Center for Native American Studies Native American Studies

INDIGENOUS EARTH ISSUES SUMMIT

Focusing on GREAT LAKES MINING ACTIVISM

Friday, February 21 from 10 a.m. - 4 p.m.

Whitman Hall - Northern Michigan University

Marquette, Michigan

Confirmed presenters:

Winona LaDuke

Mike Wiggins (Chair, Bad River Band of Lake Superior Chippewa)

Paul DeMain (CEO, IndianCountryTV.com)

Jessica Koski (Keweenaw Bay Indian Community Mining Techinical Assistant)

Join us for a day of planning region-wide action on the mining threat

facing Michigan's Upper Peninsula, northern Wisconsin, and northern

Minnesota. This is the land of the Lake Superior Anishinaabe. How can we

best organize and take action regionally to protect the land and

ourselves?

"All life on the Earth is sacred and that sacredness of life is the key to

human survival." - John Mohawk from "Thinking in Indian"

Kids' activities will be available, organized by student volunteers from

NMU's Education Department.

Registration forms for this FREE summit can be found at

www.nmu.edu/nativeamericans.

For more information, call 906-227-1397.

This gathering is presented by the NMU Center for Native American Studies

and made possible thanks to the Keweenaw Bay Indian Community