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Join us for Indigenous Peoples' Day 2020
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From Vice Chancellor for Rural, Community and Native Education Evon Peter
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Please join us for Indigenous Peoples' Day, Monday, Oct. 12, at 11 a.m. The theme of this year's event is “Resiliency Through Hope and Love.” The celebration can be viewed online at media.uaf.edu. We'll start the morning with a traditional blessing and drum performance followed by a keynote address from Alaska Native rights attorney Heather Kendall-Miller. Later, we'll hear from student, staff and faculty speakers.
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We will also show "After the Ice," a new film series that captures the stories of Indigenous communities immensely challenged by sea ice loss in Alaska’s Bering Sea. The release of the film is just a few weeks after the Arctic sea ice reached its annual minimum, making 2020 the second-lowest year on record. The three-part series, funded by the Study of Environmental Arctic Change, is a multidisciplinary effort directed by Brendan Kelly of UAF's International Arctic Research Center. Matthew Druckenmiller, from the National Snow and Ice Data Center, and Mellisa Johnson, with the Bering Sea Elders Group, will join the call to answer questions.
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In addition, there are two workshops offered the following day as part of this year's celebration. The land acknowledgment workshop is already full, but Sheena Tanner will collect your information for any future events. Maggie King is organizing the content creation panel, and if for some reason you are unable to make it at that time, she will send a recording of the workshop to anyone who registers in advance.
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Please share this information with anyone you think would be interested. We hope you will join us.
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Kendall-Miller is Dena'ina Athabascan and a tribal member of the Curyung Tribe of Dillingham. She received her bachelor’s degree from UAF in 1988 and her law degree from Harvard University in 1991. She became staff attorney with the Native American Rights Fund in 1993. Her litigation experience includes arguments before the U.S. Supreme Court, the District of Columbia Court of Appeals and the 9th Circuit Court of Appeals en banc.
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Land acknowledgment workshop is now full
A workshop on Tuesday, Oct. 13, from 10 a.m.-noon will focus on the communal and personal understanding of land acknowledgment.
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Indigenous Peoples' Day content creation panel Oct. 13
Digital content creators Alice Qannik Glenn, Tak Marrero and Jacqui Lambert will discuss cultural identities and stories on the new and emerging digital platforms on Tuesday, Oct. 13, at 6 p.m.
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