Panel: Sacred Ground, Sacred Words, Part 3

Location

Memorial Union Ballroom

Start Date

7-4-1989 12:00 PM

End Date

7-4-1989 1:00 PM

Description

In this audiovisual recording from Friday, April 7, 1989, as part of the 20th Annual UND Writers Conference: “Circle of Many Colors,” William Least Heat-Moon, N. Scott Momaday, Leslie Silko, and Charlene Blue Horse participate in a panel called “Sacred Ground, Sacred Words.” The panelists discuss the sentiment expressed by Grace Paley at the 1979 UND Writers Conference about the likelihood of apocalypse caused by nuclear weapons, mortality, the change of Indian medicine and ceremony, the relationship between political writing and character, the impact of landscape on their writing, teaching values to children, preservation and availability of sacred places, and their approach to language.

Note: A portion of this panel was not recorded.

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Panel: Sacred Ground, Sacred Words, Part 3

Memorial Union Ballroom

In this audiovisual recording from Friday, April 7, 1989, as part of the 20th Annual UND Writers Conference: “Circle of Many Colors,” William Least Heat-Moon, N. Scott Momaday, Leslie Silko, and Charlene Blue Horse participate in a panel called “Sacred Ground, Sacred Words.” The panelists discuss the sentiment expressed by Grace Paley at the 1979 UND Writers Conference about the likelihood of apocalypse caused by nuclear weapons, mortality, the change of Indian medicine and ceremony, the relationship between political writing and character, the impact of landscape on their writing, teaching values to children, preservation and availability of sacred places, and their approach to language.

Note: A portion of this panel was not recorded.