Program spotlights roles of Native American women in western films.
Posted: Monday, October 31, 2005
The program, "Women of Warmth, Wisdom and War: Images of Native American Women in Westerns," will be presented at 7 p.m. Nov. 7 in the UPS Auditorium of the Lincoln Center on the Morningside College campus.
The free public program is funded by Humanities Iowa, a private, nonprofit state affiliate of the National Endowment for the Humanities. It will be presented by Humanities Iowa speaker Helen Lewis. The event is also sponsored by Morningside’s Academic and Cultural Arts Series (ACAS) and Grace United Methodist Church.
The program will explore how film critics and viewers often dismiss Native American women in western films as stereotyped characters and will offer new perspectives on their roles as healers, counselors, and warriors. Lewis will utilize clips from western films.
Lewis has taught English and humanities courses since 1971. She currently is instructor of English at Western Iowa Tech Community College. She holds special interest in western films, women artists and medieval mysteries. She portrays Jane Addams for the Great Plains Chautauqua Society Inc., High Plains Chautauqua, and as part of the Humanities Iowa Speakers Bureau, among others.
Lewis holds a bachelor’s degree from Wilkes University in Wilkes-Barre, Pa., and a master’s degree from the University of Maryland in College Park.
For more information or for persons with disabilities who require special assistance, call Sandi O’Brien, director of diversity affairs at Morningside, at (712) 274-5123, or the office of public relations at (712) 274-5320.
The free public program is funded by Humanities Iowa, a private, nonprofit state affiliate of the National Endowment for the Humanities. It will be presented by Humanities Iowa speaker Helen Lewis. The event is also sponsored by Morningside’s Academic and Cultural Arts Series (ACAS) and Grace United Methodist Church.
The program will explore how film critics and viewers often dismiss Native American women in western films as stereotyped characters and will offer new perspectives on their roles as healers, counselors, and warriors. Lewis will utilize clips from western films.
Lewis has taught English and humanities courses since 1971. She currently is instructor of English at Western Iowa Tech Community College. She holds special interest in western films, women artists and medieval mysteries. She portrays Jane Addams for the Great Plains Chautauqua Society Inc., High Plains Chautauqua, and as part of the Humanities Iowa Speakers Bureau, among others.
Lewis holds a bachelor’s degree from Wilkes University in Wilkes-Barre, Pa., and a master’s degree from the University of Maryland in College Park.
For more information or for persons with disabilities who require special assistance, call Sandi O’Brien, director of diversity affairs at Morningside, at (712) 274-5123, or the office of public relations at (712) 274-5320.
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