Native American Ecological Education Symposium
NAEES Staff, 21.04.2005 08:35



The annual Native American Ecological Education Symposium offers students and community members invaluable information and experience on Native American culture and current issues facing Native American communities. The two-day event will feature lectures, field trips and a keynote address by Winona LaDuke, the Program Director of Honor the Earth and Founding Director of White Earth Land Recovery Project. LaDuke also ran with Ralph Nader on the 1996 and 2000 Green Party Presidential ticket. LaDuke will speak Sunday morning, April 24.






Native American Fourth Annual Ecological Education Symposium

April 23rd-24th
SOU Stevenson Union
Ashland, Oregon

Ashland, ORE - Southern Oregon University's Native American Student Union, Ecology Center of the Siskiyous (ECOS), Anthropology Club, OSPRIG, The Center for First Nations Studies, Klamath- Siskiyou Wildlands Center and Peace House present the second annual Native American Ecological Education Symposium on April 23rd and 24th in SOU Stevenson Union. The event is free.

The mission is to bridge Native American ecological practices, with educational development and contemporary actions for earth restoration and stewardship on behalf of future generations.

This event begins at 9 a.m. on Saturday morning with opening remarks by David West, Director of SOU's Native American Studies Program, and symposium organizers. Saturday events will address issues of the effect of Measure 37 on native lands, SOU lodge house and arboretum projects, basket weaving, and Klamath tribe perspective on environmental issues affecting the region. Winona LaDuke- a member of the Mississippi Band Anishinaabeg and Founding Director of White Earth Land Recovery Project will give the keynote address on Sunday at 10am. Field trips to archeological, restoration, and educational sites will depart at 12pm.

A tentative schedule can be found at: www.sou.edu/calendar. For more information, call OSPIRG at 541-552-8514.
(see attached schedule of events)


Saturday April 23rd
Stevenson Union Rogue River Room

9:00-9:30am Breakfast

9:30 Greetings/Welcome - David West and Masters of Ceremony Phil Albers

9:45-10:15 Measure 37 - Ashland City Council Member Cate Hartzell

10:20-10:45 Longhouse in SOU - SOU Students Kevin Knapp and Hesid Brandovysrael

11:00-11:30 Arboretum Project - Lucetta Nelson

12-1pm Lunch

1:00-1:45 Basket Weaving - Mary Carpland

Break

2:00-3pm Environmental Issues Concerning Tribes - Gerald Skelton Klamath Tribe

6pm - Potluck at Elmos (Elmos located Inside the Stevenson Union)

Sunday April 24th
Stevenson Union Rogue River Room/Field Trips

10:00-11:00 AM - Winona LaDuke

Noon - Field Trips

Field Trip Options: Lomakatsi field site visit, Mark Teveskov Anthropological site visit, or North Mountain Park Ethnobotanical walk with Don Todt.
For Immediate Release
Contact: Gina Lutz
April 19, 2005
(541) 552-8514
naees2005 (at) hotmail.com