Where the River Bends: Life on the Water in Southeastern Michigan

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Adults
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Where the River Bends: Life on the Water in Southeastern Michigan. Tuesday, February 6, 6:30 p.m. Join Lily Jiale Chen, Assistant Curator at the Detroit Historical Society and Cheyenne Travioli, Lakota oral historian and doctoral student in American Culture at the University of Michigan, in celebrating the history of water in the lives of Michigan’s communities through the centuries. Beginning with the centrality of water for Michigan’s Anishinaabe ancestors and traveling through contemporary water activism, this talk will explore the important role that water has played in Michigan and how we might continue to protect the waters that give our communities life.

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