Lane Peace Center is honored to bring Presidential Medal of Freedom recipient Suzan Harjo and Ecotrust Indigenous Conservation Leadership award recipient Dennis Martinez to speak from an indigenous perspective on the historical and contemporary role of Native Americans.
EUGENE, Ore. - The Lane Peace Center's 8th annual peace symposium, "Seeing Red: Indigenous Perspectives on Peace & Justice," will be held at Lane Community College on Thursday, April 30 with a morning session in the Longhouse from 10 a.m. to 12:30 p.m. and an evening session in the Center for Meeting and Learning from 7-9:30 p.m., both on main campus, 4000 E. 30th Avenue, Eugene.
The symposium will focus on the role and experiences of Native Americans in contemporary and historical America with keynote presentations by two prominent American Indians: Suzan Harjo and Dennis Martinez.
President Obama awarded Dr. Harjo the Presidential Medal of Freedom for her work as a writer, curator, and activist, to improve the lives of native peoples. She was a key figure in the passage of the Native American Graves Protection and Repatriation Act and the American Indian Religious Freedom Act. As the founder of the Morning Star Institute she helped to found and curate the Smithsonian National Museum of the American Indian.
Dennis Martinez is the founder of the Indigenous Peoples Restoration Network. He works internationally with community-based indigenous peoples on cultural rights, climate change, eco-cultural restoration, and bridging Western science with traditional ecological knowledge. He is a recipient of an Ecotrust Indigenous Conservation Leadership award for Pacific North America.
The event is free, but seating is limited. The event will be live-streamed. To find complete information about attending or watching the live-stream go to: http://www.lanecc.edu/peacecenter