The Historical and Cultural Society of Clay County is pleased to announce that Dr. Denise Lajimodiere will present on her book Stringing Rosaries: The History, the Unforgivable, and the Healing of Northern Plains American Indian Boarding School Survivors at 6pm on Tues. Nov. 14 at the Hjemkomst Center, 202 1st Ave. N, Moorhead, MN. The event is free and open to the public.
Lajimodiere is an enrolled citizen of the Turtle Mountain Band of Chippewas, Belcourt, ND. She was recently named North Dakota’s first Native American Poet Laureate. She worked for 44 years in education as an elementary education teacher, principal and professor, earning bachelor’s, master’s, and doctoral degrees at University of North Dakota. She retired as an associate professor from the School of Education, Education Leadership program at North Dakota State University. She is one of the founders of the National Native American Boarding School Healing Coalition.
Lajimodiere is speaking at the opening reception of the NEH traveling exhibit Away from Home: American Indian Boarding School Stories, which will be up at the museum at the Hjemkomst Center from Nov. 10 through Jan. 7. For information on admission hours and rates, see www.hcscconline.org