University Libraries will celebrate New Mexico Archives month with a lecture, book signing and reception featuring writer, historian and human rights activist Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz on Tuesday, Oct. 16, from noon to 2 p.m. at the Willard Reading Room in Zimmerman Library. The event is a brown-bag lunch with beverages and dessert provided. It is free and open to the public.
Dunbar-Ortiz will discuss and sign her newly revised book “Roots of Resistance: A History of Land Tenure in New Mexico.” She will talk about the process of writing the book, and the continuing conflict over land tenure in New Mexico and the cultural conflicts that result.
Dunbar-Ortiz grew up in rural Oklahoma, the daughter of a landless farm and half-Indian mother. She grew up listening to stories about her paternal grandfather, a labor activist with the Industrial Workers of the World. Those stories inspired her to a lifetime of activism for social justice.
The event I sponsored by the Center for Southwest Research, Indigenous Nations Library Program and the University Libraries.
Media Contact: Karen Wentworth, (505) 277-5627; e-mail: kwent2@unm.edu