VIRTUAL AUTHOR TALK – On the Turtle’s Back: Stories the Lenape Told Their Grandchildren
November 5 @ 12:00 pm - 1:00 pm
The Lenape tribe, also known as the Delaware Nation, lived for centuries on the land that English colonists named New Jersey. Driven west to Indiana, Missouri, and finally to Oklahoma, the Lenape managed to preserve the essence of their ancestral homeland: the stories that have been passed down for generations. Please join us for Native American Heritage Month as Dr. Camilla Townsend and Dr. Nicky Kay Michael share some of these stories that offer invaluable insights into the world’s creation, epic heroes, and ordinary human foibles.
Dr. Camilla Townsend is Board of Governors Distinguished Professor of History at Rutgers University-New Brunswick. Her books include “Pocahontas and the Powhatan Dilemma” and “Fifth Sun: A New History of the Aztecs,” which won the 2020 Cundill Prize in History.
Dr. Nicky Kay Michael is a Delaware tribe member who earned her BA from Stanford and PhD from the University of Oklahoma. She is the interim president of Bacone College in Muskogee, Oklahoma, where she is also the executive director of Indigenous studies and curriculum. She serves on the Delaware tribal council.