Squint Serves on Native American Literature Panel

Dr. Kirstin Squint collaborated with staff from Joyner Library, Kristen Daniel and Alston Cobourn, and from the Ledonia Wright Cultural Center, Nichole Maldonado, to host a program for eleventh graders from Pamlico High School on the topic of Native American literature. Students learned about subjects ranging from oral traditions and non-alphabetic texts to contemporary Indigenous science fiction and fantasy novels. They also had the opportunity to engage with the Neyuherú·kęʼ wampum belt, gifted to the state of North Carolina in 2013 by the Tuscarora Nation, and kept in Joyner Library’s Special Collections