Native author Julian Brave NoiseCat joins us at the Great Falls Public Library at 1 pm to discuss his latest book We Survived The Night. Cassiopeia Books will be on hand to sell copies of Brave NoiseCat’s book after the talk, as well!

JULIAN BRAVE NOISECAT is a writer, Academy Award-nominated filmmaker, champion powwow dancer, and student of Salish art and history. His writing has appeared in dozens of publications, including The New York Times, The Washington Post and The New Yorker. NoiseCat has been recognized with numerous awards, including the 2022 American Mosaic Journalism Prize and many National Native Media Awards. He was a finalist for the Livingston Award and multiple Canadian National Magazine Awards and was named to the TIME100 Next list in 2021. His first documentary, Sugarcane, was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Documentary. Directed alongside Emily Kassie, Sugarcane premiered at the 2024 Sundance Film Festival, where NoiseCat and Kassie won the Directing Award for U.S. Documentary. NoiseCat is a proud member of the Canim Lake Band Tsq’escen and descendant of the Lil’wat Nation of Mount Currie. We Survived the Night is his first book.

We then invite everyone to join us later in the evening for a FREE showing of Sugarcane at 6 pm at the Lewis and Clark Interpretive Center, with a question and answer period afterward with Brave NoiseCat, who served as a producer on the film. Doors open at 5:30 pm.

Thank you to the Great Falls Public Library Foundation and the Montana Arts Council for sponsoring this event. Additional support from coal tax placed into Montana’s Cultural and Aesthetic Projects Trust Fund.