Ortiz/RED INK Speaker Series: 'The Tipi and the Story of Religious Freedom and Sovereignty'
The Simon Ortiz RED INK Indigenous Speaker Series sponsored by the Labriola Center presents "The Tipi and the Story of Religious Freedom and Sovereignty."
Storytellers Ksaws Brooks (Confederated Tribes of the Colville Reservation) and Glen Juste (Gila River Tohono O'odham) discuss the development of the Native American Church and the Tipi's evolvement alongside.
The Simon Ortiz RED INK Indigenous Speaker Series, sponsored by the Labriola Center at Arizona State University, addresses topics and issues across disciplines in the arts, humanities, sciences and politics. Underscoring indigenous American experiences and perspectives, this series seeks to create and celebrate knowledge that evolves from an inclusive Indigenous worldview and that is applicable to all walks of life.
The Simon Ortiz RED INK Indigenous Speaker Series seeks to speak, act, offer and share in order to assume responsibility for land, culture, community that is our world.
ASU sponsors: American Indian Studies Program, ASU Library, Department of English, Labriola National American Indian Data Center, Office of American Indian Initiatives, Red Ink Initiative
Community [artner: Heard Museum
As part of this same series, storytellers Sarita and Mac Nosie (White Mountain Apache) and Glen Juste (Gila River Tohono O'odham) will demonstrate and discuss cradle boards from 9:40 to 11 a.m. and noon to 2 p.m. March 22 on the SDFC Instramural Fields, also on the ASU Tempe campus.
Original artwork at right by Tyson Powless (Navajo).