Greg Sarris celebrates the publication of his new book of stories, The Forgetters, in conversation with Tanya Thrasher at Politics & Prose in Washington, DC.

In-person event. 1324 4th St NE, Washington, DC.

Greg Sarris is currently serving his sixteenth term as Chairman of the Federated Indians of Graton Rancheria and his first term as board chair for the Smithsonian’s National Museum of the American Indian. He is a member of the Board of Regents of the University of California. His publications include Keeping Slug Woman Alive (1993), Grand Avenue (1994, reissued 2015 and adapted for film on HBO), Watermelon Nights (1998, reissued 2021), How a Mountain Was Made (2017), and Becoming Story (2022). Greg lives and works in Sonoma County, California. Visit his website at greg-sarris.com.

Sarris will be in conversation with Tanya Thrasher (Cherokee Nation), Publications Manager for the Smithsonian’s National Museum of the American Indian and Editor-in-Chief of American Indian Magazine. She is co-editor of The Land Has Memory: Indigenous Knowledge, Native Landscapes, and the National Museum of the American Indian.