Indigenous Futurism: Choosing Which History We Repeat

Join us with Weyodi Oldbear for a fun-filled workshop on Thursday, October 7, 2021, at 2:10 pm! Bring your imagination for this workshop, because participants will sketch out a fictional narrative based on a story from their people's history or mythology! Indigenuity is all about building on traditions through innovation! Create an innovative and futuristic narrative though using your knowledge of the past!

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 at a later date.

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.