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Repost: Storytelling & Dialogue on Indigenous Erasure

Learn from different tribal perspectives about experiences

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Dr. Yolanda Valencia will be participating in this event. Hope many of us can join. 
Wednesday, April 17, 2024 · 2:30 - 4:30 PM

Please join us for a storytelling session and dialogue on experiences of Indigenous erasure from individuals of varying Tribal identities.  

Storytelling Panelists:

Ashley MinnerJones(Artist, Folklorist

Enrolled Citizen of the Lumbee Tribe of North Carolina)

Rico Newman (Tribal elder, Choptico Band of Indians)

Autumn Powell (UMBC graduate student 

Diné citizen or Citizen of the Navajo Nation)

Drew Shuptar(Tribalcitizen,PocomokeIndianNation)

Joby Taylor (The Shriver Center at UMBC,

enrolled citizen of Cherokee Nation of Oklahoma)

Yolanda Valencia (Asst Professor GES/UMBC,

Indigenous descendant from the Purépecha lands currently known as Michoacán, Mexico) 


Thanks to the following UMBC co-hosts:

Dept.ofGeography&Environmental Systems (GES)

The  ShriverCenter

Center for Social Science Scholarship (CS3)

DresherCenter for the Humanities

Inclusion Council


Posted: April 10, 2024, 2:52 PM