The NYU’ Department of English and the Native Peoples Forum invite you to a talk:

Prof. Alan Velie, David Boyd Ross Professor of English at the University
of Oklahoma.

“The American Indian Renaissance”

Thursday, September 18, 2008
3:00-5:00 PM
Deans’ Conference Room, Rm 222,
13-19 University Place

Professor Velie specializes in Shakespeare, Renaissance Drama, American Indian Literature, Contemporary Criticism, and the Bible in Literature.
He is the author of “Native American Perspectives on Literature and History” (University of Oklahom Press 1995) and “The Lightning Within” (University of Nebraska Press (1991) among others.

By The Associated Press

NEW YORK - An exhibit of 55 dresses from tribes in the Plains, Plateau and Great Basins regions opens Sept. 26 at the Smithsonian’s National Museum of the American Indian.

The show is called “Identity by Design: Tradition, Change and Celebration in Native Women’s Dresses.”

Dress designs include full skirts to allow for horseback riding, an outfit to mark a girl’s passage to womanhood, dresses worn for ceremonial dances, and styles developed to identify membership in tribes or societies for women gifted in beadwork or other arts.

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