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Meet the Author: "Teaching Native Pride" by Tony Evans
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Nez Perce National Historical Park will host author Tony Evans for a discussion of his book, Teaching Native Pride, on Saturday June 14, 2025, at 1:00 PM PST at the Nez Perce NHP Visitor Center.
Teaching Native Pride tells the story of the federally sponsored "Upward Bound" program at the University of Idaho and its director, Isabel Bond. Intertwining personal anecdotes and memories of many of the students who attended, the book highlights how the program was dedicated to helping low-income and at-risk students attend college. Its curriculum celebrated Native heritage. Many Native students broke cycles of poverty, isolation, and disenfranchisement, while non-Native students gained a new respect for Idaho’s first peoples. The event is free to the public.
Tony Tekaroniake (Two Skies in the Mohawk language) Evans is an author and award-winning journalist/columnist, and writing teacher. His stories have been published in Atmos, A&E Networks’ History.com, High Country News, Smithsonian’s American Indian Magazine, Mountain Gazette, Boise Weekly, Idaho Mountain Express, The Taos News, The Santa Fe New Mexican and other publications.
His books include Teaching Native Pride (WSU Press 2020), Memory and Destiny, The Life of Glenn Janss (Two Skies Books 2021), and A History of Indians in the Sun Valley Area (Blaine County Historical Museum 2014).
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