Award-winning author and 2022 Festival of Books presenter Traci Sorell, a citizen of the Cherokee Nation, talks about her commitment to representing contemporary Native people in her books and the importance of diversity throughout children’s literature.

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Scholar: Lawrence Diggs with Traci Sorell

Sponsored By: South Dakota Humanities Council

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Brad Tennant will lead a virtual discussion on the 2022 One Book South Dakota, Our History Is the Future, by Nick Estes.

Scholar: Brad Tennant

Sponsored by: Edith B. Siegrist Vermillion Public Library

For more information, contact: Kendra Brewer <kendra.brewer@vermillionpubliclibrary.org>

This event is created for OLLI members, but guests will be welcome.
Sharon Olbertson will lead a virtual discussion on the 2022 One Book South Dakota, Our History Is the Future, by Nick Estes.

Scholar: Sharon Olbertson

Sponsored by: Osher Lifelong Learning Institute

For more information, contact: Thea Miller Ryan <thea.ryan@usd.edu>

What is the South Dakota Humanities Council?
SDHC staff members introduce themselves and talk about what they do, the resources available through SDHC, and how you can get involved with the organization.

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Scholar: Lawrence Diggs with SDHC Staff Members

Sponsored By: South Dakota Humanities Council

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#30Days30Stories: Let’s Do More to Prevent Suicide, hosted by Lost&Found, will use digital media along with community events throughout the state to highlight the current needs for suicide prevention statewide – and the hope we can find in shared stories.

Lost&Found is an organization dedicated to suicide prevention, awareness, and postvention services for youth and young adults in South Dakota. Building on its first #30Days30Stories campaign during National Suicide Prevention Month in 2021, Lost&Found will once share the stories of 30 youth and young adults from South Dakota who have discovered resilience and hope in the face of mental health conditions and suicide in their communities.

All events will be in-person with live recording available after the event.

Event Host:  Joel Kaskinen
This event will feature Gabe Dannenbring

Sponsored by: Lost&Found

For more information, contact: Erik Muckey <emuckey@resilienttoday.org>

Lori Walsh will lead a virtual discussion on the 2022 One Book South Dakota, Our History Is the Future, by Nick Estes.

Scholar: Lori M. Walsh

Sponsored By: First Presbyterian Readers Group

For more information, contact: Linda Rasmussen <dlrasmussen@sio.midco.net>

Location: BHSU Student Engagement and Leadership Center, BHSU Student Union
This event takes place at 10:00 am MT

#30Days30Stories: Let’s Do More to Prevent Suicide, hosted by Lost&Found, will use digital media along with community events throughout the state to highlight the current needs for suicide prevention statewide – and the hope we can find in shared stories.

Lost&Found is an organization dedicated to suicide prevention, awareness, and postvention services for youth and young adults in South Dakota. Building on its first #30Days30Stories campaign during National Suicide Prevention Month in 2021, Lost&Found will once share the stories of 30 youth and young adults from South Dakota who have discovered resilience and hope in the face of mental health conditions and suicide in their communities.


All events will be in-person with live recording available after the event.

Event Host:  Joel Kaskinen
This event will feature Jake Danielson    .

Sponsored by: Lost&Found

For more information, contact: Erik Muckey <emuckey@resilienttoday.org>

Patrick Hicks will discuss how this notorious concentration camp grew in size from 1939 until 1945, and talk about what it means for us today. He may also discuss his novel, The Commandant of Lubizec, which is based upon Auschwitz and the other Operation Reinhard camps. Photos of the camp and discussion are usually part of this accessible talk.

Scholar: Patrick Hicks

Sponsored by: Geddes Historical Society

For more information, contact: Ron Dufek <dufsdfek@midstatesd.net>

From “A Cowboy’s Prayer” to “Cat Pioneers” — Badger Clark poems as nighthawk tunes.

Scholar: Michael McDonald

Sponsored by: Spearfish Senior Citizen Center

For more information, contact: Stephanie Crago <sscdirector@rushmore.com>

In this 10-week virtual class, learn about the differences between historic sites and monuments, what makes some of them so controversial, and how we can better understand each situation.

Scholar: Raffi Andonian

Sponsored by: Humanities North Dakota

For more information and to register: https://www.humanitiesnd.org/event-details/conflicts-in-history-and-memory-of-americana

Tuesdays: September 13, 20, 27; October 4, 11, 18, 25; November 1, 8, 15

6:30 – 8:30 pm CST

As the South Dakota Festival of Books prepares to celebrate its 20^thanniversary, frequent presenters Patrick Hicks, Jim Reese & Christine Stewart-Nuñez look back on their Festival experiences and consider the event’s impact on readers and writers throughout the region.

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Scholar: Lawrence Diggs with Patrick Hicks and Christine Stewart-Nuñez

Sponsored By: South Dakota Humanities Council

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This PowerPoint presentation exposes the secret that Webster, SD citizen Doc Sorbel hid all his life. Asle Oscar Sorbel, the 17-year-old lad then living in Madelia, MN and responsible for the capture of the Younger Brothers of the infamous Jesse James outlaw gang in 1876 … quickly and judiciously disappeared. After several years, he would reappear in Webster, SD and spend the rest of his life as the eminent area “horse doctor”, harboring his secret until the year before he died in 1930.

Scholar: Arley Fadness

Sponsored by: Museum of Wildlife, Science & Industry

For more information, contact: Duane Anderson <lake@abe.midco.net>

To help you prepare a competitive grant application, SDHC invites you to join us for a virtual grant writing workshop.  This workshop will introduce you to SDHC’s grant opportunities and teach you how to submit a competitive proposal.

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Hosted by:  The South Dakota Humanities Council

For more information, contact:  Melinda Berdanier <melinda@sdhumanities.org>

Mara Buchbinder is the first author and speaker featured as part of a series of common readings to guide participants as they consider differing perspectives on health humanities and the ways that these insights might apply to their own lives and communities.  Mara will be speaking about her most recent book, Scripting Death: Stories of Assisted Dying in America (2021).


This event is in person but will also be live-streamed at the following link: https://youtu.be/OYn_9tu3QNc.


Sponsored by: USD Wegner Health Sciences Library

For more information, contact: Anna Simonson <Anna.Simonson@usd.edu>

Our History Is the Future Presentation with author Nick Estes

Location: Farber Hall in Old Main,Vermillion

Coordinator: John A. Little, john.little@usd.edu

Sponsored by: USD Office of Native Recruitment & AlumniEngagement

Kathy Antonen will lead a virtual discussion on the 2022 One Book South Dakota, Our History Is the Future, by Nick Estes.

Scholar: Kathy Antonen

Sponsored by: Tripp County Library Grossenburg Memorial

For more information, contact: Misti Burns <tclib@gwtc.net>

This conference is an academic and professional history conference to celebrate the centennial of the History M.A. Program at the University of South Dakota.

Sponsored by: USD – History Department

For more information, contact Molly Rozum molly.rozum@usd.edu

When fourteen-year-old Carson Fielding buys his first horse—a run-down, wild-eyed
roan—from the wealthiest rancher in his South Dakota border town, he learns a hard
lesson about dealing with powerful men. Conflicts arise, and with the help from friends at
the nearby Lakota Indian reservation, Carson challenges the ranchers’ rule, fiercely
determined to protect what he holds most dear.
Author Kent Meyers will discuss his book The Work of Wolves as the culminating event of the Sturgis Public Library’s city-wide read.

Scholar: Kent Meyers

Sponsored by: Sturgis Public Library

For more information, contact: Christopher Hahn <chahn@sturgisgov.com>

The immigrant experience comes to life in this three-person readers’ theater program created by Dr. Wayne Knutson. Content comes directly from an extensive collection of letters written over a fifty-year period between two brothers, one who emigrated to Dakota Territory and one who stayed in Norway. 
This is our harvest festival which has about 1000+ attendees. During the day we provide the history of the garden, have the garden plowed by horses, speakers, reenactors, etc. The focus is family, kids and adults.

Scholars: John and Jane Rasmussen, Curtis Dahl

Sponsored by: Fort Sisseton Historic State Park

For more information, contact: Ali Tonsfeldt <alicia.tonsfeldt@state.sd.us>

As residents and visitors walk the George S. Mickelson Trail in the Black Hills, conversation often turns to the trail’s railroad history. South Dakota State Railroad Museum Curator Rick Mills provides a PowerPoint program detailing the Trail’s 110 miles of history in photos and stories – stretching from Edgemont to the terminus at Deadwood.

Scholar: Rick W. Mills

Sponsored by: Custer County Senior Citizen Center

For more information, contact: Roxanne Horkey <cscdirector@gwtc.net>

Have you always wanted to record your memories onto paper so your family can cherish your stories for years to come? This workshop provides writing prompts which encourage participants to pen their life memories through sensory detail. Creative writing has many benefits aside from preserving valuable memories. It helps sharpen the mind and provides a therapeutic outlet for emotions. For the workshop, please have access to a notebook and pen or a Word program on your computer. All ages of adults are welcome to attend.

Scholar: Molly Barari

Sponsored by: Minneluzahan Senior Citizens Center

For more information, contact: Mark Rambow <msccrcdirector@gmail.com>

In this 10-week virtual class, learn about the differences between historic sites and monuments, what makes some of them so controversial, and how we can better understand each situation.

Scholar: Raffi Andonian

Sponsored by: Humanities North Dakota

For more information and to register: https://www.humanitiesnd.org/event-details/conflicts-in-history-and-memory-of-americana

Tuesdays: September 13, 20, 27; October 4, 11, 18, 25; November 1, 8, 15

6:30 – 8:30 pm CST

Live from the Festival of Books
Lawrence Diggs talks to Jennifer Widman and Festival authors live from the Washington Pavilion.


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Scholar: Lawrence Diggs with Jennifer Widman and guest authors

Sponsored By: South Dakota Humanities Council

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Hispanic culture and history
• Ten different journeys over a thirty-year period
• Mexico, Guatemala, Belize, Honduras, Nicaragua and Costa Rica
• Three-month bicycle tour, snorkeling trips, ocean kayaking trips
• Numerous explorations of Maya ruins and pyramids
• Maya culture today, the largest group of Native Americans in North America
• Day of the Dead and other traditional festivals
• Religious celebrations, folk art and colorful highland markets

This is the Codington County Historical Society’s fall meeting. A dinner is followed by the program. Our audience is Historical Society members and other guests from the local and surrounding communities.

Scholars: Bruce Junek and Tass Thacker

Sponsored by: Codington County Historical Society

For more information, contact: Claudia Brunick-Spieker <claudia@cchsmuseum.org>

Have you always wanted to record your memories onto paper so your family can cherish your stories for years to come? This workshop provides writing prompts which encourage participants to pen their life memories through sensory detail. Creative writing has many benefits aside from preserving valuable memories. It helps sharpen the mind and provides a therapeutic outlet for emotions. For the workshop, please have access to a notebook and pen or a Word program on your computer. All ages of adults are welcome to attend.

Scholar: Molly Barari

Sponsored by: Chautauqua Craftsmen & Artisans of The Black Hills

For more information, contact: Terry Slagel <terryslagel@yahoo.com>

In this 10-week virtual class, learn about the differences between historic sites and monuments, what makes some of them so controversial, and how we can better understand each situation.

Scholar: Raffi Andonian

Sponsored by: Humanities North Dakota

For more information and to register: https://www.humanitiesnd.org/event-details/conflicts-in-history-and-memory-of-americana

Tuesdays: September 13, 20, 27; October 4, 11, 18, 25; November 1, 8, 15

6:30 – 8:30 pm CST

This event takes place from 12:00 pm – 2:00 pm Mountain Time.

The Lakota Language Consortium will create and the first ever-intermediate to advanced reader in the Lakota language.  The reader will anthologize 64 texts about Lakota mythology and history, documented by Lakota anthropologist Ella Deloria.  Each story will include a glossary and culturally appropriate illustrations.  This classroom resource will improve Lakota students’ reading comprehension and writing skills by providing them longer, more complex reading material.


Attendees will receive a copy of the new book Lakota Stories. Due to the ongoing COVID pandemic, registration is required at the door and COVID guidelines will be followed. 

Scholars:  Efforts to translate by Jan Ullrich, Ben Black Bear, Alex Fire Thunder and Rick Two Dogs.  

Sponsored by:  The Lakota Language Consortium

For more information, contact:  Jamie Marquez <jamie@lakhota.org>

Familial identity theft occurs when an individual obtains and uses the personal identifying information of a relative without his/her consent for personal gain. This is an often-unreported crime, yet the financial, emotional, and physical impacts victims experience are often long-lasting. In this presentation, common themes in familial identity theft victims’ experiences will be shared, supported by the voices of real victims.

This is the South Dakota Library Association’s annual conference. Betz-Hamilton will be the first speaker right after the pre-conference.

Scholar: Axton Betz-Hamilton

Sponsored by: South Dakota Library Association

For more information, contact: Shari Theroux <shari.theroux@sdstate.edu>

Lawrence Diggs talks to Ann Volin (SDHC) and Gwen McCausland (SD Agricultural Heritage Museum) about the recently opened Crossroads: Change in Rural America traveling exhibit.

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Scholar: Lawrence Diggs with Ann Volin and Gwen McCausland

Sponsored By: South Dakota Humanities Council

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