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| Events for day: Thursday 05 November 2009 |
| 10:00am - 11:00am Alvin Ziontz on KUOW Category : General Tune in to hear Alvin Ziontz, author of A LAWYER IN INDIAN COUNTRY, on Seattle's KUOW (94.9 FM) on November 5 at 10 a.m. KUOW will also post a podcast of the interview later that day. In his memoir, Alvin Ziontz reflects on his more than thirty years representing Indian tribes, from a time when Indian law was little known through landmark battles that upheld tribal sovereignty. He discusses the growth and maturation of tribal government and the underlying tensions between Indian society and the non-Indian world. A Lawyer in Indian Country presents vignettes of reservation life and recounts some of the memorable legal cases that ... 6:30pm - 8:00pm Alvin Ziontz at University Book Store, Bellevue Category : General Join Alvin Ziontz, author of A LAWYER IN INDIAN COUNTRY, at University Book Store, Bellevue, on November 5 at 6:30 p.m. See Alvin Ziontz's blog: http://lawyerinindiancountry.blogspot.com/ In his memoir, Alvin Ziontz reflects on his more than thirty years representing Indian tribes, from a time when Indian law was little known through landmark battles that upheld tribal sovereignty. He discusses the growth and maturation of tribal government and the underlying tensions between Indian society and the non-Indian world. A Lawyer in Indian Country presents vignettes of reservation life and recounts some of the memorab ... 7:30pm - 9:00pm David Biespiel at Open Books Category : General Join David Biespiel, author of THE BOOK OF MEN AND WOMEN, at Open Books, Seattle, on November 5 at 7:30 p.m. David Biespiel's energetic language, so varied and musical and precise, is quite unmatched by that of other contemporary poets. The Book of Men and Women is his second collection in the Pacific Northwest Poetry Series, and as always he is the master of the long line, his words strung across its reach as tightly as beads. But new poems in this book explore the intimacies of the shorter line as well and display Biespiel's formal inventiveness and emotional range. The Book of Men and Women addresses our time ... |
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