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Serving his fifteenth consecutive term as Chairman of the Federated Indians of Graton Rancheria, Greg Sarris has authored six books including the novel Grand Avenue, adapted into an HBO miniseries that he wrote, directed and produced on-location in his native Santa Rosa. Adopted shortly after his birth by a white couple, Sarris had a difficult childhood moving from one foster family to another and did not connect with his American Indian heritage until the age of twelve.

Moving between his childhood and the present day, Greg meditates deeply on personal and collective traumas to investigate what it means to belong to the place where you live. With warmth, humor, and profound insight he asks what it means to dedicate your life to making that connection stronger, and his questing in Becoming Story, kaleidoscopic in nature, demonstrates the transformational power of storytelling and the extent to which it is needed at this critical juncture in our nation’s timeline.

In conversation with Greg is Ingrid Rojas Contreras, author of the sensational novel Fruit of the Drunken Tree and the forthcoming memoir The Man Who Could Move Clouds, about the magic said to permeate her family and her efforts to trace that lineage to her Indigenous and Spanish roots.

Join Kepler’s for what promises to be a rich discussion on the healing possibilities of art.

Photo of Greg Sarris courtesy of Heyday