Author to review book on June 14 The Nez Perce National Historical Park will host author Tony Evans for a discussion of his book Teaching Native Pride Saturday June 14, 2025 at 1:00 PM PDT at the Spalding Visitor Center. Teaching Native Pride tells the story of the federally sponsored Upward Bound program at the University of Idaho and it’s director, Isabel Bond. Intertwining personal anecdotes and memories of many of the students who attended, the book highlights how the program was dedicated to helping low-income and at-risk students attend college. Its curriculum celebrated Native heritage. Many Native students broke cycles of poverty, isolation, and disenfranchisement, while non-Native students gained a new respect for Idaho’s first peoples. The event is free to the public. Tony Tekaroniake (Two Skies in the Mohawk language) Evans is an author and award-winning journalist/columnist, and writing teacher. His stories have been published in Atmos, A&E Networks’ History.com, High Country News, Smithsonian’s American Indian Magazine, Mountain Gazette, Boise Weekly, Idaho Mountain Express, The Taos News, The Santa Fe New Mexican and other publications. Specializing in "people stories," also travel, art and book reviews, local government reporting, and religion reporting, nonprofits and agriculture. I’ve won 54 Idaho Press Club awards, including fourteen 1st prizes and hit 3,000 deadlines for published news and magazine articles over the past 25 years. For 18 years I have reported for my hometown newspaper The Idaho Mountain Express, which won the top prize for local news reporting and general excellence in the US in 2019 from the National Newspaper Association. His books include “Teaching Native Pride” (WSU Press 2020), “Memory and Destiny, The Life of Glenn Janss” (Two Skies Books 2021) and “A History of Indians in the Sun Valley Area” (Blaine County Historical Museum 2014). Nez Perce National Historical Park’s Spalding Visitor Center is located 12 miles east of Lewiston at 39063 U.S. Highway 95. Park admission is free year round. For more information, please contact Nez Perce National Historical Park at 208-843-7001, or visit www.nps.gov/nepe or www.facebook.com/NezPerceNationalHistoricalPark  | COTTONWOOD
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