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Author-Donor Arlene Hirschfelder Visits SRC

(Hirschfelder, Brochstein, Dickman, and Gottileb)

UALR, June 27, 2005. On Friday, June 27, award-winning author Arlene Hirschfelder of Teaneck, New Jersey, visited the Stabler Hall unit of the Sequoyah Research Center (SRC). She was accompanied by Joan Brochstein of Houston, Texas, Susie Dickman of Highland Park, Illinois, and Susan Gottlieb of Wilmette, Illinois.

Life-long friends, the group vacation together each year in a different U. S. city, this year in Little Rock, where they toured the Clinton Presidential Library and Central High School and visited the SRC.

During the past decade, Hirschfelder has donated a significant archival collection related to contemporary Indian affairs and issues to the American Native Press Archives in the SRC. A guide to the Hirschfelder Collection is available at http//:anpa.ualr.edu by clicking on “Manuscripts” and scrolling the alphabet.

Hirschfelder worked for many years at the Association on American Indian Affairs in New York City. Her American Indian and Eskimo Authors: A Comprehensive Bibliography (1973), which she did for that organization, was one of the major resources used by Daniel F. Littlefield and James W. Parins when they began their study of Native America writing, from which the SRC has evolved during the past twenty-five years.

Hirschfelder is author or coauthor of a number of award winning books, including American Indian Stereotypes in the World of Children: A Reader and Bibliography (1982, 1999) with Paulette Fairbanks Molin and Yvonne Wakim, Encyclopedia of Native American Religions: An Introduction (2001) with Molin, Children of Native America Today (2003) with Yvonne Wakim Dennis, Kick Butts!: A Kid’s Action Guide to a Tobacco-Free America (1996, 2001), Native America: A History in Pictures (2000) with Beverly Wright, Photo Odcyssey: Solomon Carvalho’s Remarkable Western Adventure 1853-54 (2000), and Rising Voices: Writings of Young Native Americans (1992, 1993, 1995, 1997), with Beverly R. Singer. In addition, she is author of many more books and other writings.

With Paulette Molin, she is working as curator of an exhibit of Native American art at Colonial Williamsburg. The exhibit, which centers on the theme of Native artists’ responses to stereotyping, is scheduled to open in February 2007.

Photograph credit: Sequoyah Research Center