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Oct. 8, 2003
Recognized Alaskan Author to Speak at Antioch

Seattle — Velma Wallis, an internationally acclaimed writer and recent winner of a National Book Award from the Before Columbus Foundation, will speak at Antioch University Seattle Monday, Oct. 20. Wallis will speak from 4 to 5 p.m. with discussion time afterward. Antioch’s Center for Programs in Education is sponsoring the event, which will take place on campus at 2326 Sixth Ave. in Belltown.

Wallis is an Athabascan Indian from Fort Yukon, a remote village of about 650 people in Northwest Alaska, just a few miles north of the Arctic Circle. She writes poignantly of traditional Athabascan culture and values.

Wallis’ first book, titled “Two Old Women," won a Pacific Northwest Booksellers Association Award and a Western States Book Award. She also is the author of “Bird Girl and the Man Who Followed the Sun" and, most recently, “Raising Ourselves — A Gwich’in Coming-of-Age Story."

About Antioch
The university offers graduate programs and certificates and a bachelor’s degree completion program. It is one of five campuses of Antioch University, founded in 1852 in Yellow Springs.