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Nat ive amer icaN i s sue L auNc hFeaturing Guest Editor

Sherman Alexie

Monday, January 28 | 7 p.M.screening of Smoke Signals

Tuesday, January 29 | 7 p.M.reading by Alexie and on-stage interview with

Prairie Schooner Editor-in-Chief Kwame Dawes

Mary Riepma Ross Media Arts CenterFree and Open tO the public

Author, poet, and screenwriter Sherman Alexie’s first novel, Reservation Blues, won Booklist’s Editors Choice Award for Fiction. His second, Indian Killer, was a New York Times Notable Book. He is the winner of the 2010 pen/Faulkner Award, the 2007 National Book Award for Young People’s Literature, the 2001 pen/Malamud Award for Excel-lence in the Short Story, and a special citation for the 1994 pen/Hemingway Award for Best First Fiction. He wrote and co-produced the film Smoke Signals, which won the Audience Award and Filmmakers Trophy at the 1998 Sundance Film Festival.

This event is made possible through funding from the College of Arts and Sciences, the College of Education and Human Sciences, the Institute for Ethnic Studies, the Native American Studies pro-gram, and the English and History departments.

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