An established Missouri Humanities Council speaker, Galen Gritts is a registered member of the Cherokee Nation. Born and reared in Missouri, Mr. Gritts has a degree in history from UMSL. He serves on many advisory boards and committees representing Native Americans and is a founding member of the Alliance for Native Programming & Initiatives. He is bemused to nd out he is now an Elder and grateful that he has made it this far. One of his goals when he was young was to be old.
Email: ghominy@gmail.com
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Available Presentations (h3 text)
Available Presentations
Forgotten Trunk in the Attic
Missouri, like most states in the center of the U.S., has no extant tribes like some other states have. Therefore, the knowledge of either the history of Natives, or the experience of contemporary Native Americans, is one step further removed from people's consciousness. Using startling facts as stepping stones to fascinating and forgotten stories, this presentation starts to remedy this phenomenon.
Being Cherokee
People are fascinated by Native Americans and the Cherokee tribe in particular. There are 574 federally recognized tribes - one of them has to garner the most attention and alas, it is the Cherokee. Many Natives, from any tribe, has heard a white person tell the myth of the Cherokee grandmother climbing the family tree. As so many people think of Native people as frozen in time in a John Ford western, their wonderment of hearing from a contemporary Cherokee is boundless. History, personal stories, hidden truths, and more are the backbone of this presentation.
Program Underwriting
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Program Underwriting
Each speaker can provide up to four presentations to underserved rural communities at no cost to the hosting institution. For the presentation to be covered by program underwriting, the host organization must be nonprofit and located outside Boone, Greene, Jackson, and St. Louis counties and outside the city of St. Louis.
For presentations that qualify for program underwriting, there is no cost to the host organization. The number of underwritten presentations this speaker has remaining is indicated below.
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