{"nodes":[{"node":{"nid":"80271","title":"Healing the Heart, a Rematriation Talking Circle","campus":"Tempe campus","locations":"Hayden Library, Labriola Center, room 204","college_unit":"ASU Library, Labriola National American Indian Data Center","department":"","field_cost_value":"Free","event_price_level":"Free","asu_events_price_desc":"Free","body_summary":"\u003Cdiv\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/www.xuedoin.com\/\u0022\u003EChelsea Tayrien \ud801\udcf8\ud801\udcf6\ud801\udcdf\ud801\udcf0\ud801\udceb\u0358 Looking to the Eagle, or Xuedoin\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E","full_body":"\u003Cdiv\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/www.xuedoin.com\/\u0022\u003EChelsea Tayrien \ud801\udcf8\ud801\udcf6\ud801\udcdf\ud801\udcf0\ud801\udceb\u0358 Looking to the Eagle, or Xuedoin\u003C\/a\u003E, (she\/they), author of\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/search.lib.asu.edu\/permalink\/01ASU_INST\/b0h8jj\/alma991048818809603841\u0022\u003E A Calm and Normal Heart\u003C\/a\u003E and recipient of the National Book Foundation\u2019s 5 Under 35 Award in 2023, will be visiting the Labriola Center at Hayden Library to lead \u0022Healing the Heart, a Rematriation Talking Circle.\u0022\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EThis Rematriation Talking Circle is a part of a Rematriation Tour series, where hosts Xuedoin and Claire Maracle invite BIPOC communities to come together and discuss themes of healing through rematriation in a safe space. Questions such as what is rematriation, how can Native people participate in women empowerment, what is Indigenous matriarchy and how is healthy masculinity defined regarding Indigenous men will be discussed. Although themes focus on Indigenous feminism, men are encouraged and welcome to respectfully participate in this important conversation.\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/www.xuedoin.com\/\u0022\u003E\ud801\udcd0\ud801\udcf6\ud801\udcdf\ud801\udcf0\ud801\udceb\u0358 \u201cXuedoin\u201d is Chelsea T. Hicks\u003C\/a\u003E, an Osage interdisciplinary storyteller and founding artist of Words of the People. Currently a PhD student at the University of Oklahoma, \ud801\udcf8\ud801\udcf6\ud801\udcdf\ud801\udcf0\ud801\udceb\u0358 creates contemporary Indigenous language expressions via writing and visual art. Her first book \ud801\udce9\ud801\udcd8\u0358\ud801\udcf2\ud801\udcdf \ud801\udcf7\ud801\udcd8\ud801\udcee\ud801\udcec\ud801\udcdf \u2018A Calm \u0026amp; Normal Heart\u2019 won the 5 Under 35 Award from the National Book Foundation and she is a recipient of the Oklahoma Book Award for \u2018The Making of Killers of the Flower Moon \ud801\udce8\ud801\udce3\u0358\ud801\udcea\u0358\ud801\udcec\ud801\udcd8 \ud801\udce1\ud801\udce7\ud801\udcd8\ud801\udcee\ud801\udce4\ud801\udcd8 \ud801\udcfb\ud801\udce3\u0358\ud801\udce4\ud801\udcd8 \ud801\udcf2\u02bc\ud801\udcdf\ud801\udcf5\ud801\udcdf\u2019 by Osage News. Her first novel, \ud801\udce3\ud801\udce4\ud801\udcea, is forthcoming from The University of Oklahoma Press.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EClaire Maracle is a Kanien\u2019keh\u00e1:ka (Mohawk) member of the Six Nations of the Grand River, raised as a guest on Muscogee, Osage, and Cherokee land. This experience directly informs their work in rematriation and their conviction that language is the key to transcending displacement. As Executive Director of Words of the People, their decade of arts activism is driven by the belief that fluent futures are built not through preservation alone, but through unyielding visibility and the active, creative celebration of living languages.\u003Cbr\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E\u003Cbr\u003ETo learn more about rematriation and topics revolving around how it is practiced and defined, \u003C\/span\u003E\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/forgeorganizing.org\/article\/beyond-democracy-everyone-eats\/\u0022\u003Echeck out this article\u003C\/a\u003E by\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/forgeorganizing.org\/author\/baratunde-thurston\/\u0022\u003E Baratunde Thurston\u003C\/a\u003E and \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/forgeorganizing.org\/author\/claire-maracle\/\u0022\u003EClaire Maracle\u003C\/a\u003E. The Labriola Center will also have a book display that accompanies themes revolving around rematriation in Indigenous communities. In addition, Xuedoin will host the Indigenous Open Mic at the Labriola Center the following evening. 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