“I Come from a People Who…” is a series of events with Native author, playwright and poet Marcie Rendon that weaves together the themes of the 2021 Humanities Festival and the 40th anniversary of community organization InterReligious Task Force on Central America and Colombia: identity, memory and resistance. Focusing on Rendon’s extraordinary contributions to Native literature and her advocacy for Native American artists and writers, the series will include a community conversation, an intimate virtual gathering for Cleveland’s Indigenous community, and an interactive poetry workshop.
Rendon, a member of the White Earth Nation, will discuss how her identity as a Native woman informs her work, how the art that Native people create broadens perspectives for non-Natives about who they are and who we are, and how the resilience of Native people in the face of historical traumas is expressed through creative resistance. Cynthia Connolly (Ottawa), who serves on the Lake Erie Native American Council Executive Board, will moderate the conversation.
This event is free and open to the community.
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This event is co-sponsored by the Social Justice Institute, Baker-Nord Center for Humanities, Writers House, InterReligious Task Force On Central America and Colombia and Lake Erie Native American Council.