South Dakota Festival of Books
I’ll be coming out for the festival as a featured author. Details TBD.
An afternoon with Doug White Bull, Flandreau
Join Doug White Bull and Rebecca Clarren for a discussion of the making of THE COST OF FREE LAND. Open to the public, the event will be held at the Santee Sioux Tribe Care Center in Flandreau, SD at 2 pm.
Meet-the-Author, viritual event
Sponsored by two Washington DC-area synagogues, and open to the public, this Meet-the-Author event will be open to the public. Details and links to register coming soon. 7 pm Eastern.
Samuel Bak Museum, Omaha
This free public lecture, hosted by the Samuel Bak Museum, has exceeded all expectation and now has more registrants than can fit in the museum. This event will now be held at the Barbara Weitz Community Engagement Center, in room 201. Clarren will be reading from her book THE COST OF FREE LAND, and having a conversation with Dr. Susana Geliga, assistant professor of the Department of History and Native American Studies at the University of Nebraska-Omaha as well as with Mikal Eckstrom, who has a doctorate in history from the University of Nebraska-Lincoln and is one of only a handful of North American academics who has studied the connection between Jewish homesteaders and Native Nations.
Books won’t be available for sale at the event but Clarren is happy to sign books purchased beforehand.
Keynote lecture for Confronting the Legendary Great Plains Conference, University of Nebraska, Lincoln
Clarren will be speaking at the dinner of the annual Great Plains Conference from around 7 pm until 8:15. Tickets are required. Registration and details here.
Sioux City Public Museum
A special lecture in Sioux City where Clarren’s family lived before homesteading. Here’s a link to more details about the event where she’ll be joined in conversation with Karen Mackey, Sioux City Human Rights Director.
Writers in Residences, Jewish Community Alliance of Lancaster, PA, *virtual event*
Sponsored by the Lancaster Jewish Community Alliance and the Jewish Book Council. Here’s the link to register. Please note this event is 7 pm Eastern.
Cedar Sinai Park, Portland
A free lecture for residents of Cedar Sinai Park’s Rose Schnitzer Manor.
Jewish Book Council, JCC Contra Costa, CA, *virtual*
This virtual event, hosted by the Jewish Community Center of Contra Costa, California and the Jewish Book Council is free and open to the public. Here’s a link to register.
Jewish Community Library of San Francisco, *virtual event*
This event is free. Please register here.
Powell's Books, Erica Berry and Sierra Crane Murdoch, WOLFISH launch
To help launch the paperback of the superb book WOLFISH by Erica Berry, Clarren will be in conversation with author Erica Berry as well as Sierra Crane Murdoch, author of YELLOWBIRD, to discuss entangled genres, writing and the nature of fear. Here’s a link for more information.
High Country News & the Native American Rights Fund w Brett Shelton, *Virtual*
Join NARF attorney and Oglala Lakota elder Brett Shelton and I to discuss THE COST OF FREE LAND. Sponsored by High Country News and NARF, this hour-long event is free and virtual. Here’s the link to register. Note: This event is at noon Mountain Time.
The Marlene and Herb Levin Adult University, South Florida, *virtual event*
This virtual event costs $10. Find tickets here. Please note this event begins at 3:30 EST.
JCC Contra Costa, CA, *virtual*
Register here to join me for a free and virtual event on this Tuesday afternoon.
Eastside Jewish Commons, in conversation with Rabbi Benjamin Barnnett
Join Clarren for a reading, book signing and conversation with Rabbi Benjamin Barnnett at the Eastside Jewish Commons for a free and in-person event.
*Virtual* Book Club with Seeding Justice
Join Seeding Justice, Temple Beth Israel of Eugene, Havurah Shalom of Portland, and the Jewish Federation of Lane County as we welcome Portland-based, award-winning journalist Rebecca Clarren and Seeding Justice Executive Director Se-ah-dom Edmo (Shoshone-Bannock, Nez Perce and Yakama) in a conversation around Clarren's new book, The Cost of Free Land.
This event is free and over zoom. Register here.
Weitzman National Museum of Jewish History with Sarah Podemski, *virtual event*
Note: This event begins at 1 pm Eastern. Virtual doors open at 12:45. Join “Reservation Dogs” star Sarah Podemski and Clarren for this Weitzman Book Club. The event will be live on zoom. Click here to register.
Jewish Book Festival of Virginia Beach & Tidewater, Norfolk
Note: Start time is 2 pm Eastern Time. This event is free. Register here.
Jewish Community Alliance of Southern Maine, Portland
Click here to register for this event.
Center for the Study of Genocide, Holocaust & Crimes Against Humanity with Wayne Ducheneaux II, *virtual event*
Note, this starts a noon Eastern. Register here for this free event.
This event is hosted by The Center for the Study of the Holocaust, Genocide, and Crimes Against Humanity, The Graduate Center—City University of New York
In association with:
Center for Jewish Studies at The Graduate Center—City University of New York; the CUNY Academy for the Humanities and Sciences, The Graduate Center—City University of New York. And the William T. Daly School of General Studies and the Master of Arts in Holocaust and Genocide Studies, Stockton University
Texas Book Festival, Austin
Join award-winning authors Rebecca Clarren and Leah Myers in discussion on
their latest books, The Cost of Free Land and Thinning Blood: A Memoir of Family, Myth, and
Identity. Clarren discusses the history of her Jewish ancestors’ land in South Dakota and
documents the theft of that land from the Lakota, who were forced off the territory by the U.S
government. In Thinning Blood, Myers chronicles the history of her family line through four
generations of Jamestown S’Klallam Tribe women, now that she may be the very last S’Kallam
in her family due to her tribe’s blood quantum laws.
Book Signing: 3:15 PM at Main Signing Tent
Jewish Book Festival, Ann Arbor, MI, *virtual event*
Note: This is noon, Eastern Time. As part of the AA Jewish Book Festival “Lunch & Learn” program, Clarren will read and discuss THE COST OF FREE LAND. Details for how to register for this event can be found here.
American Ancestors series, with the New England Historic Geneology Society, *virtual
Register here for this free event. Note, event begins at 6 pm Eastern Time.