University Newswire
Wednesday, November 18, 2009
MariJo Moore highlights Native American Month at UNCP
November is Native American Heritage Month. Activities at UNC Pembroke during October - November:
- October 28 - 10 a.m. in Sampson Hall, Room 229, Dr. Rose Stremlau delivers a lecture, “Cherokee Families and Cultural Persistence”
- October 29 - 4 p.m. in the University Center Annex, Fall Native American Student Organization (NASO) Powwow
- November 2 - 3:30 p.m. in the Multicultural Center, Dr. Jane Haladay gives a presentation on “Violence against Native American Women”
- November 12 - 3:30 p.m. in the Office of Multicultural and Minority Affairs (Old Main 132), "Honoring Native Food Ways," a drop-in event to: give thanks for the many foods provided to Native American peoples; learn more about Native food ways; and sample traditional and contemporary Native foods.
- November 16 – 6 p.m. in the Multicultural Center, screening of the movie, “When Your Hands Are Tied,” a documentary about Native youth
- November 18 - 10:15 a.m. in the Native American Resource Center, NASO meeting
- CANCELLED DUE TO ILLNESS - November 19 - 7 p.m. in the Main Reading Room of the Livermore Library, MariJo Moore, Cherokee author, editor and artist
MariJo Moore is of Cherokee and European ancestry and is an author, artist, poet, essayist, lecturer, editor, anthologist, publisher and workshop presenter.
Her published works include: “Crow Quotes,” “Desert Quotes,” “Spirit Voices of Bones,” “Tree Quotes,” “Red Woman With Backward Eyes and Other Stories,” “Confessions of a Madwoman” (also on CD), “The Diamond Doorknob,”and its sequel“When the Dead Dream.”
Moore was chosen as Minority Business Person in Services for the Year, Western N.C. in 2007. She was also chosen as Wordcrafter of the Year in 2003-04 and 2006-07 by the Wordcraft Circle of Native Writers and Storytellers; and honored with the prestigious award of North Carolina's Distinguished Woman of the Year in the Arts in 1998.
The June/July issue of Native Peoples/Indian Artists magazine honored Moore as one of the top five American Indian writers of the new century in 2000. In addition, Ms. Moore has served on the New York State Council on the Arts Literature panel, the North Carolina Humanities Council, National Caucus of Wordcraft Circle of Native Writers and Storytellers, the board of the North Carolina Writers' Network, and the Speakers' Bureau for the North Carolina Humanities Council.
Moore resides in the mountains of western North Carolina, where she writes editorials on Indigenous issues for various publications, and she was a past poetry editor for Rapid River Arts and Literature Journal, an Asheville, N.C., based publication.
Her commentaries have aired on National Public Radio and First Voices/Indigenous Radio in New York City. She is founder of rENEGADE pLANETS pUBLISHING, which was chosen as Publisher of the Year by Wordcraft Circle of Native Writers and Storytellers in 2001.
Currently, she is working on an anthology of Indigenous authors dedicated to Vine Deloria Jr., which is titled “Unraveling the Spreading Cloth of Time: Indigenous Thoughts Concerning the Universe,” and a new book of short stories, titled “The Boy With Tree Growing From His Ear and Other Stories.”
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