Northern Spark - Summer 2019
The Night Library is a project of Hennepin County Library, presented at the Northern Spark festival for a fifth consecutive year. This year, the project is a collaboration with local Native artists to indigenize the Franklin Library. Learn about and from our Native community through a mix of modern and traditional storytelling, projection, puppetry and live performance.Indigenous political actions often rely on the occupying of spaces built on their homelands. For two nights, Franklin Library will become a cultural embassy held as a place to welcome residents of our lands and accommodate the need for Indigenous education and community greeting. Explore the transformation of the Franklin Library into Ha?y?tu W?wapi Th?pi (Night Library in Dakota)/Dibiko-Agindaasoowigami (Night Library in Ojibwe) through Indigenous language and stories.
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Outcome 1: The project will attract a greater number of indigenious participants.
Outcome 2: Participants will have a better understnding of the land they live on.
Outcome 3: Participants will learn a new word in Dakota or Ojibwe
Outcome 1. 23% percent of participants identified as Indigenous. Outcome 2. 87% of participants said that they now have a better understanding of whose land they live on. Outcome 3. 87% of participants said they learned a new word in Dakota or Ojibwe.
Andrea Fairbanks ; Daw? (Huh? M?za)); Elsa Hoover ; Hope Flanagan; James Autio; Jess Grams; John Hunter (Twin Cities Native Lacrosse); Marlena Myles; Tamara Aupaumut