The MultiCultural Center and Walter H. Capps Center for the Study of Ethics, Religion, and Public Life present:
INDIGENOUS RELIGIOUS TRADITIONS AND LAW IN THE CURRENT POLITICAL MOMENT TUE, OCT 28, 4:00 PMMCC THEATER AND LOUNGE
REGISTER AT SHORELINE: https://cglink.me/2dD/r2268188
How are Indigenous communities in the U.S. facing challenges to their ways of life in the current political moment? Focusing on questions concerning repatriation, land access, education, and diverse forms of sovereignty, panelists will explore the intersection of Indigenous religious traditions and law.
Panelists include tribal authorities, legal experts, and scholars. The discussion will begin with campus-level and regional considerations, with specific reference to Chumash contexts. Then it will expand outward to borderland settings, Oklahoma, the
Great Lakes, and the Pacific.
Panelists:
• Vicente Diaz, Professor of American Indian and Indigenous Studies, UCLA
• Walter Echo-Hawk, Former President of the Pawnee Nation
• Cristina Gonzales, Registrar, Santa Rosa Rancheria
• Eric Hemenway, Anishnaabe Historian, Michigan Historical Commission
• Amrah Salomón, Assistant Professor of English, UCSB
• Moderated by Greg Johnson, Director of the Walter H. Capps Center for the Study of Ethics, Religion, and Public Life
Reception in MCC Lounge following panel discussion.
Presented with support from the Henry Luce Foundation
Image caption: Wit-sa-nap, a lake sacred to the Paiute people of the Eastern Sierra Nevada. Image credit: Greg Johnson