Native People of Wisconsin

Looking for great resources or general interest on the Native Peoples of Wisconsin?

Dr. Patty Loew of the University of Wisconsin is the author of several guidebooks. Her latest:

Wisconsin Historical Society Press

eBook -  $9.99

Print - $15.95

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"So many of the children in this classroom are Ho-Chunk, and it brings history alive to them and makes it clear to the rest of us too that this isn't just...Natives riding on horseback. There are still Natives in our society today, and we're working together and living side by side. So we need to learn about their ways as well." --Amy Laundrie, former Lake Delton Elementary School fourth grade teacher

An essential title for the upper elementary classroom, "Native People of Wisconsin" fills the need for accurate and authentic teaching materials about Wisconsin's Indian Nations. Based on her research for her award-winning title for adults, "Indian Nations of Wisconsin: Histories of Endurance and Survival," author Patty Loew has tailored this book specifically for young readers.

"Native People of Wisconsin" tells the stories of the twelve Native Nations in Wisconsin, including the Native people's incredible resilience despite rapid change and the impact of European arrivals on Native culture. Young readers will become familiar with the unique cultural traditions, tribal history, and life today for each nation.

Complete with maps, illustrations, and a detailed glossary of terms, this highly anticipated new edition includes two new chapters on the Brothertown Indian Nation and urban Indians, as well as updates on each tribe's current history and new profiles of outstanding young people from every nation.

Dr. Loew's other works include

Native People of Wisconsin, Wisconsin Historical Society Press

Indian Nations of Wisconsin, Histories of Endurance and Renewal

Native People of Wisconsin Teachers Guide

Seventh Generation Earth Ethics

We Shall Remain (PBS documentary booklet)

http://www.pattyloew.com/

Patty Loew, Ph.D.

Prof. Dept. Life Sciences Communication

Book Lover and Author Event March 19 in West Allis

First Annual Wisconsin Author Festival

Saturday, March 19

Wondering if there are any new exciting authors in the area? Not sure what to read next? The West Allis Public Library will be hosting local Wisconsin authors for a free afternoon of fun for readers of all ages. Come ask the authors questions at our 4 PM Q&A session, meet the authors, enjoy treats and giveaways and maybe even purchase a book or two to take home. 

Watch our website and Facebook page for more information! 

Date: March 19, 2016

Time: 1:00 PM - 4:30 PM

Location: Library  View Facility

Address: 7421 W. National Ave
West Allis, WI 53214

Contact: 414-302-8500

Email: Email

Cost: FREE!

Links: WI Author Festival Registration Form

Authors: want to participate? Follow the directions given in the registration form link or email Natalie LaRocque at westallislibrary@gmail.com for more information.

Celeb Saturday with Wisconsin's Poet Laureate February 6

CELEBRITY SATURDAY: KIMBERLY BLAESER

WAUKESHA – Discover how to say the unsayable at AllWriters’ February Celebrity Saturday! Learn to gather pivotal moments from your experience and unmask their impact through the poetic process. AllWriters’ Workplace & Workshop welcomes special guest lecturer KIMBERLY BLAESER with her workshop, POETRY OF SPIRIT AND WITNESS.

Your day will include a look at a range of sample poems that undertake the tasks of discovery and dissemination. It will include exercises to generate material as well as strategies and approaches for writing. We will expand the notion of witness to include the everyday as well as the more extreme experiences of our lives; and we will explore the many ways our lives manifest belief. The poems we draft will weave together these two strands of inquiry, creating what Seamus Heaney has called “transformative” poetry.

KIMBERLY BLAESER, the current Wisconsin Poet Laureate, but also poet, photographer, and scholar, has been zig-zagging the state traveling from the thumb of Door County to the southern wrist cities, and everywhere in between. A Professor at University of Wisconsin—Milwaukee, she teaches Creative Writing and Native American Literature. Blaeser has authored three poetry collections—Apprenticed to Justice, Absentee Indians, and Trailing You. She was the editor of Stories Migrating Home: A Collection of Anishinaabe Prose and Traces in Blood, Bone, and Stone: Contemporary Ojibwe Poetry. She is also the author of the scholarly monograph Gerald Vizenor: Writing in the Oral Tradition. Blaeser’s poetry, short fiction, and essays have been widely anthologized, and selections of her poetry has also been translated into several languages including Spanish, Norwegian, Indonesian, Hungarian, and French. She has been the recipient of awards for both writing and speaking, among these a Wisconsin Arts Board Fellowship in Poetry and four Pushcart Nominations. Her current creative project features “Picto-Poems” and brings her nature and wildlife photography together with poetry. She lives in the woods and wetlands of rural Lyons Township and spends part of each year at a water access cabin in the BWCA chasing poems, photos, and river otters—sometimes all at once.

Celebrity Saturdays are a great chance to broaden your knowledge of what it takes to be successful and to learn from writers who are already knee deep in an author’s life. Kimberly Blaeser’s workshop will be held on Saturday, February 6^th, 2016. This event runs from 9:00 a.m. to 2:00 p.m. and costs $95, which includes a lunch catered by Waukesha’s own Café de Art.

AllWriters’ Workplace and Workshop offers on-site and online writing courses in all genres and abilities of creative writing, as well as coaching, editing, and marketing services. A schedule of classes, with online registration, is available at www.allwritersworkshop.com or by calling (262) 446-0284. AllWriters’ is located at 234 Brook Street, Unit 2, in historic downtown Waukesha, as featured in Milwaukee’s Journal Sentinel. 

Summer Hanford

AllWriters’ Assistant

summer@summerhanford.com

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234 Brook St., Unit 2
Waukesha WI 53188
Phone: (262) 446-0284
www.allwritersworkshop.com
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All Writers Workshop welcomes Ann Garvin December 5

From the desk of Kathie Giorgio, Director, AllWriters' Workplace & Workshop LLC:

 

CELEBRITY SATURDAY: ANN GARVIN              

 

WAUKESHA – Plotting is afoot for AllWriters’ December Celebrity Saturday! There are lots of ways to tell a story, but expert plotting is the best way to keep your readers turning pages. AllWriters’ Workplace & Workshop welcomes special guest lecturer ANN GARVIN with her workshop, THE MOST COMPELLING WAY TO TELL A TALE: PLOT AND COHESION.

 

In this workshop, you’ll examine the numerous ways plotting is used to achieve cohesion. This approach will not only help with structure but also with resisting the mid-draft slump, and it can ultimately save time. Moving forward, we’ll discuss how plotting will help you find the most compelling way to tell your story. Whether you’re working on a novel, short story, essay, poem or memoir, each work must tell a compelling story and maintain the energy of that story all the way through to the end. This is a workshop for students with just a germ of an idea or a whole complicated manuscript.

 

ANN GARVIN is an Easterner who lives in the Midwest and a fiction writer who makes a living as a scientist and educator in the Masters of Fine Arts position at Southern New Hampshire University. While working as a nurse, she completed her PhD in exercise psychology at UW–Madison, publishing extensively in the area of exercise, mental health, and media and later became a prize-winning short story writer. Her experience proved a perfect backdrop for her novels On Maggie’s Watch and The Dog Year. She is a featured writer for Unreasonable.is, where she is devoted to helping people find health and tell their stories, and fundraises for www.girleffect.org and animal rescues.

 

Celebrity Saturdays are a great chance to broaden your knowledge of what it takes to be successful and to learn from writers who are already knee deep in an author’s life. Ann Garvin’s workshop will be held on Saturday, December 5^th, 2015. This event runs from 9:00 a.m. to 2:00 p.m. and costs $85, which includes a lunch catered by Waukesha’s own Café de Art.

 

AllWriters’ Workplace and Workshop offers on-site and online writing courses in all genres and abilities of creative writing, as well as coaching, editing, and marketing services. A schedule of classes, with online registration, is available at www.allwritersworkshop.com or by calling (262) 446-0284. AllWriters’ is located at 234 Brook Street, Unit 2, in historic downtown Waukesha, as featured in Milwaukee’s Journal Sentinel. 

Summer Hanford

AllWriters’ Assistant

summer@summerhanford.com

www.summerhanford.com

Summer Hanford on Facebook

234 Brook St., Unit 2
Waukesha WI 53188
Phone: (262) 446-0284
www.allwritersworkshop.com

Southeast Wisconsin Festival of Books and Clothesline Project

This Saturday, November 7  3:30 pm at

Kathie Giorgio & Sarah Xerta: Shouting the Truth in Poetry and Fiction

What happens when a poet and a novelist team up to raise their voices, together lifting up the truth through lyricism and narration?  Against the moving backdrop of The Clothesline Project*, t-shirts featuring brave statements about violence against women and designed by women affected by that violence, novelist Kathie Giorgio and poet Sarah Xerta weave a dramatic reading of truth and testimony, and discuss the role of writing as witness. 3:30 PM Saturday, November 7 University of Wisconsin-Waukesha Northview Hall Room N140 For driving directions, campus map and a complete schedule of events, please visit http://www.sewibookfest.com/   *THE CLOTHESLINE PROJECT "Bearing Witness to Violence Against Women for 25 Years" presented by The Women's Center

Wisconsin Book Festival in Madison October 22-25

ABOUT THE FESTIVAL

We couldn't be more excited about the incredible slate of authors and events we have planned. From October 22nd through the 25th, Madison will play host to more than 70 events. There is certainly something for every reader. We are delighted to be hosting a wide array of authors; we will see prize-winners, debuts, laureates, luminaries. 

This year’s lineup includes:

• 2013 Pulitzer Prize winner for fiction Adam Johnson for Fortune Smiles

• New York Times best-selling author Azar Nafisi for The Republic of Imagination

• Pulitzer Prize-winning biographer David Maraniss for Once In a Great City

• The New Yorker copy editor Mary Norris for Between You and Me

• Wisconsin’s own master storyteller Nickolas Butler for Beneath the Bonfire

• Caldecott medalist and beloved children’s book author Kevin Henkes for Waiting

• Acclaimed journalist Evan Thomas for Being Nixon

• Former Secretary of Labor Robert Reich for Saving Capitalism

• National Book Award winner Timothy Egan for The Big Burn

• 2015–16 Wisconsin Poet Laureate Kim Blaeser

And if you can't make the four-day celebration in October, looks for more stand alone events throughout the fall. October 30th, we will be hosting many more events throughout the fall, including evenings with Sarah Vowell, Tim Flannery, and Bonnie Jo Campbell.  We look forward to seeing you at an event this fall.

Best,

Conor Moran
Director

Wisconsin Authors needed

Authors needed to attend Local Author Book Fair

Where: Germantown Library Meeting Room- Germantown, Wisconsin

When:   Saturday, November 21, 2015

                Open to public from 10am-2pm (Authors should arrive at 9am to set up.

Who:     Need both fiction and non-fiction writers. Would like a variety of genres 

                represented, including children’s books and poetry. (Sorry, no erotica per library

                request)

I hope to include a children’s “story hour,” as well as a young author table, where kids can write a story of their own (helped by “Books Bunny” the writing rabbit!) Kids can show their story to the authors for a “treat.” (This will get a parent to your table to see your work!)

Will work in time for author readings if there is enough author interest.

Coffee, hot cocoa, and cookies will be served

What you need to bring: Books to sell, bag of treats for kiddies, and your smile! We hope to bring in a good number of community readers and plan to do extensive local advertising of the event. The event’s proximity to the holidays should encourage holiday gift-buying and the children’s activities should get some moms (and deer hunter widows) in the door. Participation cost is only $15 to put toward the refreshment table, advertising flyer printing, and the cost of “Books Bunny,” who doesn’t work for free, unfortunately.

If interested, please email Mary Zinda at info@maryzinda.com or call 282-224-4786