"Stone, Bone, and Clay" will be the title of a talk by Karenne Wood at Victory Hall in Scottsville, VA, on Saturday, May 5, at 3 p.m.
Karenne Wood, Director of the Virginia Indian Program at the Virginia Foundation for the Humanities, a member of the Monacan Indian Nation, and an anthropologist, will examine the deep history of American Indian presence in what we now call Virginia and consider how our understanding of that history has changed with archaeological discoveries.
Wood will also analyze the ways in which that story has been presented and how Native people have come to be seen as people of the past through the interpretations of museums and historians, policy makers, and popular media. She'll consider these issues from a Native perspective and offers ideas intended to expand the story we tell about Virginia's first people.
In 2015, Wood was honored as one of Virginia's Women in History. She has published two books of poetry, Markings on Earth (2000) and Weaving the Boundary (2016), and The Virginia Indian Heritage Trail.
Recently, the Monacan people, along with five other Virginia Indian nations, was accorded federal recognition, restoring a history too often erased.
See you at Victory Hall (401 Valley Street, Scottsville, VA) on Saturday, May 5, at 3 p.m! Admission is free.