![]() ![]() ![]() We secured a grant from the Madison Public Library Foundation to fund the pilot. ![]() Our partners approved the language for the call for applications, suggested places to advertise, and shared this information within the Ho-Chunk community. Together, MPL and Ho-Chunk Gaming drafted a plan for a three-month pilot residency that would include programs and interactive elements that could be shaped by a storyteller’s unique skills and experiences. She proposed a residency program similar to one she had seen at Vancouver (B.C.) Public Library and also to our library’s established artist-in-residence program. Instead, they told us, they would like to interact with the library more regularly.Ĭommunity Engagement Librarian Neeyati Shah approached leaders at Ho-Chunk Gaming Madison, owned by the Ho-Chunk Nation, to explore ideas. Through conversations with our partners in the local Indigenous community, we learned there was little support among them for a single, yearly celebration of Native American Heritage Month in November. In recent years, our programming efforts have followed a model that encourages staffers to connect with local communities and partners and amplify their voices through collaboration. The first installment, “Ho-Chunk through Story: The Origin, the Wayz, and the Life,” debuted last fall.Īt MPL, taking a conscious approach to diversifying our collection, staff, and services has been essential to our mission. To promote intercultural understanding, Madison Public Library (MPL) introduced a three-month Native storyteller-in-residence program. Today, the rich history and ongoing traditions of the Ho-Chunk Nation in Madison are often overlooked. The tribe was forced to cede its territory in 1832, and in the decades that followed, state and federal governments violently removed the Ho-Chunk people from their lands in Wisconsin. Madison, Wisconsin, is on land that is the ancestral home of the Ho-Chunk people. “Andi” Cloud, leads a harvest walk in the city’s Edna Taylor Conservation Park last fall. Madison (Wis.) Public Library's first Native Storyteller-in-Residence,Ī. ![]()
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