[nativestudies-l] Nov. 11: American Indian Recognition Lecture and Luncheon

[Alyssa Mt. Pleasant]

Who Gets to Decide? American Indian Recognition Struggles

November 11, 2009

Kathleen A. Brown-Pérez, MBA, JD
Assistant Professor, UMass-Amherst and Chair, 
Five College Native American Studies Certificate Program

9:20-10:15am Classroom Presentation (HGS 217A)

11-1pm Luncheon at the Yale Law School (Room 121)
A Conversation Between Professor Brown-Pérez and 
Professor Ned Blackhawk (Yale History Department)

In August 2009, the United States? Office of 
Federal Acknowledgment denied the recognition 
case of the Brothertown Indian Nation of 
Wisconsin, limiting this historic tribal 
community?s efforts to regain legally recognized 
status as a federally recognized American Indian 
nation. Please join us to learn more about this 
struggle and about the politics of federal Indian 
recognition from Professor Kathleen Brown-Pérez, 
a Brothertown community leader who has helped 
organize their recognition efforts.

(Sponsored by the Native American Cultural Center 
and The Forum on Religion and Ecology, Yale 
School of Forestry and Environmental Studies)