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The Idaho Humanities Council Nothing but the Truth
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"Lone Wolf" by N. Scott Momaday |
Thirty Idaho teachers from around the state will attend the Idaho Humanities Council's 2005 weeklong summer institute, titled Nothing but the Truth: Survival and Celebration in Native American Literature, scheduled for July 17-23, at Albertson College of Idaho in Caldwell.
The institute will explore works that scholars consider "new classics" of contemporary Native American Literature. Led by five scholars, teachers will study five major writers, as representative of the emergence of contemporary Native writing. Their texts will serve as touchstones to the larger issues and traditions of Native American Literature.
The five primary texts are works by writers from different tribes, exploring different geographies and historical periods, as well as perspectives and voices of both male and female narrators. Texts will include N. Scott Momaday's The Way to Rainy Mountain, Leslie Marmon Silko's Storyteller, Louise Erdrich's Tracks, James Welch's Fools Crow, and Sherman Alexie's The Lone Ranger and Tonto Fistfight in Heaven.
The institute will involve scholars from several universities including Jan Johnson, Assistant Professor of American Indian Studies and English at the University of Idaho, Jeff Berglund, Assistant Professor of English at Northern Arizona University; James Ruppert, Chair of Alaska Native Studies Department at the University of Alaska, Fairbanks; David Moore, Associate Professor of English at the University of Montana; and Kathryn Shanley, Chair of the Native American Studies Department at the University of Montana.
Teachers are considered IHC summer institute fellows and will receive room and board for the week, texts and curriculum materials, and a modest stipend to devote toward travel or college credit. IHC summer institutes are devoted every summer to different humanities themes. Past institutes have explored the works of John Steinbeck and Ernest Hemingway, regional literature, the presidency of Thomas Jefferson, Idaho history and politics, and other humanities disciplines.
This program is made possible in part by a grant to the IHC from the National Endowment for the Humanities "We the People" Program. For more information, contact IHC Grants & Fiscal Officer Cindy Wang at (208) 345-5346, or cindy@idahohumanities.org.
