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3 WELCOME FROM THE CHAIR The centerpiece of 2020 One Book, One Philadelphia is 4 2020 FEATURED TITLES Tommy Orange’s stunning novel There There, which explores 5 ABOUT THE AUTHORS the complexities of being Native American in today’s America. 6 FEATURED EVENTS “A novel about what it means to inhabit a land both yours and stolen from 12 COMMUNITY EVENTS you,” There There follows 12 multigenerational stories connected to each 16 NEIGHBORHOOD LIBRARY PROGRAMMING other in ways known and yet to be discovered. With each story, Orange 20 BOOK DISCUSSIONS paints vivid portraits of memorable characters, exploding the stereotyping 22 DISCUSSION QUESTIONS and mythologizing of Native Americans that he describes and condemns in 24 FURTHER READING his novel’s powerful opening essay. Issues of Indigenous identity, tradition, genocide, urban life, education, poverty, and exclusion are dramatized 25 BEYOND ONE BOOK as the characters prepare for and travel to the Oakland coliseum and the 26 SPONSORS novel’s tragic climax. 27 ACKNOWLEDGMENTS As with all outstanding literature and through the lyrical, powerfully moving writing of Tommy Orange, Philadelphia readers will develop a deeper, more empathetic understanding of characters whose life circumstances may differ from our own, but with whom we share a common humanity as well as a The land upon which the Free Library stands is part of the traditional common chapter of early U.S. history. territory of the Lenni-Lenape, called Lenapehoking, where the Lenape Our 2020 One Book project will include a rich array of programs to enhance lived in harmony with one another for thousands of years as the original and deepen our understanding of There There, including discussions, panels, people of this land. We pay respect to those Lenape tribal communities performances, and exhibits. that remain to this day, and those who were removed generations ago, and we honor their continuing relationship with their territory. These words As always, One Book, One Philadelphia thanks the many thousands of are only a small symbol of our commitment to decolonization work, which readers, donors, volunteers, community partners, library personnel, and we intend to continue deepening through reading, civic dialogue, library teachers in Philadelphia who from the program’s inception have provided programming, and community partnerships. generous support, encouragement, and enthusiastic participation in our region-wide book club, enabling One Book to thrive and become a favorite annual tradition. Special thanks to the many institutions and individuals who have given their time, expertise, and creativity to develop programs that add depth and breadth to our shared reading and programming experience. We look forward to a long future in which everyone in Philadelphia is reading, ENHANCE YOUR READING EXPERIENCE BY VISITING growing, and learning together. THE ONLINE ONE BOOK RESOURCE GUIDE AT FREELIBRARY.ORG/ONEBOOK. EXPLORE BLOG Marie Field POSTS, PLAYLISTS, A CHARACTER MAP, DISCUSSION QUESTIONS FOR THE COMPANION SELECTIONS, Chair, One Book, One Philadelphia AND MORE.
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There There Tommy Orange BY TOMMY ORANGE Tommy Orange received the PEN/Hemingway Award, the National Book Critics Set against a backdrop of sacred traditions, historical Circle John Leonard Prize, and the Center for Fiction’s First Novel Prize for There violence, and the metropolis of Oakland, California, Tommy There. A New York Times bestselling author and recent graduate from the MFA Orange’s debut novel is “a comic vision haunted by program at the Institute of American Indian Arts in Santa Fe, New Mexico, he is profound sadness” (Louise Erdrich). A finalist for the 2019 a 2014 MacDowell Fellow and a 2016 Writing By Writers Fellow. He is an enrolled Pulitzer Prize, There There is a multi-voiced epic of 12 Native member of the Cheyenne and Arapaho Tribes of Oklahoma and was born and American characters whose lives intertwine across the urban raised in Oakland, California. landscape. They’re all headed to the Big Oakland Powwow and toward a crescendo of sacrifice, unspeakable loss, and loving heroism. Hailed as an instant classic, There There is Eric Gansworth “funny and profane and conscious of the violence that runs like a scar through American culture” (Seattle Times). Eric Gansworth is a member of the Onondaga Nation and the author of several books of poetry and fiction for adults, including the American Book Award– winning novel Extra Indians as well as Mending Skins, which received the PEN Oakland/Josephine Miles Literary Award. His latest young adult novel, Give Me If I Ever Get Out of Here BY ERIC GANSWORTH Some Truth, was named a Best Book of 2018 by NPR and School Library Journal. What do you do when you’re Native American, so nobody in your class talks to you; dirt poor, like snow-blowing-through- David A. Robertson the-roof poor; small for your age, so bullies like Evan Reiniger make you their punching bag; and a Beatles fan, David A. Robertson is a national bestselling author of children’s books, graphic meaning your favorite band broke up years ago? Well, you novels, and novels and a member of Norway House Cree Nation. He received the make friends like George Haddonfield, a new kid in town; tell McNally Robinson Book for Young People Award for When We Were Alone, and for lies because what George doesn’t know about your house his young adult novel Strangers, he was awarded the Indigenous Writer prize at the won’t hurt him; tell truths, ’cause someone’s going to listen High Plains Book Awards. to you about Evan, right?; and make your own music, since in the end your friends and family are all you have. Julie Flett Julie Flett is a Cree-Métis author, illustrator, and artist who has received many awards, When We Were Alone including a 2017 Governor General’s Award for Young People’s Literature (Illustrated BY DAVID A. ROBERTSON, ILLUSTRATED BY JULIE FLETT Books) for When We Were Alone and the 2016 American Indian Youth Literature When young Nósisim helps tend her grandmother’s Award for Best Picture Book for Little You, by Richard Van Camp. Her own Wild garden, she begins to notice things that make her curious. Berries was a Kirkus Best Children’s Book of 2013 and a title selection for Canada’s Why does her grandmother have long, braided hair and First Nation Communities Read program. beautifully colored clothing? Why does she speak another language and spend so much time with her family? As she asks her grandmother about these things, she is told about life in a residential school a long time ago, where all of these things were taken away. When We Were Alone is a story about a difficult time in history and, ultimately, one of empowerment and strength.
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One Book, This workshop will begin at what is now Penn Treaty Park, a significant One Philadelphia place where the Great Elm Tree of KICKOFF EVENT Shackamaxon once stood and where many sachems of the Lenni-Lenape and other tribes from the Lenapehoking territory met for council. Conversation will continue at the Fishtown Community Library, guided by Nanticoke Lenni- Lenape voices and opened up to all pan-Native experiences as well. PHOTO OF TRINITY NORWOOD BY ZEIN NAKHODA BY NORWOOD TRINITY OF PHOTO WORKSHOP TWO: TAINO IN LENAPEHOKING Archive Dive: Me escuchas? / Can You Hear Reinterpreting History with Me? Listening to Experiences SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 22, 1:00–3:00 P.M., FREE Native American Collections of Indigenous Erasure Kensington Library, 104 W. Dauphin St., 215-685-9996 The Taino Arawak peoples, indigenous WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 29, 6:30 P.M., There There shows how historical to the Caribbean, have made huge $25 GENERAL ADMISSION, $12.50 Indigenous erasure—the deliberate contributions to modern society, yet IMAGE BY ELENA SEIBERT ELENA BY IMAGE FOR ROSENBACH MEMBERS, FREE and systematic destruction of cultures they and their descendants continue to FOR DELANCEY SOCIETY MEMBERS and violent displacement of peoples— experience cultural erasure, including here The Rosenbach, 2008–2010 Delancey Pl., A Conversation with continues today. Join the Counter in Philadelphia’s Boricua community. This rosenbach.org/archivedive Narrative Society (CNS) and collaborators workshop will explore Taino culture, with Tommy Orange During this hands-on event, turn for workshops that explore the history conversations guided by contemporary the pages of preserved rare books and impacts of pan-Indigenous erasure Taino and Lenape experiences as well as written by Indigenous peoples, here in Philadelphia. Dialogues will center by Native communities in the diaspora. manuscripts penned by some of the the lived, hyper-present experiences of WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 22, Lenni-Lenape today—whose traditional WORKSHOP THREE: first European colonists, and early SOUTH PHILLY IN LENAPEHOKING 7:30 P.M., FREE printed U.S. government documents homeland is where Philadelphia now Parkway Central Library, Montgomery related to Native American tribes. stands—as well as the experiences of SATURDAY, MARCH 14 Auditorium, 1901 Vine St., 215-814-3514 Guided by passages from There Taino (Indigenous Caribbean) and other 1:00–3:00 P.M., FREE The 18th season of One Book kicks There, we will handle historical Native communities living in the region. South Philadelphia Library, off with a reading and conversation artifacts while discussing erasure, Non-Native participants are invited to 1700 S. Broad St., 215-685-1866 with Tommy Orange and 6abc’s privilege, authorship, access to the listen, learn, and join in collaborative conversations about healing. Engage in conversation with members of Tamala Edwards. The event will printing press, and the critical role of Philadelphia’s Lenape, Taino, pan-Native, include a performance by the Red personal storytelling in constructing WORKSHOP ONE: and Italian American communities Blanket Singers, as well as an original accurate historical narratives. PHILADELPHIA IN LENAPEHOKING and explore the impacts of Indigenous work by Curtis Institute of Music erasure through complicity with settler composer Elise Arancio. A book SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 1, FRONTISPIECE PORTRAIT OF WILLIAM APES[S], IN WILLIAM 1:00–3:00 P.M., FREE colonization, as well as what can be done signing will follow. APES[S], A SON OF THE FOREST, THE EXPERIENCE OF to repair wrongdoings and support the WILLIAM APES, A NATIVE OF THE FOREST, WRITTEN BY Penn Treaty Park, 1301 N. Beach St., and HIMSELF, 2ND ED., REVISED AND CORRECTED (NEW Fishtown Community Library, 1217 E. existence of Indigenous futures. YORK: PUBLISHED BY THE AUTHOR.; PRINTED BY G.F. BUNCE, 1831). ROSENBACH CATALOGUE NO. A 831S. Montgomery Ave., 215-685-9990
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TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 11, 6:00 P.M., SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 15, SUNDAY, MARCH 1, 2:00 P.M., WEDNESDAY, MARCH 4, FREE WITH REGISTRATION 1:00 P.M., FREE FREE WITH REGISTRATION 5:30 P.M., FREE Parkway Central Library, Skyline Room, Lucien E. Blackwell West Philadelphia The Rosenbach, 2008–2010 Delancey Pl., Lillian Marrero Library, 601 W. Lehigh Ave., 1901 Vine St., freelibrarycook.eventbrite.com Regional Library, 125 South 52nd St., rosenbach.org/whereas 215-685-9794 In There There, the kitchen is a 215-685-7433 In this public workshop led by Hear from gun violence survivors site of memory, emotion, and At this community forum co-presented Dr. Norma E. Cantú, engage with and family members who, living sometimes powerlessness. Join by Indigenous 215 and Paul Robeson poems from the piercing, award- with lifelong trauma, have become this expert panel for a conversation House and Museum, Black and Native winning book Whereas by Layli Long advocates for healing and change. about cultural foodways—how activists will reflect on the local history of Soldier (Oglala Lakota) alongside Joined by public health workers, the what we eat intersects with culture, relationships between Black liberation and historic printed copies of broken U.S. panel will discuss the deep impacts traditions, and history—through a Native sovereignty movements on the treaties (from 1824 to 1869) from of violence and grief in communities pan-Indigenous lens. Discussion will Lenape land we now occupy. Discussion The Rosenbach’s collection. Learn as well as systemic issues of inequity examine how access and control over will explore how the structure of settler more about the treaties and take and racial injustice that perpetuate food production and preparation can colonialism, including its entanglement part in a creative writing session gun violence in Philadelphia’s shape community well-being and with anti-Black racism, continues to that will include explorations of the neighborhoods. Collaborative belonging. This event is co-presented produce harmful outcomes for Black personal and lasting impacts of the reflection will focus on how to by the Culinary Literacy Center at the and Native peoples throughout the occupation of language, body, and move forward together in working Free Library. continent of Turtle Island. Guided by land in Long Soldier’s work. to prevent gun violence and valuing Tommy Orange’s novel, we will set forth A professor of modern languages every life. the challenge of what it means to live a and literatures at Trinity University in life that is answerable to these present San Antonio, Dr. Cantú teaches and conditions in order to incubate a world writes about borders and boundaries where Black and Native peoples can thrive. through a Chicana feminist theoretical lens.
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One Book, Lauren Garrett (Eastern Shoshone of One Philadelphia Wind River). Following the performances, join the FINALE artists for a conversation about their creative and cultural practices, their relationships with Philadelphia, and staying connected to their roots. This event is co-presented and curated by We Are the Seeds, an organization founded by a team of Indigenous women committed to uplifting and centering Indigenous voices through There There: the arts. One Book, Many Voices A Conversation The One Book, One Philadelphia Finale Community Dinner with Tommy Orange is respectfully and warmly dedicated to the memory of Kyle Shenandoah. We honor his impactful civic work as a beloved Grays Ferry community leader WEDNESDAY, MARCH 11, TUESDAY, MARCH 17, 4:30 P.M., FREE Indigenous Voices and an advocate for issues affecting 6:00 P.M., FREE Swarthmore College, Pearson-Hall Theatre, Indigenous communities. Blanche A. Nixon/Cobbs Creek Library, Lang Performing Arts Center, 500 College 5800 Cobbs Creek Pkwy., Ave., Swarthmore, PA, 610-328-7330 freelibrarycook.eventbrite.com After reading There There and WEDNESDAY, MARCH 18, Join a family-style dinner of dishes attending One Book, One 7:30 P.M., FREE from the Americas catered by El Philadelphia events, continue and Parkway Central Library, Montgomery “HE WAS FLIPPING THROUGH Merkury, Poi Dog Philly, Everything deepen the conversation with author CHANNELS WHEN HE FOUND Auditorium, 1901 Vine St., 215-814-3514 We Eat, and South Philly Barbacoa. Tommy Orange at Swarthmore HIM. THERE ON THE SCREEN, Hear thoughts from the contributing College. This free event will be To celebrate the many voices heard IN FULL REGALIA, THE chefs on Indigenous food traditions, followed by a book signing. in There There and throughout One DANCER MOVED LIKE as we put text on the table and Book programs, join us in closing the GRAVITY MEANT SOMETHING discuss passages from There There. season with a polyphonic presentation DIFFERENT FOR HIM. IT WAS We’ll get to know our neighbors of performances by local artists, LIKE BREAK DANCING IN A during this special evening, and featuring Urie and Cory Ridgeway WAY, ORVIL THOUGHT, BUT explore together what identity (Nanticoke Lenape); Native Nations BOTH NEW—EVEN COOL—AND and community building mean in Dance Theater (Blackfeet/Seminole/ ANCIENT-SEEMING. THERE Lenapehoking past, present, and Creek); Mabel Negrete (Counter WAS SO MUCH HE’D MISSED, future. Registration is encouraged Narrative Society) with Campatlanezi HADN’T BEEN GIVEN. HADN’T BEEN TOLD. IN THAT MOMENT, but not required; seating is first- (Danza Azteca del Anahuac); master IN FRONT OF THE TV, HE storyteller Tchin (Narragansett); Cassie come, first-served. This event is KNEW. HE WAS A PART OF Rose Mitchell (Modoc/Klamath); We co-presented by the Culinary SOMETHING. SOMETHING YOU Literacy Center at the Free Library. Are the Seeds Dance Troupe (Saponi/ COULD DANCE TO.” Tuscarora/Narragansett); and violinist (THERE THERE, PAGE 121)
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Echoes and Reverberations: Finding There There Here: Living Legacies: Artifacts PECO Family Jams: Exhibition Tour and Screen- A Special Tour of the Museum Through Native Perspectives When We Were Alone Printing Workshop of the American Revolution WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 5, 6:00–8:00 P.M., SUNDAY, FEBRUARY 9, 12:00–4:00 P.M., $10 GENERAL ADMISSION, FREE WITH MUSEUM ADMISSION SATURDAY, JANUARY 25, 1:00–3:00 P.M., SUNDAY, FEBRUARY 2, 11:00 A.M., $5 STUDENTS Philadelphia’s Magic Gardens, 1020 South FREE WITH REGISTRATION FREE WITH MUSEUM ADMISSION AND Penn Museum, 3260 South St., St., 215-733-0390 Fabric Workshop and Museum, 1214 Arch St., REGISTRATION onebookpennmuseum.eventbrite.com fabricworkshopmuseum.org Museum of the American Revolution, In celebration of cultural diversity and self- 101 S. 3rd St., onebookmar.eventbrite.com Reflect on themes of heritage and Go behind the scenes at the Penn expression, use every color in the rainbow belonging in a screen-printing workshop Tommy Orange’s writing guides this Museum to look closely at artifacts not on at this workshop to print on textiles for inspired by There There and tour the exhibition tour focusing on Native view and gain insight into the meaning, wall hangings or clothing patches to take collections-based exhibition Echoes and American perspectives in the American care, and preservation of historic and home. Read-alouds of the children’s book Reverberations, featuring artists Tommy Revolution. contemporary Native North American When We Were Alone will take place at Joseph of the Tlingit Tribe; Marie Watt artifacts and art. Learn about repatriation 12:30 p.m. and 2:30 p.m., with family- of the Seneca Nation; James Luna of and the work of some of today’s leading friendly tours of the Magic Gardens at 1:00 Puyukitchum, Ipai, and Mexican descent; Drexel Writers Room Native activists and tour the exhibition p.m. and 3:30 p.m. Chilkat weaver Anna Brown Ehlers; and Workshop: Creating Native American Voices: The People— Here and Now. If you carry Native Cheyenne-Arapaho artist Hachivi Edgar Memorable Characters Heap of Birds. American heritage, share your story, Flamenco, Flamenco TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 4, and discuss important issues for Native Screening and Discussion 4:30–6:00 P.M., FREE Americans today as we all expand our Dornsife Center for Neighborhood Partnerships, understanding of Indigenous histories and THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 20, 7:00 P.M., First Person Arts Story Circles 3509 Spring Garden St., 215-571-4013 $12.50 GENERAL ADMISSION the living legacies of colonization. Guests Bryn Mawr Film Institute, 824 W. Lancaster MONDAY, JANUARY 27, This community-driven writing workshop is may arrive as early as 5:00 p.m. to Ave., brynmawrfilm.org/event/flamenco- 6:00–7:30 P.M., FREE open to the public and all experience levels. Lovett Memorial Library, explore the museum before the event. flamenco 6945 Germantown Ave., 215-685-2095 Using the many voices in There There as a guide, explore how to name things and bring Carlos Saura’s sensuous dance film MONDAY, FEBRUARY 24, characters to life without trying to capture merges movement, music, image, 6:00–7:30 P.M., FREE Black Bottom Clinic the entirety of who they are or will become. and stagecraft, taking audiences on an Whitman Library, SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 8, 1:00–3:00 P.M., 200 Snyder Ave., 215-685-1754 odyssey through the flamenco tradition FREE and into its future. Following a screening WEDNESDAY, MARCH 4, The Bank, 3750 Lancaster Ave., 267-777-5820 of the film, hear a discussion with Elba 5:00–6:30 P.M., FREE Ghost River Gallery Tour and Ramonita G. de Rodriguez Library, Join the People’s Emergency Center’s Hevia y Vaca, renowned flamenco artist 600 W. Girard Ave., 215-686-1768 Collections Review Neighborhood Advisory Committee to and founder of Pasión y Arte, about WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 5, 2:30 P.M., FREE address gentrification in what is now dance, storytelling, and where the ancient The power of personal storytelling is at The Library Company of Philadelphia, referred to as University City. Learn meets the contemporary. the core of There There. In this spirit, join 1314 Locust St., 215-546-3181 about the history of the Black Bottom a story circle facilitated by First Person Join Dr. Will Fenton, the curator of Ghost neighborhood with the community Arts to listen and share experiences River: The Fall and Rise of the Conestoga, preservation group Blackbottom and around the topics of identity and home. to view the graphic novel art of Weshoyot participate in a creative placemaking Alvitre (Tongva) and The Library activity. This event will feature a free Save Company’s holdings in political cartoons, Your Home Philly clinic to help avoid broadsides, and pamphlets. We’ll discuss mortgage and tax foreclosures and correct how they challenge us to consider archival tangled titles (when you live in or own a gaps, silences, and erasures of Native house but your name is not on the deed). peoples throughout history.
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Philadelphia Stories There Is No There: Dance and Movement Changing East Passyunk: Winter Issue Launch: Mixed Fibers Workshop Print Salon Re-examining the Logo Community & Traditions FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 28, 6:00 P.M., FREE SATURDAY, MARCH 7, 2:00 P.M., THURSDAY, MARCH 12, 7:00 P.M., FREE Fleisher Art Memorial, 719 Catharine St., FREE WITH REGISTRATION A Novel Idea on Passyunk, 1726 E. Passyunk MONDAY, FEBRUARY 24, 215-922-3456 Philadelphia Museum of Art, Perelman Ave., 267-764-1202 5:30 P.M. EXHIBITION OPENS, Building, Abigail Rebecca Cohen Study 6:00 P.M. READING, FREE Tommy Orange’s novel is titled after a Room of Prints, Drawings, and Photographs, Along the commercial corridor of East Walnut Street West Library, 201 S. 40th St., statement Gertrude Stein once made 2525 Pennsylvania Ave., Passyunk, a stereotypical image of a 215-685-7671 about Oakland—“there is no there philamuseum.org/calendar/event/print- Native American in a Western Plains Celebrate the launch of the One Book– there anymore.” In this mixed fibers salon-one-book-one-philadelphia headdress appears on telephone themed issue of Philadelphia Stories workshop loosely exploring gentrification Consider themes of dance and poles, street signs, and manhole magazine with readings by local writers and and displacement, experience art- movement in Tommy Orange’s novel covers. Join us to discuss how erasure a pop-up show of visual works featured in making with simple tools and discuss through a close-up look at prints, and gentrification intersect in this the issue. connections to Orange’s novel while drawings, and photographs at the neighborhood through a change-based creating a collaborative work. Philadelphia Museum of Art, with open conversation with Steve Burton, a discussion guided by PMA curatorial member of the Ramapough and the “LIVE at the Writers House” fellows and One Book staff. New Jersey Commission on American Featuring One Book Storyville: Native Voices Indian Affairs, and Adam Leiter, Executive Director of the East Passyunk MONDAY, FEBRUARY 24, 7:00 P.M., FREE FRIDAY, MARCH 6, 6:00 P.M., The Kelly Writers House, University of $5 GENERAL ADMISSION Futures Think Tank with Avenue Business Improvement District. Pennsylvania, 3805 Locust Walk, Scribe Video Center, 3908 Lancaster Ave., People’s Emergency Center 215-746-POEM 215-222-4201 MONDAY, MARCH 9, 6:30 P.M., FREE A group of writers and a musical guest At this There There–inspired installment The Bank, 3750 Lancaster Ave., History of the Indian Tribes will share original work for a recording of Scribe’s Storyville screening series, 267-777-5820 of North America of this WXPN/Kelly Writers House view a selection of locally produced short What is Afrofuturism, what are its SATURDAY, MARCH 14, 2:00 P.M., collaboration, inspired by There There. films that center Indigenous people connections to Indigenous futurism, and FREE WITH REGISTRATION and histories within Philadelphia. Films how are these things moving society Parkway Central Library, Rare Book include Belmont Grove: Reclaiming Department, 1901 Vine St., forward? Join us for a live performance hands-onhistoryindigenoushistory.eventbrite.com History of the Lenape in the Coaquannock (2016, 9 minutes) and and interactive discussion to help Lower Delaware Valley Aztec Dance in Philadelphia (2005, 15 generate ways that futurist thinking can Study the Free Library’s copy of minutes), by Olin Yoliztli Calmecac, with be utilized by communities. the History of the Indian Tribes of THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 27, 6:30 P.M., FREE a discussion to follow. North America, written by Thomas L. WITH REGISTRATION Historical Society of Pennsylvania, McKenney and James Hall and printed 1300 Locust St., hsp.org/calendar in Philadelphia in 1848. Featuring reproductions of paintings of Indigenous Learn more about the history of Lenape peoples that were originally on display at peoples in this region in a conversation the Department of War in Washington, with Lenape tribal historians. Examine D.C., the book offers insights into items in the Historical Society’s Native both historical and contemporary U.S. American collections and consider governmental relationships with Native important archival questions about self- American tribes. representation and historical preservation.
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THROUGHOUT THE ONE BOOK SEASON, JOIN US AT MOST 215 Drumming Community FREE LIBRARY LOCATIONS FOR DOZENS OF CREATIVE WORKSHOPS “WHEN YOU HEAR STORIES FOR ALL AGES! VISIT FREELIBRARY.ORG/ONEBOOKWORKSHOPS FROM PEOPLE LIKE YOU, YOU TO FIND ACTIVITIES AT A NEIGHBORHOOD LIBRARY NEAR YOU. FEEL LESS ALONE. WHEN “He’d have the whole world on a drum if he YOU FEEL LESS ALONE, AND could” (There There). All ages are invited to LIKE YOU HAVE A COMMUNITY learn or brush up on the basic techniques OF PEOPLE BEHIND YOU, Let’s Ride: of playing percussion instruments in a ALONGSIDE YOU, I BELIEVE YOU Storybooth Sessions group setting while learning the histories CAN LIVE A BETTER LIFE.” Bicycling Workshops and purposes of a variety of drum and (THERE THERE, PAGES 122–123) percussion instruments from different Like the participants in Dene Multiple characters in There There use musical traditions. Oxendene’s storytelling project in There bikes as a main form of transportation. There, you have something meaningful Map your own safe bicycling commute in to share. Drop into a Storybooth this workshop and creatively explore ideas Motown Jr.: Music and Motion session for a casual chat with a story about changing landscapes. Learn the ABC Corn, Zea mays, Maize: facilitator and have your voice recorded Quick Check on a demo bicycle, or bring Cooking Up Resistance as part of Philadelphia’s oral history your own bicycle to practice outdoors. and added to the online archives at Younger children will learn popular dance StoryCorps and the Library of Congress What stories do foods tell? Discuss the moves and groove to percussion and American Folklife Center. cultural importance of ingredients such Motown classics. as corn, squash, and beans in Indigenous Urban Medicine Cabinets traditions and unpack the living legacies of recipes like fry bread, then sample Three Sisters mash and learn how to Community Flag-Making Make and take home your own tinctures, make this delicious and hearty dish at Storytimes and Crafting salves, and syrups using native wild home. Presented in partnership with the plants such as plantain herb, yarrow herb, Free Library’s Culinary Literacy Center Around the country, there have and elderberry and learn more deeply and Natives at Penn, a group of students In celebration of the importance and been protests and movements about ceremonial healing practices that, committed to increasing awareness of beauty of self-expression, a read-aloud to end demeaning depictions of like the ones in There There, “come from contemporary Indigenous issues. of When We Were Alone will be followed Indigenous people, such as mascots a long way back.” by a mixed-media activity encouraging and costumes created and used children to create collages that represent without the consent of those whom parts of who they are. they depict. Are there ways in which The Motown Review your neighborhood is depicted or Philly Then, Now, Tomorrow: your identity is stereotyped? What do you want people to think of when Collage Workshops they think of your community? Join “That’s what she loves about Motown, GrandFamily Storytimes us as we look at flags and banners Like Oakland, Philadelphia is complex the way it asks you to carry sadness and that show how people choose to and changing rapidly. Consider your role heartbreak but dance while doing so” represent themselves, reflect on what in imagining our home through collage, (There There). Through a songwriting Join the GrandFamily Resource Center for is meaningful about ourselves and working with images from pre-colonial activity, get a feel for the recording artists interactive read-alouds of When We Were where we live, and design and create Philadelphia and current and possible- and songwriting styles that defined Alone, followed by fun, hands-on activities our very own flags or emblems. future images. Motown and appear on the radio today. for grandparents and grandchildren.
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What Are They Thinking? Taino Cultural Workshops Help for Grandparents Raising Film Screenings Adolescents and Teens Who are the Indigenous peoples of the Reel Injun: On the Trail of the The Business of Fancydancing Caribbean? What were their contributions Join the GrandFamily Resource Center to Hollywood Indian Seymour Polatkin, a gay Native American to today’s modern society? How discuss the joys and challenges of raising Cree filmmaker Neil Diamond goes on poet from Spokane, Washington, confronts did they live “pre-contact,” and how adolescents and teens—the second time a journey to reveal how Hollywood’s his past when he returns to his childhood are their descendants living today? around. In this interactive workshop, portrayal of Indians influences the world’s home to attend the funeral of a dear friend. Knowledgeable teachers of Taino Arawak participants will learn more about the understanding and misunderstanding of (PG-13) culture will cover music, dance, art, dynamic adolescent brain and how to Native people. (Not rated) access teen-friendly resources to support language, and food sovereignty in these Barking Water academic success, social and emotional hands-on workshops. Moccasins and Microphones: Hoping to see his estranged daughter and development, and wellness. Modern Native Storytelling Through grandchild, a terminally ill man embarks on a Performance Poetry road trip with his former lover in this delicate Journey with the award-winning Santa Fe and moving road movie. (Not rated) Drop-in Media Labs Indian School Spoken Word Team as they prepare and present their finest works. Rumble: The Indians “YOU GOTTA KNOW ABOUT THE (Not rated) Who Rocked the World Participate in a guided multimedia story- HISTORY OF YOUR PEOPLE. This revelatory documentary brings to light HOW YOU GOT TO BE HERE, making process and share creative space A Good Day to Die the profound and overlooked influence of THAT’S ALL BASED ON WHAT and technology. Come with questions and This documentary chronicles the American Indigenous people on popular music in PEOPLE DONE TO GET YOU Indian Movement (AIM), which started a North America, including jazz, blues, folk, an idea of what you want to make, and HERE. . . . BUT THEN WHEN YOU join a community of makers to work with revolution for the civil rights of American pop, rock, and metal. (Not rated) HEAR THEM TELL IT, THEY MAKE Indians and inspired a nation, with an video, audio, stop-motion animation, and HISTORY SEEM LIKE ONE BIG more to tell your story. in-depth look at the life of AIM co-founder Awake: A Dream from HEROIC ADVENTURE ACROSS Dennis Banks. (Not rated) AN EMPTY FOREST.” Standing Rock (THERE THERE, PAGE 51) This film movingly documents the Standing Even the Rain Rock Sioux Tribe’s resistance to the This Spanish-language drama is inspired Dakota Access Pipeline, which has forever LEAP Programs by the real-life Cochabamba Water War in changed the fight for clean water and our Bolivia in 2000. (Not rated) environment. (Not rated)
Throughout the One Book programming season, LEAP (Literacy Enrichment Afterschool Program) of the Free Library Community Healing Circles of Philadelphia is proud to support the One Book children’s companion selection, When We Were Alone, with With an open mind and open heart, step themed activities led by LEAP staff out of the ordinary and join a healing circle during LEAP hours of operation at every inspired by passages from There There. neighborhood library location throughout Together we will generate ways of reaching, Philadelphia. Please contact your local communicating, and strengthening the library for dates and times. bonds that highlight our shared humanity.
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Additional questions can be found at penguinrandomhouse.com. penguinrandomhouse.com. at found can be questions Additional DISCUSSION QUESTIONS DISCUSSION land (page 48)? What vision does Opal and Jacquie’s mother have for her family in family her for have mother Jacquie’s and vision does Opal What 48)? land (page between honoring the past and tradition, while living in the present and looking the present while living in tradition, the past and honoring between it’s stuck in the past.” How do Edwin and other characters seek to find a balance a balance find to seek characters and other do Edwin How the past.” in stuck it’s passed down? are and practices knowledge what influence the beginning and the end, embody this idea? this idea? the end, embody the beginning and toward the future? toward from page 141: “Something about it will make sense. The bullets have been coming been coming bullets have The sense. will make about it “Something 141: page from been we’ve fact the will be unspeakable, it all of tragedy The . . . Years. miles. from people, modern and relevant, as a present-tense be recognized to decades for fighting families, and what are the dangers they face? they the dangers are what and families, with family separation often occuring due to violence and addiction. How does this does and addiction. How violence to due occuring often separation family with moving Alcatraz? to moving resources? How are these relationships determined in part by history? history? in part by determined these relationships are How resources? your relationship to the past, present, and future? If so, how? how? so, If future? and the past, present, to relationship your alive, only to die in the grass wearing feathers.” feathers.” wearing the grass die in to only alive, affect the characters and their attitudes toward home and stability? toward attitudes their and the characters affect grandmother say about his “Indianness”? “Indianness”? about his say grandmother ). How does Tommy Orange’s novel, especially at at especially novel, Orange’s Tommy does ). How There There III of Part to epigraph of recovery (for example, on page 116)? How does the issue of sobriety affect other other affect sobriety the issue of does How 116)? page on example, (for recovery of characters? What are some of the different ways they practice those connections? practice they ways the different some of are What “People are trapped in history and history is trapped in them” (James Baldwin, (James them” in trapped is and history in history trapped are “People Where does violence, both internal and external, occur in the book? Discuss this quote this quote the book? Discuss in occur and external, internal both violence, does Where or city, own your see you way the change the book reading of the experience Does On page 77, Edwin Black asserts, “The problem with Indigenous art in general is that that is art in general with Indigenous problem asserts, “The Black Edwin 77, page On their in assume they do roles What ? There in There depicted women girls and are How birth parents, their than someone other by raised are characters the book, many In gentrification city’s the does How the novel? in depicted are Oakland parts of What journey in her faces describes and Jacquie that the difficulties some of are What that inhabiting for the goals were What Alcatraz. at efforts the resettlement Describe Which characters seem to be interested in connecting with their Native ancestry? ancestry? Native their with in connecting be interested to seem characters Which and with money have characters the some of that the relationships are What Why does Orvil decide he wants to dance in the Big Oakland Powwow? What does his What Powwow? Oakland the Big in dance to wants decide he Orvil does Why This discussion guide is adapted with the permission of Penguin Random House. House. Random Penguin of permission the with is adapted guide discussion This
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is a polyphonic novel, written from the perspectives of many voices. voices. many of the perspectives from written is a polyphonic novel, DISCUSSION QUESTIONS DISCUSSION being looked at? being looked he say that it is both his power and his curse? He claims that, unlike most people, unlike that, claims He and his curse? his power it is both that he say other of the knowledge does he use people see him. How other way the he can see being perpetuated by the use of a single stereotypical image, and what histories are are histories what and image, a single stereotypical of the use by being perpetuated being erased? what you learned or read in school about relations between Europeans and Native and Native Europeans between relations in school about read learned or you what people’s expectations? Did you notice any other depictions in the book of looking or looking or of the book depictions in other any notice you Did expectations? people’s response of Native peoples who experienced the pressures of urban assimilation? What urban assimilation? of the pressures who experienced peoples Native of response and Orvil, describe having. What is the novel illustrating about what it means to be to it means what about illustrating the novel is What describe having. and Orvil, Dene Oxendene’s storytelling project, and why is storytelling important to the survival the survival to important is storytelling why and project, storytelling Dene Oxendene’s Native? Did anything in the book shift your ideas about Native identities? ideas about Native your shift the book in Did anything Native? government’s intention behind the Indian Relocation Act (page 9), and what was the was what and 9), (page Act the Indian Relocation behind intention government’s of a community? a community? of do these stories have in common with other stories of assimilation in the United States? States? the United in assimilation of stories with other in common have these stories do Why do you think the author made this structural choice? How does this relate to to this relate does How choice? this structural made the author think you do Why There There There There Consider the experiences with authenticity that different characters, such as Edwin such as Edwin characters, different that authenticity with the experiences Consider What is Tony Loneman’s relationship with what he calls “the Drome,” and why does why and he calls “the Drome,” what with relationship Loneman’s Tony is What Discuss the use of the Indian head image in popular culture. What histories are are histories What culture. in popular the Indian head image the use of Discuss federal the was What sections. 11) (page and “Urbanity” 8) (page Fast” the “Hard, Read What tone does the prologue set for the novel? How does the prologue compare to to compare the prologue does How the novel? for set the prologue does tone What Americans and the early history of the United States? States? the United of history the early Americans and 5. 1. 3. 2. 6. 4. FREELIBRARY.ORG/ONEBOOK
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