The Quapaw Nation and O-Gah-Pah Communications invite you to a presentation called Culture in Color: Native American Heritage Through Art.
It will take place at 5:30 PM on Thursday, November 20th at the Joplin Public Library.
Barry Linduff with Quapaw Nation tells Newstalk KZRG:
“And it’s definitely a discussion point. And that’s why we encourage everybody to come out because we’re going to have tribal members. We invite them out and we’re going to have the elder. And they love to share the story. And I think it’s important you get to meet some really cool people, hear some really cool stories. And those stories are lost if they’re not shared and you don’t document them and you don’t retain them.”
Linduff continued: “And so it’s a great event. This is something that we aim to be a real community event and be free and be entertaining, yet thought provoking.”
O-Gah-Pah Communications project manager Austin Headley told KZRG:
“So this is our third year back at the Joplin Public Library. This is my first year really spearheading this and setting the theme together. But we’re glad to be back for Native American Heritage Month. This year we’re doing a pop culture art exhibit kind of detailing Native American heritage, specifically Quapaw, but Native America as a whole.”
Headley went on to say: “We got some advertisements throughout the decades making a collage of that, just kind of depicting out how Native Americans were represented in the culture, you know, in the past and kind of where we are now.”