Oscar Hokeah

Sep 27, 2024 | pbk.org | Oscar Hokeah |Zena Hitz

What First-Years Read in 2024 Many colleges choose a common reading list to build community around the free exchange of ideas and explore timely challenges from interdisciplinary perspectives. Below is a selection of first year common reading choices from the Society’s 290+ chapters.

Nov 17, 2023 | pen.org | Oscar Hokeah

By Oscar HokeahEmbark upon a literary journey this Native American Heritage Month with a curated reading list by the acclaimed author Oscar Hokeah, winner of the prestigious 2023 PEN/Hemingway Award, the Truman Capote Scholarship Award from IAIA, and the Native Writer Award at the Taos Summer Writers Conference. Hokeah’s selections offer a rich tapestry of Native voices and perspectives.

Sep 8, 2023 | independentnews.com | Tommy Orange |Oscar Hokeah |Stephen Jones |Dina Gilio-Whitaker

The Livermore Public Library is asking residents to choose the next book for the annual Livermore Reads Together program from six titles on a Native Voices book list curated by the Tri-Valley Native American Center.

Aug 11, 2023 | tinyurl.com | Oscar Hokeah

Calling for a Blanket DanceAlgonquinOver the course of nearly four decades (1976 to 2013) and 12 perspectives, Oscar Hokeah, in his debut novel Calling for a Blanket Dance, traces the life of Ever Geimausaddle from his star-crossed infancy to his tumultuous adolescents to his solidifying into a down-on-his-luck everyman’s hero able to work two jobs and raise four kids on the wrong side of the tracks in his Oklahoma hamlet of Lawton.