Bellevue University Employee Book Forum Special Event
Author Visit and Book
Signing, in conjunction with the
Celebration
of Student Writing, Tuesday, May 14, 2013
In 1877, Chief Standing Bear’s Ponca Indian tribe was forcibly removed from their Nebraska homeland and marched to what was then known as Indian Territory (now Oklahoma), in what became the tribe’s own Trail of Tears. “I Am a Man” chronicles what happened when Standing Bear set off on a six-hundred-mile walk to return the body of his only son to their traditional burial ground. Along the way, it examines the complex relationship between the United States government and the small, peaceful tribe and the legal consequences of land swaps and broken treaties, while never losing sight of the heartbreaking journey the Ponca endured. It is a story of survival---of a people left for dead who arose from the ashes of injustice, disease, neglect, starvation, humiliation, and termination.
Book
Discussion and Book Signing is Tuesday, May 14, 2013 from 4:00 – 5:30 p.m. in
the Library (Classroom 460). Mr. Starita
will be joining us around 5:00 p.m. for discussion, to answer any questions,
and to sign copies of our books.
To
participate, please give $5.00 (cash) to Lorraine Patrick in the Library on or
before May 1, 2013. The cost includes
your own personal copy of the book and tasty refreshments.