Native American Issues Day at USM
March 13, 2003
USM's Criminology Students Association is hosting a daylong
event on Friday, March 21, examining the controversial trial
of Native American activist Leonard Peltier, and other issues
faced by Native Americans. The event will take place in the
Woodbury Campus Center on USM's Portland campus.
The day begins with a book fair starting at 10:30 a.m. in
the Woodbury Campus Center Amphitheater featuring Leonard
Peltier's biography, "Prison Writings: My Life as a Sun Dance,"
and "The Trial of Leonard Peltier" by USM Professor of Criminology
James Messerschmidt. Native American films will be shown from
10:30 a.m.-6 p.m. in the Amphitheater as well.
A brown bag panel discussion in Rooms A&B of the Campus Center
begins at noon and will feature Maine Representative Donna
Loring (Penobscot Nation), and USM Professors David Wagner,
Dahlia Bradshaw and George Caffentzis.
Barry A. Bachrach, a University of Maine Law School graduate
and the attorney for Leonard Peltier, will speak at 4 p.m.
in the Amphitheater. Peltier, who was convicted for a 1975
murder during a shoot-out on the Pine Ridge Indian Reservation
in South Dakota after a controversial trial. He remains in
prison.
A concert to benefit the Leonard Peltier Defense Fund featuring
Spirit of the Corn Powwow Drum, Leah Wolfsong and Reinaldo
Cortez starts at 7 p.m.
Admission to the benefit concert is $5 public, $4 for USM
students. All other events are free. For more information
contact Candace Gray
at 642-5602.
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