Amber Annis, the Minnesota Historical Society’s director of Native American Initiatives, will be the featured speaker at an event next week sponsored by The Native American Parent Advisory Council of the Stillwater Area Public Schools, the Stillwater Public Library and the Friday Study Club.
Annis will speak at 6:30 p.m. Tuesday in the Margaret Rivers Room and Gallery at the Stillwater Public Library. The title of her speech is “Our Home: Native American Initiatives at the Minnesota Historical Society.”
Annis’ presentation “will provide an overview of the work that the Native American Initiatives team does across Minnesota and beyond to share resources and provide access to the Minnesota Historical Society,” said Becci Dawson Cox, vice president and program coordinator for the Friday Study Club. Annis and her team members will discuss the work being done to strengthen representation of Native nations and communities in Minnesota, Cox said.
In addition, students from the Native American Student Alliance of Stillwater Area High School will demonstrate the trunks of artifacts, cultural and historical information created by NAPAC for use in the district’s elementary schools. Short videos by the two groups also will be shown.
The event is free and open to the public.
For more information, go to stillwaterlibrary.org.