Contact:	Glenabah Martinez (505) 277-3917 Laurie Mellas-Ramirez, 277-5915
April 8, 2002 TALK ON ECUADOR'S INDIGENOUS MOVEMENT CLOSES UNM NATIVE AMERICAN LECTURE SERIES Luis Macas, former president of the Confederation of Indigenous Nationalities of Ecuador (CONAIE) will give a lecture on "Ethnopolitics in Ecuador: The Indigenous Movement," Thursday, April 25 at 11 a.m. in Woodward Hall, rm.147, sponsored by the Native American Studies Program and Alfonso Ortiz Center at the University of New Mexico. The talk is the final lecture in a UNM Native American Studies spring series. Fulbright Scholar in Residence at the Alfonso Ortiz Center Yolanda Teran will join Macas for a second lecture, "Ecuadorian Cosmology From the Male and Female Perspective," at 7 p.m. that evening in the same location. Macas is an indigenous leader and activist from Saraguro, Ecuador. His accomplishments include being the first indigenous lawyer in Ecuador, first indigenous deputy of the National Congress of Ecuador and founder of the first scientific indigenous institute in Ecuador. He is the author of La Caida del Presidente Bucaram. Macas works as an advocate and activist to exercise autonomy in all sectors of indigenous life in Ecuador, including ecology, indigenous land rights, education and culture. Woodward Hall is located south of the humanities building on main campus. For more information, call Native American Studies at 277-3917. ###

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