‘Smoke Signals’ director Alexie to speak

Native American filmmaker Sherman Alexie will speak about ‘Killing Indians: Myths, Lies and Exaggerations’ Thursday, March 2, at 7:30 p.m. in the Wisconsin Union Theater.

The lecture is free; tickets are available first to UW–Madison students, faculty and staff and Wisconsin Union members Thursday, Feb. 24 at the Union Theater Box Office. Tickets will be available to the general public Monday, Feb. 28.

A strong voice for Native Americans as a Coeur d’Alene tribe member, Alexie wrote and produced the award-winning “Smoke Signals” in 1998. To commemorate his visit, “Smoke Signals” will be shown Monday, Feb. 28, at 7:30 p.m. in Tripp Commons, Memorial Union.

Alexie also won accolades for poetry, short stories and fiction about identity, alienation and racial hatred. Alexie’s “The Lone Ranger” and “Tonto Fistfight in Heaven,” “The Business of Fancydancing” and “Reservation Blues” have all won major literary awards.

Box office hours are Monday-Friday, 11:30 a.m.-5:30 p.m.; Saturday, noon-5 p.m. Phone: (608) 262-2201.

The series for this academic year concludes with noted historian Howard Zinn April 18. For information, contact Alden Oreck, (608) 262-2216; azoreck@students.wisc.edu.