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Events are free and open to the public unless otherwise specified.
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Presidential Events Series, Fall 2026 through Spring 2027
An evening with Deborah Jackson Taffa
7 p.m., Wednesday, September 16, 2026
Fox Hall
The event will be free and open to the public.
Deborah Jackson Taffa’s Whiskey Tender is a memoir of family and survival, coming of age on and off the reservation, and the frictions between mainstream American culture and Native inheritance, assimilation and reverence for tradition.
- Finalist for the National Book Award
- Longlisted for a Carnegie Medal for Excellence
- Winner of the Southwest Book Award
- A Best Book of the Year: Washington Post, Esquire, Time, The Atlantic, NPR, and Publishers Weekly
- A New York Times “New Book to Read”
