“The Sky Watched: Ojibwe Historical Narratives of Northeastern Minnesota”

St. Louis County Historical Society presents Lunch with the History People with Dr. Linda LeGarde Grover, professor of American Indian Studies at the University of Minnesota Duluth, and a member of the Bois Forte Band of Chippewa. She is a regular columnist for the Duluth Budgeteer News and a published researcher and writer. The Dance Boots, her short fiction collection, received the Flannery O'Connor Award and the Janet Heidinger Kafka prize.  Her novel The Road Back to Sweetgrass won the Wordcraft Circle of Native Writers and Storytellers 2015 fiction award and the Red Mountain Editor’s Award. Linda’s presentation, “The Sky Watched: Ojibwe Historical Narratives of Northeastern Minnesota,” is based on her newest book of poetry, The Sky Watched: Poems of Ojibwe Lives, winner of the Red Mountain Editor’s Award. Her lecture connects these oral history poems with paintings and photographs of the local Ojibwe. It also ties into the Lake Superior Ojibwe Gallery, including the Eastman Johnson collection. Guests will be invited to tour the Ojibwe Gallery after the presentation. The event will be in the Ruth Maney Room on the first floor of the St. Louis County Heritage & Arts Center (the Depot), at 506 West Michigan Street, Duluth.There will be limited theater-style seating (no tables), but feel free to bring a bag lunch. Seating is first-come, first-served (no reservations). For more information, call Julie Bolos, 218-733-7568, or go to www.thehistorypeople.org.