Can't turn me around: An oral history play

This is a play script based on interviews conducted by Dr. Tanya Finchum and Juliana Nykolaiszyn as part of the Women of the Oklahoma Legislature project for the Oklahoma Oral History Research Program at Oklahoma State University. It includes first-person accounts from nine of the forty-six women in the interview series, who served in the Oklahoma Legislature from 2007-2010.Oklahoma Oral History Research Progra

Centenarians

Centenarians is an original short theatrical production written and directed by Julie Pearson-Little Thunder based on a project of Oklahoma Oral History Research Program that features interviews with Oklahomans who lived to 100. "The Oklahoma 100 Year Life" oral history project explores the historical memories and legacies of Oklahoma's oldest living citizens. The oral history project is a joint effort between Tanya Finchum from the OOHRP and Alex Bishop from the OSU College of Human Sciences.Librar

Review of \u3ci\u3eNative American Drama: A Critical Perspective\u3c/i\u3e by Christy Stanlake

Understanding Native American drama requires a critical perspective often lacking in theater and academia. Christy Stanlake\u27s book helps remedy this problem with a two-fold strategy. First, she identifies four Native-authored discourses generated in part by the study of American Indian fiction and poetry. Then she applies these discourses to readings from nine Native plays, showing how Native philosophies shape Native drama on the page and in performance. Stanlake explains that place, or platiality, in western theater assumes new dimensions in Native drama, expressing complex relationships among character, language, and landscape. She examines the historical and political aspects of Native storytelling and demonstrates how the practice of storying and tribalography creates relationships, identities, and rhetorical spaces for story-sharing. Finally, Stanlake explores how Native playwrights deploy tactics of survivance -Indigenous concepts of time, motion, and Tricksterism-to survive and resist other-imposed constructions of Indianness from the dominant society or American Indians themselves

Chilocco Indian School: A generational story

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