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CHENEY, Wash. - Have you ever wondered what it would be like to walk in someone else's shoes? Come take a walk through history as Living Voices' depicts a Navajo girl exploring her family's past while struggling to keep her culture in a government-run boarding school.

This story (1930's to 1940's) is brought to life through the performance of Lily Gladstone. Lily Gladstone (Blackfeet/Nez Perce) graduated with a BFA in Acting and a minor in Native American Studies from the University of Montana in 2008. Born and raised on the Blackfeet Indian Reservation in northwestern Montana, Lily is excited to be a part of an expanding presence of Native voices in the performing arts. She hopes that through Native Vision, she can in some way honor this story of extreme adversity, extraordinary resilience and, ultimately, of healing.

Native Vision is one of several Living Voices multi-media performances that combines theater, video and live interaction to impact its audience. The Eastern Washington University Libraries is proud to host this event on the following date and times:

Thursday, April 14
9-10 a.m., JFK Library Lobby
12-1 p.m., JFK Auditorium
3-4 p.m., JFK Auditorium
6-7:30 p.m., Riverpoint SAC 20 Auditorium

EWU Libraries is celebrating the new Washington State curriculum Since Time Immemorial: Tribal Sovereignty freely available at http://indian-ed.org for all students native and non-Native. Learn more at http://k12.wa.us/indianed.

For more information, please contact Nadean Meyer, 509.359.4262, nmeyer@ewu.edu, or Rayette Sterling, 509.359.2403, rsterling@ewu.edu.

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