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SUMMARY:Marcie Rendon | Creating Cash Blackbear: Understanding the Woman B
 ehind the Badge
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DTSTAMP:20260312T100900Z
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LOCATION:400 Eau Claire Street\nEau Claire WI 54701
ROOM: Riverview Room (Room 306)
DESCRIPTION:A part of the 2025 Chippewa Valley Book Festival!Marcie Ren
 don, a celebrated member of the White Earth Nation and award‑winning pla
 ywright and poet, will delve into the creation of her breakout character, 
 Cash Blackbear—a tough, intuitive young Ojibwe woman whose roots in rura
 l 1970s Minnesota have resonated deeply with Midwestern readers. Attendees
  will gain a deeper understanding of Rendon’s process for crafting authe
 ntic Native American characters—mothers, laborers, survivors—imbued wi
 th grit, insight, and cultural resonance.About the AuthorMARCIE R. RENDON,
  citizen of the White Earth Nation, is the best-selling author of Where Th
 ey Last Saw Her, and acclaimed author of the Cash Blackbear crime series, 
 the most recent of which is Broken Fields.Rendon's poetry, Anishinaab
 e Songs for the New Millennium, was released in 2024; and Stitches of Trad
 ition, a picture book was released in October 2024.Mni Giizhik Theater is 
 producing Rendon’s scripts Say Their Names and Sweet Revenge in 2025 and
  2026.Rendon was the 2020 Minnesota’s McKnight Artist of the Year, she w
 as named a “50 Over 50: 2018 Arts Honoree” change-maker by Minnesota A
 ARP and POLLEN in 2018, and was listed in Oprah’s 2020 list of 31 Native
  American Authors to read.Learn more about Marcie Rendon at marcierendon.c
 om.
URL:https://lephillips.librarycalendar.com/event/marcie-rendon
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