Elizabeth Cook-Lynn and Marnie Cook
Monday Jan. 28th at 7 p.m.
Marian Auditorium, Mount Marty College

“Elizabeth Cook-Lynn is one of the founding scholars of Native American Studies, and with New Indians, Old Wars she remains one of its most important voices. To use her own language, she keeps our collective plot moving.” - Jace Weaver, Director of the Institute of Native American Studies; University of Georgia

Elizabeth Cook-Lynn, a member of the Crow Creek Sioux Tribe, is a writer, poet and professor emerita of Native American studies at Eastern Washington University. She lives in Rapid City, South Dakota. Her books include Anti-Indianism in Modern America: A Voice from Tatekeya’s Earth, The Politics of Hallowed Ground (coauthored with Mario Gonzalez) and Aurelia, a Trilogy.

For her own writing, she believes that “Writing is an essential act of survival for contemporary American Indians.” Her writing and teaching centers on the “cultural, historical and political survival of Indian Nations.” She also says, “The final responsibility of a writer like me . . . is to commit something to paper in the modern world which supports this inexhaustible legacy left by our ancestors.”

Marnie Cook released her first CD in 2005, “Miles and Miles.” She will sing traditional Native songs and contemporary songs which are rooted in Native American history.

We are excited to have both Elizabeth and her daughter join us in Yankton—through music and prose we can keep the dialogue of Native Americans and their plots moving forward.

The Great Plains Writers’ Tour is comprised of a series of readings and discussion programs that explore various arts and humanities components—poetry, performance poetry and storytelling. Through poetry and prose presentations, the Great Plains Writers will carry on a tradition of storytelling that is rooted in Midwestern and Plains culture.

Mount Marty College
College Relations Office
1105 West 8th Street
Yankton, SD 57078
(605) 668-1517
mmc.college.relations@mtmc.edu