Stories that Remember the Land: Indigenous Storytelling as Resilience and Renewal
Sunday, April 26, 2026, 1:30-3:30 p.m. in the Fireside Room and on Zoom.
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Sponsored by UUCB’s Honoring Indigenous Peoples (HIP) group, this talk by HIP member and UC Berkeley Professor Emerita, Hertha Sweet Wong, in her talk, “The Vitality of Indigenous Storytelling: Place, Time, Beings,” invites us to explore the vitality of Indigenous storytelling in North America. As a congregation tending a Three Sisters garden and honoring the Ohlone people through the Shuumi land tax, we continue learning how stories connect land, memory, and community. Join us as we reflect on Native American storytelling as a living source of resilience, creativity, and healing.
Dr. Herta Sweet Wong, presents “The Vitality of Indigenous Storytelling: Place, Time, Beings.
BIO:
Hertha D. Sweet Wong, UC Berkeley Professor Emerita in the Department of English and UUCB Member is author of Sending My Heart Back Across the Years: Tradition and Innovation in Native American Autobiography as well as numerous articles on Native American literature, autobiography, and environmental non-fiction, editor of Louise Erdrich’s “Love Medicine”: A Casebook and co-editor of Reckonings: Contemporary Short Fiction by Native American Women, and Family of Earth and Sky: Indigenous Tales of Nature from around the World. Her most recent book is Picturing Identity: Contemporary American Autobiography in Image and Text. Over the course of her career, she has served two terms as Chair of the Department of Art Practice, one term as Assistant Chair of the Department of English, and several years as Assistant Dean of Undergraduate Studies and Associate Dean of the College of Arts and Humanities.
