Sandoz Conference set for September
The annual Mari Sandoz Heritage Society Conference has been set for Thursday and Friday, Sept. 27-28, on the campus of Chadron State College. This year’s conference theme is “Hostiles and Friendlies,” taken from the Sandoz book by the same title.
The conference will begin Thursday with the Pilster High Plains Lecture given by Joe Starita, author of “I Am a Man: Chief Standing Bear’s Journey for Justice.” The book is this year’s selection for One Book One Nebraska, a program by the Nebraska Center for the Book which is designed to cultivate a culture of reading and discussion with a selection by one of the state’s authors each year.
The book tells the story of Ponca Chief Standing Bear’s court battle to establish he was, in the eyes of the law, a person. Starita also had an important role in the NET television documentary “Standing Bear’s Footsteps.”
The Pilster Lecture will be at CSC’s Memorial Hall and is free and open to the public.
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