NOTE: This event has been postponed until spring. Information will be made available when the event is rescheduled.
SKOWHEGAN — A traditional and contemporary program of Native American storytelling and song with John Bear Mitchell is set for 6 p.m. Thursday, Dec. 12, at the Margaret Chase Smith Library, 56 Norridgewock Ave.
Mitchell is a citizen of the Penobscot Nation from Indian Island. His singing and storytelling has been featured on Maine PBS, tribal-sponsored awareness videos, independent film, HBO Lionsgate TV, and many documentaries with topics on Maine’s native people, according to a news release from the Skowhegan History House Museum & Research Center.
Mitchell serves as the University of Maine System Office Native American waiver and educational program coordinator and the University of Maine’s Wabanaki Center outreach and student development coordinator. He is also a lecturer of Wabanaki studies and multicultural studies at the University of Maine at Orono.
This program, sponsored by the center, concludes its Wabanaki Voices Speaker Series.
For more information, visit skowheganhistoryhouse.org.