casino Bestiary. Low is a founding board member of Indigenous Nations Poets, former board president of AWP, and literary co-director of The 222 arts organization. She lives in California’s Sonoma County, homeland of Pomo people.
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