A.S.U. Hosts 7th Annual Conference of the American Indian Studies Consortium

Arizona State University will host the seventh annual Conference of the American Indian Studies Consortium Feb. 15-16 on the ASU Tempe campus with the theme “Indigenous Nations and the Academy: The Dynamics of Indigenous Scholarship and Thought in Defending and Protecting Our Lands, Languages, Tribal Nations and Cultures.” Keynote speakers will be scholar/activists Winona LaDuke and Andrea Smith. Other notable speakers will be Don Fixico, Elizabeth Cook-Lynn and Vivian Juan-Sanders. The conference will open with blessings both days at 8:55 a.m. Peterson Zah, former president of the Navajo Nation and now special assistant to ASU President Michael Crow, will offer the blessing on Feb. 15, and Sergio Maldonado, doctoral candidate at ASU, on Feb. 16. For more information about the conference, which is open to the public, contact the American Indian Studies program at (480) 965-3634 or send an e-mail to AIS@asu.edu.