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*Repost* Storytelling & Dialogue on Indigenous Erasure

Learn from different tribal perspectives about experiences

Location

Performing Arts & Humanities Building : Forum Sculpture (outside)

Date & Time

April 17, 2024, 2:30 pm4:30 pm

Description


Storytelling & Dialogue on Indigenous Erasure

Please join us for a storytelling session and dialogue on experiences of Indigenous erasure from individuals of varying Tribal identities.  

Storytelling Panelists:

Ashley Minner Jones - artist, folklorist, and Enrolled Citizen of the Lumbee Tribe of North Carolina)

Rico Newman - Tribal elder, Choptico Band of Indians

Autumn Powell - M.S. Candidate, Geography and Environmental Systems; and Diné citizen or Citizen of the Navajo Nation

Drew Shuptar - Tribal citizen, Pocomoke Indian Nation)

Joby Taylor - The Shriver Center at UMBC and enrolled citizen of Cherokee Nation of Oklahoma

Yolanda Valencia - Assistant Professor, Geography and Environmental Systems; and Indigenous descendant from the Purépecha lands currently known as Michoacán, Mexico

In case of inclement weather, the event will be relocated to A.O.K. Library Gallery.

Organized by the Department of Geography and Environmental Systems.

Co-sponsored by the Shriver Center, the Center for Social Science Scholarship, the Dresher Center for the Humanities, and the Inclusion Council.