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.