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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What if stories are one of the oldest ways humans create maps for living well on the land—maps of relationship between people, place, and the living world?
On Sunday, April 26, 2026, at 1:30 p.m. in the Fireside Room and on Zoom, HIP member and UC Berkeley Professor Emerita, Hertha Sweet Wong’s talk, “The Vitality of Indigenous Storytelling: Place, Time, Beings,” will invite us into the rich and enduring world of Indigenous storytelling in North America.
Zoom Link: https://us02web.zoom.us/j/86173268654?pwd=WZX2YRLbidCaEsoMZm0agHGIQujqzo.1
Many of us at UUCB already feel a deep connection to Indigenous wisdom and practice. Through the work of the Honoring Indigenous Peoples group (HIP), the tending of our Three Sisters garden inspired by Braiding Sweetgrass, and our congregation’s commitment to paying the Shuumi tax to the Ohlone people whose land we share, we continue learning what it means to live respectfully on Indigenous land.
In this spirit of learning and relationship, Herta’s talk will explore the vitality and diversity of Native stories and the deep relationships they hold between place, time, and the many beings who share the land. These stories have traveled across generations, carrying knowledge, memory, and imagination. They also continue to serve as powerful sources of resistance, resilience, and healing.
For those of us seeking to deepen our understanding of Indigenous traditions and our own relationship to the land beneath our feet, this talk offers an opportunity to listen and learn from stories that have long sustained communities and continue to guide the present.
HIP offers this gathering as part of our congregation’s continuing journey of learning from the stories and wisdom of the first peoples of this land.
April 26, 2026, 1:30 – 3:30 p.m. Fireside Room and on Zoom.
https://us02web.zoom.us/j/86173268654?pwd=WZX2YRLbidCaEsoMZm0agHGIQujqzo.1
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.
