The National Book Foundation presented a symposium in May entitled “Oral Tradition Meets the Written Word: the Role of Writing and Writers in Contemporary Native Communities.” This event held in New York City was funded through the Ford Foundation and was hosted by the National Museum of the American Indian.
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Novelist Inspires Spokane Students
Novelist Sandra Scofield spent three days at Spokane Tribal College in Washington last fall as part of “American Voices,” a unique community outreach project designed to promote reading and writing as a means of preserving American Indian culture.





