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CLARKE SPEAKER SERIES
As Sacred to Us: Simon Pokagon's Birch Bark Stories in Their Contexts
Dr. Blaire Morseau | Michigan State University
Join us for a presentation that will consider 19th-century Potawatomi author Simon Pokagon and his rare birch bark books through Indigenous traditions and multidisciplinary
perspectives. For this occasion, the Clarke’s collection of Pokagon’s birch bark books will be on exhibit.
Blaire Morseau is a citizen of the Pokagon Band of Potawatomi with ancestral ties to the Grand River Bands of Ottawa, and an Assistant Professor in the Department of Religious Studies at Michigan State University.
7:00 p.m., Tuesday, October 29
Sarah and Daniel Opperman Auditorium, Charles V. Park Library
A reception and book signing will follow in the Clarke Historical Library.
All Clarke Speaker events are free of charge and open to the public. For more information, call (989) 774-3864, or email
clarke@cmich.edu
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