UNM Libraries presents 'Indian Education Across the Chalkboard'

University Libraries and the Indigenous Nations Library Program presents its March brown bag discussion titled “Indian Education Across the Chalkboard.” It will focus on the importance of a solid, all encompassing Indian education from early childhood to higher education.

The event will be held Tuesday, March 28 at Zimmerman Library with the lecture scheduled from noon to 1 p.m. in rm. 102, and the panel discussion from 3 to 5 p.m. in the Willard Reading Room.

Invited speakers include Mary Jiron Belgarde, an associate professor in the Department of Language, Literacy, and Sociocultural Studies in UNM's College of Education. Belgarde is well-versed in building charter schools for American Indian students.

Also joining the panel is Rosemary Blanchard, the dean of instruction at Crownpoint Institute of Technology in Crownpoint, N.M., located on the Navajo reservation. Natalie Martinez, a teacher at Independence High School in Rio Rancho, N.M., represents Indian education in public schools and urban settings. Mateo Sanchez, director of the San Felipe Pueblo Department of Education, will provide education strategies at the pueblo.

This event is free and open to the public. For more information, contact April Hale at (505) 277-7433.

Contact: Karen Wentworth, (505) 277-5627; e-mail: kwent2@unm.edu