Remembering Elizabeth Cook-Lynn, with Oceti Sakowin Writers Society

Event Details

The life and work of author and academic Elizabeth Cook-Lynn (Crow Creek Sioux Tribe) will be memorialized during this South Dakota Festival of Books program, held in the Archives. Discussion will be led by Oceti Sakowin Writers Society members, including Sarah Hernandez (Sicangu Lakota), professor of Native American Literature and the director of the Institute for American Indian Research at the University of New Mexico.

Cook-Lynn was an influential voice within the discipline of Native American studies and politics. The Archives holds the Elizabeth Cook-Lynn Papers and will have a selection of her work displayed during the program.
More about the Festival of Books is found at https://sdhumanities.org/festival-of-books

Event Audience

Public includes SDSU Faculty/Staff/Students