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Docs and Discussion with WNIT

Pokagon Band of Potawatomi: A Song for Everything
2025-11-17 18:00:00 2025-11-17 20:00:00 America/New_York Docs and Discussion with WNIT WNIT's one hour documentary explores the enduring impact of Potawatomi culture through the Pokagon Band of Potawatomi. Conversation and refreshments to follow. Main Library - Community Learning Center - Leighton Auditorium

Monday, November 17
6:00pm - 8:00pm

Add to Calendar 2025-11-17 18:00:00 2025-11-17 20:00:00 America/New_York Docs and Discussion with WNIT WNIT's one hour documentary explores the enduring impact of Potawatomi culture through the Pokagon Band of Potawatomi. Conversation and refreshments to follow. Main Library - Community Learning Center - Leighton Auditorium

WNIT's one hour documentary explores the enduring impact of Potawatomi culture through the Pokagon Band of Potawatomi. Conversation and refreshments to follow.

WNIT presents Pokagon Band of Potawatomi: A Song for Everything. The documentary explores how culture and language have survived through the pressures of colonialism, government oppression and modern-day life. This is a story about how tribal expressionism and individualism of members combine with culture as a binding force of community. From re-recognition as a sovereign nation to reclaiming identity in contemporary America, culture and language play their part in defining what it means to be a Pokagon citizen and how that perseverance despite a myriad of struggles looks towards the future through art, music, language, knowledge-sharing and tradition.

Schedule: 

Doors open - 5:30pm

Comments and introductions - 6pm

Documentary presentation - 6:15pm

Q&A & Conversation - 7:15pm – 8pm

Event contact: Mel Lutz, (574) 282-4608, m.lutz@sjcpl.org

AGE GROUP: | Adults |

EVENT TYPE: | History & Genealogy | Film & Theatre | Art & Photography |

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