Jul
31
6:00 PM18:00

First America Indigenous Futures Book Release: From the Heart of Our Nations

Join First America, Tulsa Artist Fellowship, the Oklahoma Center for the Humanities, Red Media, and the Lindy Waters III Foundation for an evening celebrating Indigenous futurisms, storytelling, and the release of From the Heart of Our Nations: An Indigenous Futures Anthology of Short Fiction, edited by Kashona Notah with a foreword by Rebecca Nagle.

Earlier this year, First America hosted two creative writing workshops—one in Tulsa and one virtual—bringing together emerging Indigenous writers representing Native Nations from across the United States. Led by Tulsa Artist Fellow Kashona Notah (Iñupiaq), participants were invited to imagine Indigenous communities 250 years into the future. Their visionary stories now come together in this new anthology, published by OK Stamp Press.

Acclaimed author Deborah Jackson Taffa (Kwatsaan/Yuma and Laguna Pueblo) will open the evening with a keynote conversation exploring Indigenous futurisms and the contemporary resurgence of Native literature. Following the conversation, contributors to the anthology will read selections from their work in celebration of this remarkable collection.

Copies of From the Heart of Our Nations will be available for purchase through Magic City Books, alongside titles by Deborah Jackson Taffa (Kwatsaan/Yuma and Laguna Pueblo) and Rebecca Nagle (Cherokee Nation), First America creator and Tulsa Artist Fellow, with a book signing following the program. Catering will be provided by NATV.

Kashona Notah and Rebecca Nagle will moderate the evening and be available, alongside contributing authors, for book signing afterward.

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Apr
20
to Apr 28

First America Indigenous Futures Writing Workshops

Workshop Leader and Coordinator

First America is hosting two creative writing workshop series for emerging Indigenous writers, one in-person in Tulsa and one online. Through guided sessions and ongoing revision support, participants will develop short fiction (1,000–2,000 words) imagining Indigenous nations 250 years in the future. The workshops extend the themes of the First America podcast, which explores Indigenous history 250 years in the past. Selected pieces will be published online, with one featured on the podcast and awarded a $500 prize. A culminating public reading and short story anthology book release in Tulsa will follow (date TBD).

Free to attend. Open to Native writers.

In-Person Sessions
April 20, 22, and 24
5–7 PM CST
Tulsa Artist Fellowship Studios

Online Sessions
April 21, 23, and 28
5–7 PM CST
Zoom

Application deadline: March 31, 2026

About First America

In July 2026, the U.S. will mark the 250th anniversary of the Declaration of Independence. This summer, when media streams are full of an outdated and inaccurate version of the American story, First America will be the counter narrative. First America reveals how the founders’ treatment of Indigenous peoples—and our resistance—fundamentally shaped U.S. democracy. The First America podcast will be written and hosted by Rebecca Nagle, the award-winning journalist behind This Land. The project was developed in collaboration with leading Native scholars and writers, including Ned Blackhawk (Western Shoshone, Yale), Maggie Blackhawk (Ojibwe, NYU), Nick Estes (Lakota, University of Minnesota), and Phil Deloria (Dakota descent, Harvard).

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