The Diversity Action Committee invites you to a presentation in conjunction with November’s theme of Native American Heritage Month. Dr. Dennis Kelley, Assistant Professor with the Department of Religious Studies, returns and brings a different topic (see below). Dr. Kelley’s biographical information can be reviewed at http://religiousstudies.missouri.edu/people/kelley.html.
The presentation will take place Thursday, Nov. 10, from 11-12, room 4G41 Ellis Library. Release time is available with supervisor approval. RSPV’s are not required.
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Topic:
“The Oral Tradition as Text, History as Myth: Columbus, Thanksgiving, and the Meaning of American Indians”
This talk will explore the relationship between Native and Non-native America in terms of making meaning. Using America’s origin myths, the Columbian event and the Mayflower Colony, we will explore what meaning we as a society make out of the aboriginal inhabitants of this continent, and the use of that meaning in contemporary literary forms, both Native and non-Native.