September 12, 2000

Contact: Mary Jane Dunlap, University Relations, (785) 864-8853.

Media Advisory: American Indian leaders to speak Sept. 14-16

WHAT: A conference of American Indian leaders convenes Sept. 14 to 16 at two universities in Lawrence to discuss leadership and examine the changing nature of American Indian political activism today.

WHO:

  • Ada E. Deer, Menominee tribal leader and the first female assistant secretary for Indian affairs in the U.S. Interior Department
  • Adam Fortunate Eagle, Chippewa, Haskell Indian Nations University alumnus and author of "Alcatraz! Alcatraz! The Indian Occupation of 1969-1971"
  • LaDonna Harris, Comanche, founder of Americans for Indian Opportunity and of Oklahomans for Indian Opportunity
  • Dennis Banks and Clyde Bellecourt, both of the Anishinabe Nation, co-founders of the American Indian Movement
  • Ramona Bennett, former Puyallup tribal chair and founder of the Survival of American Indians Association
  • Oren Lyons, Iroquois, co-editor with John Mohawk of "Exiled in the Land of the Free," a study of American Indians and democracy

    WHERE: University of Kansas (Thursday, Friday and Saturday) and Haskell Indian Nations University (Friday evening). A full program is available online at http://www.kuce.org/app/ail/

    Highlights include:

    FRIDAY, SEPT. 15

  • 8:45 a.m. "Red Power and National Leadership" Kansas Room, Kansas Union. Ada E. Deer, Adam Fortunate Eagle and LaDonna Harris.
  • 1:30 p.m. "The American Indian Movement," Kansas Room, Kansas Union. Dennis Banks and Clyde Bellecourt.
  • 7:30 p.m. Keynote address in Stidham Hall, Haskell Indian Nations University. Ada E. Deer.

    SATURDAY, SEPT. 16

  • 9 a.m. "Tribal Leadership: Past, Present and Future," Jayhawk Room, Kansas Union. Ramona Bennett and Oren Lyons.

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