CANCELED: The Fantastical in History

This event has unfortunately been canceled due to unforeseen circumstances.

OCH welcomes two-time American Book Award winner Debra Magpie Earling (Bitterroot Salish, Confederated Salish and Kootenai Tribes) for a reading and discussion on what history hides—and how we might continue to experience it in its uncovering. “Forget evaluative fairness,” says Magpie Earling. “Lewis and Clark may have been unaware of the hidden stories within their narratives but what of the historians who study the journals and retell their tales—fabricate, ignore evidence and perhaps outright lie to support legendary mythologies? And yet, fabulous wonders and hidden truths can illuminate history when we take a closer look.” Author of The Lost Journals of Sacagawea and Perma Red welcomes UTulsa and the community at large to gaze deeper, look again, and read between the li(n)es.

Debra Magpie Earling is the author of the novels Perma Red and The Lost Journals of Sacajewea, long listed for the Andrew Carnegie Medal, and winner of the 2023 Montana Book Award. Both novels received the American Book Award. She is the recipient of a Montana Governor’s Arts Award and has received both a Guggenheim and NEA fellowship. The Atlantic Monthly lists Perma Red as one of the Great American Novels of the last 100 years. She was named professor emerita at the University of Montana. She is Bitterroot Salish and a citizen and member of the Confederated Salish and Kootenai tribes of the Flathead Nation.