Book Club's 5th Anniversary

This month we're celebrating the 5-year anniversary of the Calumet and Cross virtual book club! Join us on Wednesday, April 23 (8pm Eastern / 7pm Central Time), for a special evening of games and good company. Winners of our trivia competition will receive prizes! Whether you are new to book club, haven't participated in a while, or have been coming since the beginning, you're invited to join in on the fun!

We will also set aside some time to reflect on the past five years of our amazing book club community. We encourage everyone to come with a favorite memory or reading from book club to share!

Please contact bradley.dubos@calumetandcross.org for the Zoom link.

For those who may not know what book club is all about, below you’ll find a list of the full books we've read so far. We hope you'll join us in the future!

• William DeLoss Love, Samson Occom and the Christian Indians of New England

• Laura Murray (editor), To Do Good to My Indian Brethren: The Writings of Joseph Johnson, 1751-1776

• Joanna Brooks (editor), The Collected Writings of Samson Occom, Mohegan: Literature and Leadership in Eighteenth-Century Native America

• Brad D. E. Jarvis, The Brothertown Nation of Indians: Land Ownership and Nationalism in Early America, 1740-1840

• Will Ottery and Rudi Ottery, A Man Called Sampson, 1580-1989

• Michael Witgen, Seeing Red: Indigenous Land, American Expansion, and the Political Economy of Plunder in North America

• Craig Cipolla, Becoming Brothertown: Native American Ethnogenesis and Endurance in the Modern World

• William Apess, A Son of the Forest

• William Apess, Eulogy on King Philip

• William Apess, Indian Nullification of the Unconstitutional Laws of Massachusetts Relative to the Marshpee Tribe

• Ned Blackhawk, The Rediscovery of America: Native Peoples and the Unmaking of U.S. History

• ...And numerous shorter articles and excerpts, including writing by Courtney Cottrell Gerzetich, Kathleen Brown-Pérez, Caroline Andler, Jim Ottery, Thomas Commuck, and more!