Native American Heritage Month Schedule Announced

NMU will hold several events to celebrate Native American Heritage Month in November. The full schedule follows and admission is free unless otherwise noted:

SPEAKER: Jim St. Arnold, Great Lakes Indian Fish and Wildlife Commission

6 p.m. Wednesday, Nov. 2, in Mead Auditorium

11TH ANNUAL FIRST NATIONS FOOD TASTER

5-7 p.m. Friday, Nov. 4, Jacobetti Center

Tickets available in advance ($5 NMU students with ID and elders; $12 general public) or at the door ($7 NMU students with ID, children 13 and under and elders; $15 general public). Children's tickets are available only at the door.

FILM: Barking Water

7 p.m. Wednesday, Nov. 9, Jamrich 102

MUSIC WORKSHOP: with guest Digging Roots (pictured)

10 a.m. Friday, Nov. 11, Reynolds Recital Hall

Hosted by the NMU International Performing Arts Series

CONCERT: Digging Roots-Anishinaabeg Blues

7:30 p.m. Friday, Nov. 11, Peterson Auditorium in Ishpeming

Tickets available at all NMU EZ Ticket outlets

Hosted by the NMU International Performing Arts Series

WORKSHOP: Making Wild Rice Sticks with guest Roger LaBine

8:30 a.m. Saturday, Nov. 12

Beaumier U.P. Heritage Center (105 Cohodas Hall)

Part of the Upper Peninsula Folklife Festival

FILM: Older Than America

7 p.m. Wednesday, Nov. 16, Jamrich 102

INFORMATIONAL GATHERINGS: Decolonizing Diet Project

Learn about an Indigenous foods research project at one of two sessions:

11 a.m. Friday, Nov. 18, Mead Auditorium

5:30 p.m. Monday, Nov. 21, Marquette Commons

PUBLIC READING: Voice on the Water: Great Lakes Native America Now

7 p.m. Wednesday, Nov. 30, Jamrich 105

Hosted by the Center for Native American Studies and NMU Communications and Marketing. The reading is from a forthcoming anthology published by the NMU Press. The publication and this presentation were made possible by a grant from the Michigan Humanities Council. an affiliate of the National Endowment for the Humanities.

For more information about these programs, call the NMU Center for Native American Studies at ext. 1397 or visit CNAS.