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Turning on a Paradigm: How Changing the Story Can Change the Future

  • Museum of Native American History 202 Southwest O Street Bentonville, AR, 72712 United States (map)

Weyodi Oldbear will host a talk on reframing the future by reframing history, namely by tossing aside the myth of the "primitive" Natives and looking at Native innovation and invention in order to embrace Indigenous Tech in the future. Join us on October 8th, 2021 at 2:00 pm CST to listen to Weyodi’s talk!

This event will be live-streamed on Facebook Live. Watch online only.

The museum will be open to the public with regular hours, reserve your free timed ticket for entry.

This event will be recorded and archived on our website.

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ABOUT WEYODI OLDBEAR:

Weyodi OldBear was born on the shores of Long Island Sound among her father’s people but raised among her mother’s people, The Comanche Nation of Oklahoma, where she is an enrolled voting citizen. After the death of her grandparents in 2013 and 2014 she left Oklahoma for other parts of traditional Comanche territory.  She’s written 4 novels, hundreds of poems, numerous speculative fiction and science fiction short stories in addition to a historical play about her great great grandparents Weckeah OldBear and Quanah Parker, and is one of the principal writers for the groundbreaking Indigenous Futurist tabletop Role Playing Game Coyote&Crow. In 2018 she was awarded the Imagining Indigenous Futurisms prize for her story “Red Lessons”. Weyodi reckons her lifelong focus on speculative fiction is the result of a childhood surrounded by elderly Comanches with a lively interest in both the past and the future as well as a distinctly non-mainstream world view. Today Weyodi lives in Albuquerque, heading her large extended household, on the traditional nomadic route of her band.