Full Snow Moon Gathering
Saturday, February 18
Great Falls Discovery Center
2 Avenue A, Turners Falls, 1-3:30pm
"William Apess, Standing Rock, and the 1833 Mashpee Resistance"
Drew Lopenzina hales from western MA and teaches Early American and Native American literatures at Old Dominion University in Norfolk, VA. His second book, Through an Indian’s Looking Glass (University of Massachusetts Press) is a cultural biography of the Pequot activist and minister William Apess, the first Native American to write and publish his own book length treatises and memoirs in the 1820’s and 30’s. Advance praise by Barry O’Connell states that Lopenzina “brings Apess nearly fully to life, which no one else, among many scholars, has. I know of no better reader of Apess’s own writing.” Lopenzina is also the author of Red Ink: Native Americans Picking up the Pen in the Colonial Period. His essays appear in the journals American Literature, American Quarterly, Studies in American Indian Literature, Native American and Indigenous Studies and others.
Sponsored by The Nolumbeka Project and DCR.
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