[nativestudies-l] Wilma Mankiller @ Quinnipiac

[jkauanui at wesleyan.edu]

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Activist Wilma Mankiller, the first woman principal chief of the Cherokee
Nation, will lecture about her life at 7 p.m. Tuesday, Oct. 28, in Alumni
Hall.

The lecture is part of a daylong conference, "The Declaration of Human
Rights 60 Years Later: A Look at Indigenous and Gender Issues." The free
conference is open to the public.

Mankiller served as principal chief of one of the nation's largest tribes
from 1985 to 1995 and received the Presidential Medal of Freedom from
President Clinton. She has authored two books: "Every Day is a Good Day:
Reflections of Contemporary Indigenous People" published by Fulcrum
Publishing in 2004 and "Mankiller: A Chief and Her People" published by
St. Martin's Press in 1993.

Adopted by the U.N. General Assembly Dec. 10, 1948, the Declaration of
Human Rights represents the first comprehensive agreement among nations as
to the specific rights and freedoms of all human beings. Among others,
these include the right to not be subjected to torture, to equality before
the law, to a fair trial, to freedom of movement, to asylum and to freedom
of conscience, religion and opinion. The rights outlined also include
economic, social and cultural rights such as the right to food, clothing,
housing, medical care, social security, work, equal pay for equal work,
form trade unions and education.

Below is the conference schedule:

9:30 a.m. The Declaration of Human Rights
Anat Biletzki, Albert Schweitzer Institute visiting professor of
philosophy from the University of Tel Aviv, will discuss international
human rights and Sean Duffy, chair of Quinnipiac's political science
department, will discuss human rights in the United States.

11 a.m. Gender Issues and Violence Against Women
Panel discussion with Sandy Korrejian, executive director of Domestic
Violence Services of Greater New Haven; Anna Sandoval, assistant professor
of sociology at Simmons College in Boston and a native of Guatemala; and
Lori Sudderth, chair of Quinnipiac's sociology department.

12:30 p.m. The Murdered Women of Juarez
Lourdes Portillo will show scenes and discuss her documentary, "Senorita
Extraviada," about murdered young women along the U.S.-Mexican border. A
mother of one of the murdered girls will speak.

2 p.m. Indigenous Human Rights
Panel discussion with Ronald Beckett, chairman of cardiopulmonary sciences
and diagnostic imaging, who will discuss his experience Papua New Guinea
and the clash between the modern idealism and indigenous rights and
beliefs; Tonya Frichner, North American representative of the U.N.
Secretariat of the Permanent Forum on Indigenous Issues; and Ellen L.
Lutz, executive director of Cultural Survival.

Human rights activist and 1992 Nobel Peace Prize recipient Rigoberta
Menchú Tum will kick off the conference with her lecture "The Life and
Times of Rigoberta Menchú Tum" Monday, Oct. 27, at 7 p.m. in the
Recreation Center at Quinnipiac. The free lecture is open to the public.

The conference is sponsored by Quinnipiac's Albert Schweitzer Institute.