To the UTC Campus Community:

This evening the Political Science Club kicks off Human Rights Week with a focus on Native American Rights. Beginning at 6:30 this evening we will be treated by a local Native American drum group.  This performance will be followed at 7:00 by a presentation by Native American advocate Suzan Shown Harjo entitled, "Native American Rights are Human Rights Too."  Ms. Harjo is President  of the Morning Star Institute, a national Indian rights organization.  Of Cheyenne and Hodulgee Muscogee background, Ms. Harjo is a poet, writer, lecturer, curator and policy advocate who has helped Native Peoples recover more than one million acres of land.  She has developed federal Indian law since 1975, including key national policies to protect Native American cultures and arts.  She is author of "Fighting Name Calling: Challenging 'Redskins' in Court," in Team Spirits: The Native American Mascots Controversy (University of Nebraska Press 2001).
Paul W. Posner, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor
Department of Political Science
University of Tennessee at Chattanooga
615 McCallie Avenue
Chattanooga, TN 37403-2598
(423)425-4243
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