Moscow – Indigenous Horror Discussion and Presentation

Join us for a discussion and presentation featuring Indigenous horror, its myths, and how those stories tie into tribal views. Hosted by authors Tiffany Midge and Devon Mihesuah.

Tiffany Midge is a citizen of the Standing Rock Sioux Nation and was raised by wolves in the Pacific Northwest. Her work has appeared in The New Yorker, The Brooklyn Rail, First American Art Magazine, World Literature Today, McSweeney’s, and more. Her most recent poetry collections include “Horns,” winner of a Wilder Prize with Two Sylvias Press, and “The Woman Who Married a Bear” winner of the Kenyon Review Earthworks Indigenous Poetry Prize and a Western Heritage Award.

Devon Mihesuah, an enrolled citizen of the Choctaw Nation of Oklahoma, is the Cora Lee Beers Price Professor in the Hall Center for the Humanities at the University of Kansas A historian by training, she is the author of numerous award-winning books on Indigenous history and current issues, most recently Recovering Our Ancestors’ Gardens that was recently named the Best Indigenous Book in the World by Gourmand International; Ned Christie: The Creation of an Outlaw and Cherokee Hero, Choctaw Crime and Punishment, and the novels  Hatak Witches, Dance of the Returned, and The Bone Picker.

Monday, October 28, 5:30 PM