[Imc] speaker coming up

[Cope Cumpston]

This is timed to coincide with the Board of Trustees meeting where there
*may* be a report on the Chief issue --

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Suzan Shown Harjo (Cheyenne/Hodulgee Muscogee) will be visiting the U of
I campus March 13-14.

Wednesday, March 13 at 8 pm:
"Issues Facing Native Peoples Today"
Unit One, South Rec Room, Allen Hall. The public is invited to all Unit
One events.

Thursday, March 14
12 noon- 12:50pm Brown Bag with Journalism/College of Communications
Gregory Hall 231 (the ICR Conference Room).
"American Indians in the News ---Not!"

Thursday, March 14
4:30 pm
3rd floor
Levis Faculty Center
"The Invisible Minority? Voices and Visions of American Indians Today"
Reception afterward sponsored by Women Against Racism. Everyone is
welcome.

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Suzan Shown Harjo, Executive Director of the Morning Star Institute, is
a leading Native American public figure -- a policy advocate, columnist,
curator and lecturer who has worked to develop key federal Indian law
since 1975 (e.g., 1996 Executive Order on Indian Sacred Sites; 1990
Native American Graves Protection and Repatriation Act; 1989 National
Museum of the American Indian Act; 1978 American Indian Religious
Freedom Act). Ms. Harjo has helped Native Peoples recover more than one
million acres of land and numerous sacred places. She served the Carter
administration as Special Assistant for Indian Legislation & Liaison and
was Principal Author of the 1979 "President's Report to Congress on
American Indian Religious Freedom." She was Executive Director of the
National Congress of American Indians from 1984-1989. Morning Star
Institute sponsored the initial lawsuit which resulted in the
cancellation of the trademarks of Washington's professional football
team. Ms. Harjo is Cheyenne and Hodulgee Muscogee.

For more information contact Brenda Farnell at bfarnell at uiuc.edu or
Carol Spindel at cspindel at uiuc.edu.
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