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<font size=-1>This is timed to coincide with the Board of Trustees meeting
where there *may* be a report on the Chief issue --</font><font size=-1></font>
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<p><font face="Times, Times"><font size=-1>Suzan Shown Harjo (</font></font>Cheyenne/Hodulgee
Muscogee)<font face="Times, Times"><font size=-1> will be visiting the
U of I campus March 13-14.</font></font>
<p><b><font face="Times, Times"><font size=-1>Wednesday, March 13 at 8
pm:</font></font></b>
<br><font face="Times, Times"><font size=-1>"Issues Facing Native Peoples
Today"</font></font>
<br><font face="Times, Times"><font size=-1>Unit One, South Rec Room, Allen
Hall. The public is invited to all Unit One events.</font></font>
<p><b><font face="Times, Times"><font size=-1>Thursday, March 14</font></font></b>
<br><font face="Palatino"><font size=-1>12 noon- 12:50pm Brown Bag with
Journalism/College of Communications</font></font>
<br>Gregory Hall 231 (the ICR Conference Room).
<br>"American Indians in the News ---Not!"
<p><b>Thursday, March 14</b>
<br><b>4:30 pm</b>
<br><b>3rd floor</b>
<br><b>Levis Faculty Center</b>
<br><b>"The Invisible Minority? Voices and Visions of American Indians
Today"</b>
<br><b>Reception afterward sponsored by Women Against Racism. Everyone
is welcome.</b>
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<p><font face="Times, Times"><font size=-1><b>Suzan Shown</b> Harjo</font></font>,
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.
<p>For more information contact Brenda Farnell at bfarnell@uiuc.edu or
Carol Spindel at cspindel@uiuc.edu.
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