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March 24, 2003 PROMINENT NATIVE AMERICAN ACTIVIST TO SPEAK AT UNM Prominent Native American activist, educator, lawyer and philosopher Vine Deloria, Jr., will speak at the University of New Mexico Friday, March 28, at 6:30 p.m. in the UNM Kiva lecture hall. His talk, "The Passage of Time," is part of the UNM Native American Studies Spring Lecture Series. A reception will be held at NAS at 5:30 p.m. Both events are free and open to the public. Deloria, Jr., of the Yankton Sioux, became well known as a political activist. His books "Custer Died for Your Sins: An Indian Manifesto," and "Behind the Trail of Broken Treaties," and several others, presented the case for Indian self-determination and helped clarify goals of the Native American rights movement. After serving in the Marine Corps. he earned his B.A. from Iowa State University, 1958; B.D. in theology at Augustana Lutheran Seminary in Rock Island, Ill., 1963; and J.D. from the University of Colorado, 1970. Deloria, Jr., has served as chair of the Institute for Development of Indian Law in Washington, D.C.; and as faculty for the University of Arizona and University of Colorado at Boulder Center for Studies of Ethnicity and Race in America. In addition to teaching, he has served in various leadership positions. ###

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