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***********1992 NATIVE AMERICANA ISSUES LECTURE SERIES*********
A lecture series by leading native rights and
environmental activist Walt Bresette, a Lake Superior
Chippewa from the Red Cliff Reservation in northern
Wisconsin. Bresette's analysis and biting commentary
always brings a fresh and unique view to the many
issues of our time.
AMERICA DISCOVERS COLUMBUS
A unique native perspective of the 1992 Quincentenary review of
the Christopher Columbus voyage. Bresette calls for broader
analysis of the 1492 event and challenges his audience to "become
native Americans" and help America to discover America.
MULTICULTURALISM
Bresette has spent the past decade doing multicultural
networking. He believes that minority issues need to be placed in
a larger societal and political context. He has founded numerous
groups where people of diverse cultural backgrounds work
together.
INDIAN TREATIES AND ECOLOGY
As an activist Bresette brings native rights and environrnental
issues together as one. In his writings he has demonstrated how
local government, native communities and private industry must
cooperate in order for any of them to achieve economic stability
and ecological health.
THREATS TO RURAL AMERICA
Bresette has identified four distinct forces which are impacting
rural America. In a case study of northern Wisconsin, he argues
that Misinformation, Intimidation, Gentrification, and
Colonization are the underlying forces facing rural America.
CHIPPEWA SPEARFISHING
Beginning in 1983 the Chippewa of Wisconsin have faced violent
reactions to their attempts to exercise treaty rights. Bresette
was there, first as a reporter and eventually as a pro-treaty
organizer. He is currently coauthoring a book of this
spearfishing experience which is due out the summer of 1992.
CULTURE AND LIFESTYLE
Bresette is partners in an arts and crafts store and was
cofounder of the Woodland Indian Craft Marketing Cooperative. He
is an artist and during the summer travels throughout the Midwest
to traditional gatherings and pow wows. He is currently working
on a number of monographs of craftspeople, historic figures and
storytellers.
A NATIVE VIEW OF GREEN POLITICS
He has founded the Lake Superior Greens and helped form both the
Wisconsin Greens and the Upper Great Lakes Green Network. He
brings a unique analysis to the emerging Green ecological
movement. Bresette was the 1990 keynote speaker at the national
Greens gathering.
UNDER HOUSE ARREST
Bresette looks at a number of cases of native people who have
been targeted because of their political activisms. He looks in
depth at the ongoing saga of Leonard Peltier, a native serving
two life sentences resulting from political activism of the
American Indian Movement at Wounded Knee, S.D.
THE WARRIOR MYTHOLOGY
A look at the contradictions on today's modern native villages
and the conflict of support for U.S. foreign policy with a
personal insight to the Persian Gulf war and Central American
policy. He looks at traditional tools of society and how they
have been effectively or maladapted to today's concerns.
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* Native Americana Lecture Series 1992 *
* The above topics have been the most popular *
* in recent years. If you have a special topic, *
* lectures or workshops can be adapted to suit *
* your needs. For reduced fees write or call to *
* see if Walt Bresette is already scheduled to *
* be in your area; also references for other *
* speakers/presenters available. *
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A Decade of Activism
FOUNDER: Lake Superior Greens; Witness For Non-violence;
COFOUNDER: Chicago Indian Artist Guild; Red Cliff Cultural
Institute; Wisconsin Greens; Upper Great Lakes Greens; Anishinabe
Niijii; Midwest Treaty Network.
Walt Bresette is a Chippewa treaty rights activist from northern
Wisconsin. He is also involved with Green politics and other
ecological issues. He has lectured on these issues around the
country for over a decade.
Treaty and Environmental Activist
In the past decade he has been an artist, writer, news director,
radio commentator, consultant and, throughout, a native rights
and environmental activist.
He currently is partner with his wife in a native arts and crafts
business as well as manager of a desktop publishing firm. He is
recognized as one of the leading spokespersons on native issues
today.
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FOR LECTURE SERIES OR DESKTOP PUBLISHING INFORMATION: Sunshine
Studios, P.O. Box 1350, Bayfield, WI 54814 y (715) 779-5071
FOR ARTS & CRAFTS INFO CALL: Buffalo Bay Trading Company (715)
779-3687 ask for Cass.
Lectures, Workshops, Inservice-Training
Lectures, panels, seminars or private consultations available;
also, Continuing Clock Hour accreditation for teacher in-
service.
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[photo not reproduced]
Activist Walt Bresette receiving honor staff at the
199l Protect the Earth Festival on the Lac Courte
Oreilles Reservation in northern Wisconsin.
Treaties and the Environment
In the past decade Bresette has been at the forefront of treaty
and environmental issues. He views native rights and ecological
health as inextricably linked.
In 1983, when the Chippewa won a landmark treaty rights court
case, he was a news reporter in northern Wisconsin. Prior to the
Chippewa treaty controversy, Bresette covered the emerging debate
over the storage of high-level nuclear waste.
Throughout the past decade he has helped organize many groups
including the Witness for Non-violence, the Midwest Treaty
Network, the Lake Superior and Wisconsin Greens, and Anishinabe
Niijii - a mining watchdog group.
He was named the Duluth News Tribune's "environmentalist to watch
in the 90's" in their end-of-decade review and predictions. A
week later he was charged with violating the federal migratory
bird act, and, although suffering damage to his reputation, was
acquitted of all charges. He says that the charges were
politically motivated because of his activism.
He has been a visiting scholar at both the University of
Wisconsin and at Northern Michigan University. He is currently
finishing a book (due out summer 1992) on the Chippewa treaty
rights struggles with urban green activist and co-author Rick
Whaley.
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When not travelling Bresette is a partner with his wife Cass Joy
in a native arts and crafts business. Their store, the Buffalo
Bay Trading Company, is located in Bayfield, Wisconsin near their
home on the Red Cliff Chippewa Reservation.
He also manages Sunshine Studios, a desktop publishing business
as well as providing training and workshops on native issues, art
and culture.
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-- Peter d'Errico phone: 413-545-2003 Legal Studies Department fax: 413-545-1640 University of Massachusetts/Amherst 01003 dErrico@titan.ucc.umass.edu