First Nations Lectures

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  Inspired Resistance: The Poetry of Liliana Ancalao

  Liliana Ancalao

  This video presents a poetry reading given by Mapuche-Argentinian poet Liliana Ancalao on March 22, 2018. This was the third in a series of lectures on First Nations at Furman University. Each poem is introduced by a summary in English read by Furman students Lizbeth Gonzalez and Michael Anthony. Liliana reads her poems in Mapuzungun and in Spanish.

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  Cherokee Life Through Annette Saunooke Clapsaddle’s Short Stories

  Annette Saunooke Clapsaddle

  This is a video of the lecture that Cherokee fiction writer and journalist Annette Saunooke Clapsaddle gave at Furman University on March 20, 2018. She discusses aspects of her life as a Cherokee woman and the way she represents Cherokee life and culture through her short stories.

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  First Nations In Dialogue: Cherokee and Mapuche Perspectives

  Annette Saunooke Clapsaddle and Liliana Ancalao

  This video presents the conversation between Cherokee fiction writer and journalist Annette Saunooke Clapsaddle and Mapuche-Argentinian poet Liliana Ancalao, which happened on March 21, 2018. This was the second in a series of lectures on First Nations at Furman University. Through a comparative perspective, they share important aspects of their cultures through three topics: their respective culture’s relationship to the natural world, gender representations in their writing, and current social and political issues of the Cherokee and Mapuche First Nations.