
The University of New Mexico
NEWS RELEASE
Media Contact : Karen Wentworth (505) 277-5627, kwent2@unm.edu
September 11, 2006
“Border Issues and an Indigenous Community” Topic of Medicine Wheel Lecture
The Indigenous Nations Library Program at University Libraries is sponsoring the first fall Medicine Wheel Lecture on “Border Issues and an Indigenous Community” on Wednesday, September 20, 2006 from 3 p.m. – 5 p.m. in the Willard Reading Room in the West Wing of Zimmerman Library on the UNM main campus.
Speakers will discuss the struggles of indigenous nations who have borders placed on them. Topics will include how borders and border patrol units, drug trafficking and illegal border crossing affect everyday life. A Brown Bag Lunch on the same topic will take place from 12 noon to 1 p.m. in the Herzstein Reading Room on the 2nd floor of Zimmerman Library.
Featured Speakers include Robert Cruz, O'odham tribal member, UNM Graduate Student and representative to the American Indian Movement (AIM) Governing Council; Ophelia Rivas, O'odham tribal member, founder of O'odham Voice Against the Wall, advocating for elders and ceremony leaders for safe border crossing, delegate to the United Nations Permanent Forum for Indigenous Issues; and Dr. Eulynda Toledo Benalli, Diné tribal member, Language Literacy & Social Cultural Studies Program, steering committee member of the Boarding School Healing Project, and co-founder of First Nations North & South.
Both the brown bag lunch and lecture are free and open to the public.
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