Feel Good Friday: Feel Good Frybread
It’s finally Friday, and you deserve to Feel Good! November is Feel Good Frybread: The Office of Multi-Ethnic Student Affairs’ Native American Heritage Month Committee, U-M’s Native American Student Association, and UMMA invite you to an evening celebrating Indigenous students and communities. And yes, frybread!
Join us for a free performance by Mato Wayuhi (Oglala Lakota), composer for the award winning FX/Hulu series Reservation Dogs, screenings of Living in Balance: Anishinaabe Star Knowledge, frybread by Eva and Robin Menefee of Anishnabe Meejim, book giveaways, hands-on art activities, and more!
SCHEDULE Of EVENTS:
- All Night
Planetarium Show with Living in Balance: Anishinaabe Star KnowledgeFrybread Giveaway with Anishnabe Meejim
Community Tables
Screen Printing with Heron Hill Designs
IndigiLit Book Giveaway with Ariel Ojibway
- 7:00pm
Manoomin’s Journey: Wild Rice & the Anishinaabe People Crankie Box Show - 7:30pm
Book Reading with Stacie Sheldon - 8:00pm – 8:45pm
Performance by Zoon - 9:00pm – 10:00pm
Performance by Mato Wayuhi
Special Guests & Performers
Mato Wayuhi
Mato Wayuhi is an Oglala Lakota artist originally from South Dakota. He works in film/TV both as an actor, producer and musical composer, as well as writing his own music. Most notably, Mato is the composer for the award-winning FX/Hulu series Reservation Dogs.
He is also featured on the 2023 Forbes 30 Under 30 list for Hollywood & Entertainment. His most recent album STANKFACE STANDING SOLDIER is an entirely self-produced record, which Forbes calls a “masterpiece that revolutionizes Indigenous music into a new era.”
Zoon
Zoon aka Daniel Glen Monkman’s (Brokenhead Ojibway Nation) audio manipulation and song writing explores the Indigenous experience on Turtle Island through sound & vision through a genre they call “moccasingaze”. Recent releases are: sterling murmuration, bleached wavves, sewn back together. and most recently Bekka Ma’iingan, a collaboration with Lee Ranaldo of Sonic Youth.
Their music has been nominated for JUNO and Polaris music awards, and has repeatedly topped the lists of Earshot and CBC national charts.
Stacie Sheldon
Heron Hill Designs
Ariel Ojibway
Living in Balance: Anishinaabe Star Knowledge
Manoomin’s Journey: Wild Rice & the Anishinaabe People
More About This Event Series
SUPPORT
This program is presented in partnership with the Native American Student Association, Native American Heritage Month Committee and the Office for Multi-Ethnic Student Affairs. Generously supported by Rackham Graduate School, Hatcher Graduate Library, Arts Initiative, U-M Native American Studies Program, and SMTD.