Seminar with Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz

The Institute for the Humanities will host a seminar with Native American activist Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz, December 11, from 3-5pm (Harbour Centre room 1315). The seminar will draw upon Roxanne's extensive experience in struggles for indigenous rights and freedoms, and will discuss social movement building, organizational strategies, and land resistance.

Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz is a veteran Native, socialist. and feminist activist, having been involved in revolutionary movements since the 1960's. In the wake of the Wounded Knee Siege she became active in the American Indian Movement and the International Indian Treaty Council. She also helped to develop the Department of Ethnic Studies as well as the Department of Women's Studies at California State University. Roxanne has authored a number of books including Outlaw Woman: Memoir of the War Years, The Great Sioux Nation: An Oral History of the Sioux Nation and its Struggle for Sovereignty, Indians of the Americas: Human Rights and Self-Determination, and Blood on the Border: A Memoir of the Contra War.