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Join us for a discussion with writer Paul Chaat Smith
Monday November 23, 2009
12:00 - 1:00PM
Nicholson Hall 135 (East Bank)
Paul Chaat Smith (Comanche) is an essayist on American Indian politics, fine arts and culture and a curator at the National Museum of the American Indian at the Smithsonian Institution. He is the author of Like a Hurricane: The Indian Movement from Alcatraz to Wounded Knee (with Robert Warrior; The New Press, 1996) and Everything You Know About Indians Is Wrong (University of Minnesota Press, 2009).
We will have cookies and drinks. Feel free to bring a bag lunch.
November 9th, 2009
Celebrating 40 Years
African American Studies
& American Indian Studies
at the University of Minnesota
In 1969 the University of Minnesota established the African American and American Indian Studies Departments, the second and first such departments respectively to be founded in the United States. To celebrate the anniversary of this historic event, the University Libraries, with the African American & African Studies Department and the American Indian Studies Department, have put together a display of archival materials commemorating 40 years of history.
Exhibit curated by
Malaika Grant and Jody Gray
Presented by
Office for Equity and Diversity
Circle of Indigenous Nations
Department of American Indian Studies
Department of African & African American Studies
Friends of the Libraries
Exhibit
October 7, 2009 - December 5, 2009
Andersen Atrium Gallery
Elmer L. Andersen Library, 2nd & 3rd floors
University of Minnesota
222 21st Avenue South, Minneapolis
hours and parking info
Free and open to the public
Opening Reception
Tuesday, October 27, 2009
4:00-6:00 p.m.
120 Andersen Library
4:30 p.m. program featuring remarks by:
Nancy "Rusty" Barceló
Vice President & Vice Provost, Office for Equity & Diversity
Carolyn (Carrie) Schommer
Retired Dakota Instructor, Department of American Indian Studies
John S. Wright
Morse-Amoco Distinguished Teaching Professor, Departments of African American & African Studies and English
October 27th, 2009
