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X-WR-CALNAME:Oscar Hokeah: Cherokee Novelist
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DESCRIPTION:Join attendees for a talk by Oscar Hokeah\, Cherokee novelist a
 nd winner of this year’s PEN Hemingway first novel prize for Calling for
  a Blanket Dance.\n\nHokeah is the winner of the 2023 PEN/Hemingway Award\
 , a recipient of the Truman Capote Scholarship Award through IAIA\, and a 
 winner of the Native Writer Award through the Taos Summer Writers Conferen
 ce. Hokeah has written for Poets & Writers\, Literary Hub\, World Literatu
 re Today\, American Short Fiction\, and elsewhere.\n\nHokeah is a regional
 ist Native American writer of literary fiction\, interested in capturing i
 ntertribal\, transnational\, and multicultural aspects within two tribally
  specific communities: Tahlequah and Lawton\, Oklahoma.  He was raised ins
 ide these tribal circles and continues to reside there today. He is a citi
 zen of Cherokee Nation and the Kiowa Tribe of Oklahoma from his mother (Ho
 keah and Stopp families)\, and he has Mexican heritage from his father (Ch
 avez family) who emigrated from Aldama\, Chihuahua\, Mexico.\n\nSponsored 
 by the Department of History and the Gable Fund in Southern Colonial Ameri
 can History.\n\nFree and open to the public. \n\nRefreshments.
GEO:33.951797;-83.37688
LOCATION:LeConte Hall\, 101
SUMMARY:Oscar Hokeah: Cherokee Novelist
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CATEGORIES:Lectures and Discussions
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