12th Annual Labriola Center National Book Award

Translated Nation book

Please join the ASU Library Labriola Center and David Martinez, American Indian studies professor at ASU, for an online Q&A discussion with Christopher Pexa regarding his 2019 book, "Translated Nation: Rewriting the Dakhota Ovate"(U of Minnesota Press), this year's winner of the Labriola Center National Book Award.

Pexa is an assistant professor of English and affiliate of American Indian studies at the University of Minnesota, where he studies the critical role that oral and written histories have played in preserving the culture of the Dakota. 

His winning book "examines literary works and oral histories by Dakhóta intellectuals, highlighting creative Dakhóta responses to violences of the settler-colonial state. Bringing together oral and written as well as past and present literatures, it expands our sense of literary archives and political agency and demonstrates how Dakhóta peoplehood not only emerges over time but in everyday places, activities, and stories."

The online discussion will be recorded. For more information about the Labriola Center National Book Award, see the 2018 ASU Now story: "10 years, 200 books: Honoring Indigenous scholarly activism"

Alex Soto
ASU Library Labriola Center
alexander.soto@asu.edu
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Online - via Zoom