Red Power: Thirty Years of American Indian Activism in the San Francisco Bay Area
Friday, November 19, 1999
Seven Hills Conference Center
San Francisco State University
As 1999 marks the centennial anniversary of San Francisco State
University, the Department of American Indian Studies will celebrate the
thirtieth anniversary of its founding by hosting a symposium on American
Indian Activism in the San Francisco Bay Area. The work of American
Indian student activists in founding the department marks a watershed in
the social and political struggles of American Indians in the Bay Area.
Prominent among this very first class of the newly created department
was some of the leadership that along with other American Indian
activists reclaimed Alcatraz in the name of Indians of All Tribes. As
one of the nation's leading public urban universities, SFSU was uniquely
suited to fulfill the aspirations of American Indians who comprised on
of the largest urban American Indian communities in the United States.
Invited speakers LaNada Boyer, Millie Ketchesawno, Mickey Gimmel,
Marilyn St. Germaine, Shirley Guevara, Troy Johnson, Susan Lobo, Steve
Talbot and Luis Kemnitzer will address issues such as Student Leaders
and the Creation of American Indian Studies, The Occupation of Alcatraz
Island, and Relocation and the Emergence of an Urban Indian Community in
the Bay Area.
This event is free and open to the public.
For more information, see website below.
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