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Everyone. My name is grant two bulls. Once again happy to represent georgetowns native American Law Student Association and as copresident. Big thank you to our speakers today for coming out. Personally, im a enrolled member of the oglala sioux tribe from south dakota, but im originally from minnesota. Minneapolis, minnesota, the birthplace of the American Indian movement. And yeah, its my honor today to. Welcome you all. First of all, thank you for filling out georgetowns various requirements and policies and everything, but most importantly to our three speakers today we have sharon wyatt leonard, author of the book i will, which covers the early history of the American Indian movement and Dorothy Ninham former tribal judge for the United Nation and also features prominently in the book and last but not least, kevin sharp former Federal District court judge and Leonard Peltier is attorney. So without any further ado, thank you once again for coming out. Ill pass it on to our panelist
Chief. With a masters degree in journalism from northwestern universitys middle school of journalism and an mba from northwestern and Kellogg School of management, serve is also an independent journalist. Having written extensively for the chicago tribune. Chicago history writers digest, chicago athlete and mens fitness. Hes the author of two books, sams boys the history of chicagos leon beach and legendary lifeguard sam leon and most recently, war football, world war one and the birth of the nfls, which was selected by the professional Football Researchers Association as winner of the 2019 nelson ross award for Outstanding Achievement in pro football historical research. Will you please join me in welcoming chris serb to the stage. Thank you, laura, for that introduction, and thank you to the National World War One Museum and memorial for having me here tonight. And thanks to all of you for showing up to hear me and listen to what i have to say. Both those of you who are here in perso
Hello and welcome. My name is dr. Elizabeth rule. Im a citizen of the chickasaw nation and assistant professor at american university. And im so excited to sit down today to talk to Matika Wilbur about her new publication, project 562. Shes an acclaimed photographer, a fierce advocate for Indian Country, and also newly published author. So welcome, atika. Oh, thank you so much, elizabeth, its nice to be here. My name is Matika Wilbur. Im from the spin amish and tyler tribe. And i am the creator, the creator of project five, six, two, changing the way we see native america is as well as the cohost of the all my relations podcast. So thanks for having me. Absolute lutely absolutely. So lets just dive right into it. It was such a pleasure to your book and ive actually following your work several years now and so its, so exciting to have something out in the press that people get their hands on and have opportunity to look at your incredible as well as interviews that accompany each of the
To start with our discussion of native americans. This is one of two different discussions. Were having i want to make clear that were not talking about the indian wars in this kind of lecture thats going to be in a couple weeks and were gonna use that as as a way to link. Kind of wars throughout the 19th century all the way up to it including the spanishamerican war so our focus is were kind of around that. Were thinking more kind of legal policy and issues and and such so the goal is to think in that broad 19th century way so our start point is a couple key things we need to kind of deal with the second half of our semester one of the Big Questions were picking up on is what does it mean to be an american . All right who can claim to be an american . Thats one of the Big Questions thats going to kind of . Take us through the end of our semester into as we deal with the 19th century. So in upcoming weeks were going to talk about, you know, immigrants. Were going to talk about kind of