So, again, encouraging people to take their seats. Good evening, everyone. My name is kai bird, im the new executive director of the Leon Levy Center for biography which is celebrating its tenth year now all due to shelby white and the leon levy foundation. And i want to advertise, first of all, our new alliance with bio. This is our first sort of jointlysponsored event with them, but we are also, courtesy of will swift here the president of bio, we are also going to be doing, cosponsoring their great annual conference on biography next may. And that will also be happening here at cuny. Should be a great event with over 200 biographers. I also want to advertise and put out the word, we have a december 15th deadline for our new, our annual fellowship, and there are four fellowships given out every year of 65,000 a pop for aspiring biographers. So if you know of people who are aspiring, please encourage them to apply. And finally, i just, you know, im really thrilled that were able to do
Delighted to welcome you to the 11th annual savannah book festival, presented by georgia power, david and nancy cintron, the family foundation, and mark and pat. Many thanks to jack and mary romano, our sponsors for this glorious venue, the Trinity United Methodist church. We would like to extend special thanks to our literary members and individual donors who have made and continue to make Saturdays Free festival events possible. 90 of our venue, of our revenue comes from donors just like you. Thank you. We are very excited to have a savannah book festival app for your phone available this year. Its very easy to get it from the app store and there are directions in your programs. Please try to download it. It will help you today. Before we get started i had a couple of housekeeping notes. Immediately following this presentation, brian curtis will be signing festival purchase copies of his books right across the way. If you are planning to stay for the next author presentation, please
Learnsting to come in and about land usage and who makes those decisions. This is land who that land that has been walled off from the rest of the city. And who makes the decisions that happens there next . One of the things i am interested in is community participation. They are building something and tearing something down. I think it is important to import to understand. Think about what is happening in , happeningommunities right there in their neighborhoods, so they can understand what should happen to their land now. And other watch this American History programs on our website, where all of our video is archived. Www. Cspan. Org history. Next, from the Buffalo Bills center of the west in cody, wyoming, artist arthur amy at talks about his greatgrandfather, Standing Bear. Tte shares photos of the performers. This is about an hour. [captioning performed by the national captioning institute, which is responsible for its caption content and accuracy. Visit ncicap. Org] [captions Cop
By the strange twist of fate, and maybe this was also a bit of a spiritual night from the spirit of Standing Bear, arthur became a Founding Member of the Plains Indian Museum advisory were when he was a wee bit back in 1976. What hasnt he done . He has spent a lifetime sharing his philosophy, his vision, his cultural knowledge of lakota life. And i did not feel it was appropriate or necessary to edit such wonderful life achievements. Im sure i have missed a few things, too. Please, make yourself comfortable and prepare for an earful. In addition to being recognized a lakota artist, mr. Amiotte is an educator, a historian, and an author. He served on the Indian Advisory Committee for the National Museum of the American Indian in washington, d. C. , the commission for establishing the indian memorial at the little bighorn battle site, the president ial Advisory Counsel for the performing arts at the kennedy center, the board of directors for the native american arts studies association,
Governor says he is canceling the controversial 300 million whitefishith wha energy. Democracy now got reaction from the head of the puerto rico Electrical Workers Union Angel Figueroa jaramillo. I believe this is the time to make sure these context of. Appen again amy then, tensions continue to mount between the United States and north korea. No mistake, any attack on the United States or our allies will be defeated. Any use of Nuclear Weapons by the north will be met with a massive military response effective and overwhelming. Amy all that and more, coming up. Welcome to democracy now , democracynow. Org, the war and peace report. Im amy goodman. President trumps former Campaign Chair Paul Manafort and his former business associate rick gates were told to surrender to authorities monday after a federal grand jury in washington, d. C. , handed down the first indictments in special counsel Robert Muellers investigation to russias alleged interference and the 2016 president ial election