Award-winning Native American poet Lois Red Elk will speak at Flathead Valley Community College on Oct. 8.
Red Elk has devoted her life to promoting and preserving the Dakota/Lakota culture. Her book of poems “Our Blood Remembers” won an award from the Native Writers’ Circle of the Americas and was a finalist for the High Plains Book Award. The book was published by FVCC’s Many Voices Press in 2011.
The event is free and open to the public and will be held at 3 p.m. in room 140 inside Blake Hall at FVCC. For more information, contact Lowell Jaeger at 756-3907 or [email protected].
Red Elk, a resident of Wolf Point, has been a television and radio talk show host and freelance writer. She is currently an adjunct professor at Fort Peck Community College on the Fort Peck Indian Reservation.