[nativestudies-l] Rigoberta Menchu and Wilma Mankiller @ Quinnipiac U soon

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Subject: Two powerhouses @ Quinnipiac U soon
From:    "Ruth Garby Torres" <schaghticoke at sbcglobal.net>
Date:    Mon, September 8, 2008 11:06 pm
To:      "Yi-Chun Tricia Lin" <liny4 at southernct.edu>
         "Trudie Richmond" <trichmond at mptn.org>
         "J. Kehaulani at work Kauanui" <jkauanui at wesleyan.edu>
         "Alyssa Mt. Pleasant" <alyssa.mt.pleasant at yale.edu>
         "Theresa Delahanty" <tdelahanty at crec.org>
         "Monique Ferraro" <moniqueferraro at optonline.net>
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Date : Monday, October 27
Event Title: Lecture by Rigoberta Mench� Tum
Start Time: 7:00PM
Location:
Sponsoring Organization:
Description: Nobel Peace Prize Laureate Rigoberta Mench� Tum will lecture at
7 p.m. in the Recreation Center on the Mount Carmel Campus. Tum was named a
Nobel Laureate in 1992 for her work for social justice and ethnocultural
reconciliation based on respect for the rights of indigenous peoples. During
the 1980s, she took on a leadership role in the Committee of the Peasant
Union and was involved in a strike the CUC organized for better conditions
for farm workers on the Pacific coast. She joined the radical 31st of
January Popular Front, helping to educate the Indian peasant population in
resistance to massive military oppression. While in exile in Guatemala, Tum
helped to found the United Representation of the Guatemalan Opposition. Her
advocacy work for Indian rights has earned her several international awards.



Date : Tuesday, October 28
Event Title: Lecture by Wilma Mankiller
Start Time: 7:00PM
Location:
Sponsoring Organization:
Description: Wilma Mankiller of the Cherokee Nation will lecture at 7 p.m.
on Tuesday, Oct. 28, in Alumni Hall on the Mount Carmel Campus. In 1985,
Mankiller became the first female chief of the Cherokee Nation, a position
she held for 10 years.
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