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The Native American Studies Program is hosting a presentation by Eric Gansworth, Eel clan, enrolled Onondaga, born and raised at the Tuscarora Nation.The term "Apple" is a slur in Native communities across the country. It's for someone supposedly "red on the outside, white on the inside." In his poetic, illustrated memoir, Apple: Skin to the Core, Eric Gansworth tells his story, the story of his family - of Onondaga among Tuscaroras - of Native folks everywhere. From the horrible legacy of the government boarding schools, to a boy watching his siblings leave and return and leave again, to a young man fighting to be an artist -- literary and visual -- who balances multiple worlds. As he covers these topics, Gansworth discusses common slurs against Indigenous Americans, shattering and reclaiming "Apple" in verse, prose and imagery that truly lives up to the word heartbreaking.This event is open to the Colgate community and the public.Co-sponsored by the Colgate Arts Council, the Fund for the Study of the World’s Religions, the Department of English, Core Communities, and the ALANA Cultural Center