Visiting Writers Series Angel Sobotta

Virtual Reading and Q&A with Angel Sobotta, poet, playwright and master storyteller

TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 7TH | 6:00 P.M. | YOUTUBE 

Angel Sobotta is an enrolled member of the Nez Perce Tribe, language revitalizationist, master storyteller, poet, and playwright. She has worked for the Nez Perce Language since 1998, serving as a coordinator and teaching language at Lapwai schools, the mamayá’snim hitéemenwees – Children’s Learning place,  Kamiah and Clearwater Valley schools,  Northwest Indian College, Lewis-Clark State College, the University of Idaho, and Washington State University. Sobotta’s research is Titwáatit, Nimipuutímt, Wéetes: Ceptemelíxnikt Nimipuuwíitki kaa Cukwenéewit – The Stories, Niimíipuu Language, Land: Investigating the Nez Perce People’s Way of Thinking and Knowing. She is a member of Luk’upsíimey – NorthStar Collective, which revitalizes language creatively through writing. Sobotta has numerous speaking presentations for the Nez Perce Appaloosa Horse Club, discussing family history and cultural stories on YouTube and PBS. She has publications in Nez Perce Women’s Writers Institute Anthology NPWWI (2018), Yellow Medicine Review (2020), and a chapbook with Luk’upsíimey: The North Star Collective (2022).