Community Living Room - Karen Smith, Diné Poet & Storyteller

Community Living Room is a free, monthly program featuring an interesting local with something to share – rather like a visit with a fascinating neighbor, but at the library.

More from July presenter, Karen Smith: “I am blessed to call these sacred and holy Ancestral migration pathways and homeland right here at the base of Diné’s western protector mother, Dookoosliid, Home. I am grateful and honored to be asked to share some experiences, stories and writings that have been shaped by my Indigeneity so that I can stand with my True self without the historical and generational shame and traumas resulting from the life-denying internalized colonial and conquesting white supremacist and paternalistic racism. It is a true honor to not just write these words but then to say them aloud. I am not only healing myself but my beloved Ancestry as well.”