Community Rights Lane County and UO Native American & Indigenous Studies Department are honored to host the presentation, “Coyote Steals the Salmon” with Julian Brave Noisecat on March 5th at 7pm, Knight Law Center Room 175.

Julian Brave NoiseCat, an enrolled member of the Canim Lake Band Tsq'secen of the Secwepemc Nation in British Columbia, Canada is a US American and Canadian writer, filmmaker, champion powwow dancer, and activist. He is a public thinker and advocate on issues of climate justice and Indigenous rights in North America, and the first Indigenous North American filmmaker ever nominated for an Academy Award for his film, “Sugarcane.” His book, We Survived the Night, was an instant national bestseller in Canada and an indie bestseller in the United States.

On tour promoting his book, “We Survived the Night”, NoiseCat will detail how his people have endured innumerable erasures, tortures and injustices, but—like their oldest ancestor, Coyote—they’re still here. And the stories of their resilience are rich and complex and profound.

Coyote dies in many of his legends, but he always returns because “death is not permanent—at least not this kind of death.” Heroic and necessary, “We Survived the Night” is proof of that sustained resurrection. He will embrace the “silenced narrative traditions” of his Salish ancestors to build both a personal story and an extensive history of his people.

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