Moccasins and Microphones

Monday July 20th
6pm–7:30pm

lobby

The Newberry Library’s D’Arcy McNickle Center for American Indian History
60 West Walton Street

Moccasins and Microphones
Poetry Performance by the Santa Fe Indian School Spoken Word Team
The Spoken Word Team is a group of indigenous youth
writers who are nationally recognized for their performances
of poetry that incorporates Native languages and philosophies.
A team member has been the New Mexico State Champion
of Poetry Out Loud, a national recitation contest sponsored
by the National Endowment for the Arts for four consecutive
years, 2006-2009. In 2008, the two team captains placed
first and second respectively in the Native American Student
Art Competition sponsored by the US Office of Indian
Education. In 2009, SFIS students won six of nine possible
prizes in this same national contest. The Santa Fe Indian
School is a flagship school in Native education that is owned
and operated by the 19 Pueblos of New Mexico as a sovereign
territory. The student body includes youth from these 19
Pueblo communities and also has significant populations
of Navajo and Apache students.
Team Santa Fe 2009

Coaches

Tim McLaughlin
Amaryllis Moleski

Members
Nolan Eskeets (Navajo)
Davin Coriz (Santo Domingo/Ohkay Owingeh/Picuris)
Santana Shorty (Navajo)
Clara Natonabah (Navajo)
Stuart Chavez (Havasupai/Navajo/Zuni)
Ariel Antone (Tohono O’odham)

(312) 255-3700

Admission is free.