Lukens to deliver talk for USM 2021-2022 Gloria S. Duclos Convocation
Margo Lukens, a University of Maine professor English, will give an online talk about her book “‘Still They Remember Me’: Penobscot Transformer Tales, Vol. 1” at 6 p.m. on Tuesday, April 5, as part of the University of Southern Maine 2021-2022 Gloria S. Duclos Convocation Committee, “The Rivers We Belong To: Grounding Indigenous Presence and Sovereignty.”
The talk also will feature volume co-authors Carol Dana, Penobscot language keeper, and Conor Quinn, USM linguist and coordinator of critical and community languages; as well as the illustrator for it, Shannon Sockalexis. The authors will address topics of language revitalization, the history and culture conveyed by Penobscot traditional stories, and the collaborative work necessary to create this bilingual book.