Indigenous Peoples: An International Symposium sponsored by the University
of Nebraska-Lincoln, the University of Texas-Austin, and the University of
Kansas, will be held in Lincoln, Nebraska on April 8-9, 1997. Walter
Echo-Hawk, Native American Rights Fund senior staff attorney, is featured
in a general session in conjunction with the E.N. Thompson Forum on World
Issues. Megan Biesele, Anthropologist and Senior Lecturer in the Department
of Art and Art History at the University of Texas-Austin is also featured
and will give a general session titled "Cultural and Resource Rights Issues
of the San of Southern Africa since 1970."
The symposium includes three panel discussions titled "Human Rights,
Environment, Development, and Self Determination Among Indigenous and
African Peoples," "Strategies for Empowerment: Indigenous Rights and
Resources in Latin America," and "Strategies of Political Resistance Among
Native Americans." In addition to these panel discussions which include
over 17 individual paper presentations, 18 concurrent session papers will
also be presented which focus on wide range of topics including law,
education, justice, natural resource strategies and other environmental
issues, economic development, religion, cultural survival, social status
and mobility, grassroots and community organizing, and other issues related
to indigenous peoples and human rights.
Presenters representing more than thirteen institutions and eleven states
will participate in this two-day conference. Please direct inquiries to:
Academic Conferences and Professional Programs, Division of Continuing
Studies, University of Nebraska-Lincoln, Lincoln, NE, 68583-9600, (402)
472-2844, Fax: (402) 472-9688, E-mail: acpp@unl.edu, WWW URL is
http://www.unl.edu/conted/acpp/