Panel of Native Americans on Columbus

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1 total messages Started by ANAND SANKAR PANDIAN Fri, 16 Oct 1992 00:41

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Author: ANAND SANKAR PANDIAN
Date: Fri, 16 Oct 1992 00:41

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SPEAC and SCONAS invite you to a panel discussion on Tuesday, October 20,J
at 7:30 PM iat Amherst College. The panel is titled "Columbus' Legacy: J
Contemporary Native American Perspectives," and features Nativee
American speakers from around Massachusetts. Nane Pashemet, of the
Wampanoag nation, will begin the presentations by discussing the colonialJ
record, and the struggles of natives in New England over the last 400 years.J
Next, Cheryl Savageau, a poet and storyteller of Abenaki and French-CanadianJ
descent, will talk about the invisibility and fragmented identity that NativeJ
American peoples feel in contemporary America. Slow Turtle, the supremeJ
sachem (medicine-man) of the Wampanoag, will conclude by discussing prospectsJ
for a more equitable and ecologically sustainably future, and the properJ
roles of spirituality and industrial technology in society.

The panel will take place in Stirn Auditorium of the Mead Art Museum of 
Amherst College, which is in the middle of Massachusetts, easily accessible
off of the 91 Freeway. For more information, please contact Anand Pandian
(aspandian@amherst.edu, 413-542-3059). Hope to see you there!

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