[nativestudies-l] upcoming lectures at UMass Boston: indigenous peoples, human rights, activism

[Amy E. Den Ouden]

Dear All: Please forward these announcements to interested students and colleagues. Many thanks, Amy
 
Amy E. Den Ouden, PhD
Associate Professor
Department of Anthropology
University of Massachusetts Boston
100 Morrissey Blvd.
Boston, MA 02125
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MYTHOLOGIZING THE COLONIAL "ENCOUNTER":
THE IMPACT ON INDIGENOUS PEOPLE
Guest lecture by Linda Coombs (Aquinnah Wampanoag),Program Director, Aquinnah Cultural Center;
and screening of the award winning new documentary 
Columbus Day Legacy by Navajo filmmaker Bennie Klain
 
Wed., Oct. 12, 4-6 pm, UMass Boston, 
McCormack Building, 1st floor, Room 409
Free and open to the public.
 
A preview of the film is available at: http://www.nativetelecom.org/columbus_day_legacy.
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Lecture by acclaimed Tohono O'odham human rights activist Mike Wilson, "Human Rights, Indigenous Activism, and the Right to Water for Migrating Peoples at the US/Mexico Border"
Wed., Nov. 9, 2011, 4-6 pm, UMass Boston, Healey Library, 11th floor. 
 
For over nine years, Mike Wilson has provided water for people migrating from Mexico through what is called the "death corridor" on the Tohono O'odham reservation in Arizona. Mike's human rights work has been featured in two important documentary films on immigration policy and responses to it in the US: "Crossing Arizona" and "The 800 Mile Wall."  As a part of this event, a screening of "Crossing Arizona" will be held before Mike's lecture, from 2-4 pm on Wed., 11/9 in Healey Library, 11th floor. Mike's topic intersects with multiple human rights/indigenous rights issues: e.g., the impact of policies and practices that dehumanize migrating peoples; the multiple social and political implications of US immigration policy; the sovereign rights of Native nations on the US/Mexico border; and broader international questions concerning coexistence among culturally diverse and politically autonomous peoples in the 21st century. 
 
Free and open to the public.
 
For further info. on these events, contact Amy Den Ouden, Dept. of Anthropology (amy.denouden at umb.edu <mailto:amy.denouden at umb.edu> ).