On Friday, November 15th Winona La Duke will be speaking at Vorhees 105,
at 7:00 pm on the College Ave Campus, at Rutgers University. She is
delivering the keynote talk for the Center for the Critical Analysis of
Contemporary Culture Graduate conference:
Ecologies: Rethinking Nature/Culture
The title of her talk is:
"The Seventh Generation Fund Amendment, Sustainability, Native People and
Environmental Justice."
LaDuke is probably most well known as Ralph Nader's VP running mate
(except in NY, NJ, and CT) in the recent presidential election. She is a
member of the Mississippi Band of Chippewa of the White Earth Reservation
(in Minnesota) and chairs the White Earth Land Recovery Project, a progam
that supports sustainable economic development, reservation based land
acquisition, and cultural preservation. She is also the program director
for the Seventh Generation Fund's environmental Program-- a national
Native American Grantmaking and advocacy organization, a board member for
Greenpeace, has written extensively in the academic and activist press and
is a co chair of the Indigenous Women's Network.
Please come and hear what she has to say!
If you would like to attend the Conference-- it will begin at 10:00 am on
Friday at the Graduate Student lounge on the Rutgers College Ave Campus in
New Brunswick.
For more information contact Colleen O'Neill-- (908) 932-6748 or Vanessa
at (908) 932- 8426 or email Colleen at the address below.
Colleen O'Neill
History Department
Rutgers University
New Brunswick, NJ 08903
coneill@fas-history.rutgers.edu
http://history.rutgers.edu/~coneill/home.html