Reading: David Treuer

In this audiovisual recording from Thursday, March 20, 1997, as part of the 28th Annual UND Writers Conference: “Writing Nature: The Nature of Writing,” David Treuer reads an introduction he wrote about language, cultural representation, and the issues of simplifying the relationship between indigenous peoples and nature, and reads from The Hiawatha. Treuer also responds to audience questions about identity and authenticity, writing from experience, writing in other points of view, his work in other disciplines, his work habits, his language restoration project, and approaching difficult subjects