Since 1995, Winter: A Time of Telling, Chicago's only annual public program of its kind, has brought members of Chicago's diverse American Indian community to the Newberry Library to celebrate and share their living cultures. Oral tradition is an integral aspect of Native cultures. Identity, history, spirituality, and values are passed down through stories. The traditional storytelling season for many American Indians falls between the first and last frosts when animals featured in their stories are hibernating.
From its inception, this event has been produced by the American Indian Center of Chicago and NAES College, in partnership with the Newberry Library and its D'Arcy McNickle Center for American Indian History. The Red Path Theater Company and the Cricketthill Drum group have also been valued contributors over the years.
The Newberry Library's D'Arcy McNickle Center for American Indian History, the American Indian Center, and NAES (Native American Educational Services) College present:
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| Brandy, Valerie Selby and family, Audubon Elementary |
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| Michael Schexnider, Locke Elementary |
Thursday, January 31, 2008 6:30 pm
Join us as student storytellers participating in a Chicago Public Schools Title VII Indian Education program perform Ojibwe trickster tales. Welcome back Larry Lockwood (Northern Cheyenne) and Florence Dunham (Mohawk), perennial "Winter" favorites with their energetic presentations of traditional and not-so-traditional stories.
The Winter storytelling program was founded by AIEDA (American Indian Economic Development Association), whose archives are held by NAES College.
Admission is free. No reservation is required.
2007: Thursday, February 1 - Featured Debra Morningstar (Oneida) and other Native American storytellers
2006: Thursday, February 2 - Featured E. Donald Two-Rivers (Ojibwe), Larry Lockwood (Northern Cheyenne), and the Native Lynx rap poetry goup who spoke on the topic of "Humor, Perserverance, and Poetry"
2005: Friday, February 4 - Featured Lola L. Hill (Bad River Bad of Ojibwe), R.J. Smith (Lac Courte Oreilles Ojibwe), Florence Dunham (Mohawk), and Kelly Gilbreth (White Earth Ojibwe)
2004: Friday, February 6 - Featured Susan Kelly Power (Yanktonai Dakota), Paula Gunn Allen (Laguna, Metis, Scots, Lebanese), and Kelly Gilbreth (White Earth Ojibwe) telling Native American tales of female leadership
2003: Saturday, February 1 - Featured Larry Lockwood, (Northern Cheyenne), Florence Dunham (Mohawk), and Andrew Favorite (White Earth Ojibwe), telling Native American Trickster Tales; press from this event can be found from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign Spurlock Museum, 2003.
2002: Friday, February 1 - John (Cherokee-Shawnee-Scottish) and Ela (Kaskaskia) White spoke on "Stories from an Illiniwek Lodge," and Susan Power, Sr. (Yanktonai Dakota), Carlos Peynetsa (Zuni and Isleta Pueblo), Cyndee Fox/Starr (Omaha and Odawa), and Mavis Neconish (Menominee and Potawatomi) spoke on "Stories from Chicago's Indian Community: World War II to the Smithsonian."
2000: Friday, February 2 - Featured stories and songs from the Tlingit and other Alaskan native peoples.
1999: Friday, January 29 - Featured Ojibwe storytellers sharing tales of winter animals
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