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Discover the Humanities “Since the 19th century, the humanities have generally been defined as the disciplines that investigate the expressions of the human mind.” - author Rens Bod and Yourself South Dakota Humanities Council 2019 Program Catalog SDHC Staff: Ann Volin, Executive Director Welcome [email protected] From the executive director Jennifer Widman, Director of the passed down orally, Center for the Book “Since the nineteenth century, the [email protected] humanities have generally been defined are now in written and as the disciplines that investigate the illustrated form. Carolyn Marshall-Speakman, expressions of the human mind.” Jurisprudence: Laws Office Manager - author Rens Bod [email protected] impacted how the Lakota could live, and Deb Delaney, Program Assistant t the SDHC, it matters to have a good Nerburn presents their [email protected] Adescription of the humanities. The effect on characters; Ann Volin Bod definition is one way to think about indirectly, the Melinda Berdanier, Project this abstract concept. But what are the Montileaux stories remind us that before Coordinator “expressions of the human mind”? A look certain laws were enacted, the tribes [email protected] at Neither Wolf nor Dog by Kent Nerburn could follow a different path. and Tatanka and Other Legends of the Table of Contents Lakota People by Donald F. Montileaux Ethics: Nerburn’s narrator learns provides five concrete examples of what throughout his journey about the moral obligation owed to the Lakota people. Donate...........................................1 the humanities can express: literature, language, history, jurisprudence, and Montileaux’s stories illuminate the One Book, YR One Book...........2 ethics. goodness of a healthy respect for human interactions with the natural world. Festival Previews........................3 Literature: Nerburn gives us a creative While we’ll keep working on providing nonfiction work, while Montileaux’s is an a good definition to make the abstract Grants.............................................4 illustrated children’s book of legends. concrete, most of all, this catalog invites Language and linguistics: Both books you to explore the richness of the Scholar Directory...................5-16 are written in English, but Lakota is also humanities. present: the Montileaux book includes FY 2018 Annual Report As the new SDHC executive director, the text in Lakota while characters in I’d like to hear from you: introduce Grants, DA Awards.......................17 Nerburn’s text speak off-page in Lakota. yourself, provide input, or let me know History: Nerburn’s narrator struggles to how you define the humanities: ann@ High Profile Guests.....................18 understand the Lakota history and its sdhumanities.org. I’m a Brookings native, glad to be back in South Dakota Democracy Initiative...................19 impact upon current tribal members. Traditional Lakota legends, such as exploring the humanities along with you. Fundraising Milestones............20 Montileaux’s that were historically - Ann Volin, SDHC Executive Director Festival Recap..............................21 From the board chair Donors......................................22-24 often tell my husband, “This is the best must read. Every age Ibook I have ever read.” He replies, “You appreciates and needs Board of Directors......................25 say that about every book.” The exchange books. makes me think about the powerful About the SDHC influence of books throughout my life. In 2003, I attended I remember the Bookmobile coming to the Tucson Festival of he South Dakota Humanities Council Books. For two days, (SDHC), founded in 1972 in response my little town of Columbia. My heart T I was mesmerized, Vonnie Shields to an act of Congress, is a 501(c)3 non- would beat faster when I saw it, and I profit and the only cultural organization always checked out as many books as listening to authors in the state whose sole mission is to allowed. I still have some of my Bobbsey and buying books. deliver humanities programming to the Twins books, as well as a book my brother When I returned home, I learned SDHC people of South Dakota. As a statewide gave me in fifth grade titled Cheerleader. was planning the state’s first Festival of advocate for the humanities, our mission When I moved a year ago, I purged Books, and I could not wait! I fell in love is to celebrate literature, promote civil with the excitement, the stimulation, and conversation, and tell the stories that antiques and dishes, but I could never part with books. the kindred spirit of fellow readers, and I define our state. We fulfill our mission haven’t missed a Festival since. by supporting and promoting public As a first-grade teacher, I featured an programming in the humanities like the author a month and read their books This catalog lays out so many Speakers Bureau; providing grant funding to my classes. Years later, a former opportunities for your book club or any for community programs and research group. Take advantage of these talented and discussion projects in our grants student told me she had purchased Shel Silverstein’s poetry book for her boys; scholars – invite one to your community program; and hosting reading and literary and expand your horizons! And join me programs like the annual Festival of then she recited a poem she had learned Books, Young Readers Initiative and One in my class. I have a friend, a grand at the South Dakota Festival of Books, Book South Dakota. lady of 106, and every time I stop to see October 3-6 in Rapid City and Deadwood! her, she tells me about a book I simply - Vonnie Shields, SDHC Board Chair WWW.SDHUMANITIES.ORG | (605) 688-6113 DONATE | 1 Name: I would like my donation to be classified as: Street Address: S.D. Festival of Books & Young Readers Festival City: Help us Build Unrestricted Gift Endowment Fund State: Zip: Cultural Other: Capital. Please Phone: Donate Today. I would like to have a Email: conversation about a planned Credit Card: Donation amount: gift or putting SDHC in my will. Ensure Literacy for Future Generations Donation Options Festival of Books Help us continue to unite readers and writers with a donation to our annual South Dakota Festival of Books and Young Readers Festival of Books. Unrestricted Gift You can help where SDHC needs it most. 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Black Hills Area Community Foundation, South Dakota Community Foundation and/or Sioux Falls Area sdhumanities.org/give Community Foundation. 2 | ONE BOOK, YR ONE BOOK SOUTH DAKOTA HUMANITIES COUNCIL 2019 One Books Feature Tribal Themes onald F. Montileaux ent Nerburn is humbled Dhopes Tatanka and Other Kand excited that his Legends of the Lakota People popular book will be will enlighten readers of all discussed by all of South ages. Dakota. Neither Wolf nor Dog, which is told from a “Wow. To receive news multicultural perspective, that I was selected out of won the Minnesota Book so many wonderful authors Award and was made into a and illustrators of children’s feature film in 2016. books, this was quite an honor,” Montileaux said. “The “In Neither Wolf nor Dog I tell time one spends so that a the story of three men — two finished book can be put Native and one non-Native into the hands of so many — as we journey through readers, which will influence many of all ages, is what one a world too often hidden and too little understood, and dreams of. To see that book in the hands of so many children struggle to see the world through each others’ eyes,” he said. is beyond words.” “I hope readers who share this journey will learn something of our complex and difficult intertwined histories and reflect The 2019 Young Readers One Book, printed by the South on what it means to go forward as common children of this Dakota Historical Society Press in Lakota and English, is a common land.” bind-in of three works: Tatanka and the Lakota People: A Creation Story, Tasunka: A Lakota Horse Legend, and Muskrat Born and raised near Minneapolis, Nerburn earned a and Skunk: A Lakota Drum Story. bachelor’s degree at the University of Minnesota in American Studies. He went on to study humanities and religion at Born in Pine Ridge, Montileaux is an enrolled member of Stanford University before earning a doctorate in religious the Oglala Sioux Tribe.