"Human Rights Issues and the American Indian Community" will be held at 7 p.m. Monday, Oct. 15, at the University of Minnesota-Duluth, Kirby Rafters. It is a panel discussion presented by the UMD Center for Genocide, Holocaust, and Human Rights Studies.
The speakers are Jim Northrup, local writer and activist; Robert Powless, professor emeritus, American Indian Studies, UMD; and Linda Grover, chair, American Indian Studies, UMD.
The speakers will discuss important human rights issues that affected American Indians in Minnesota, including forced boarding school attendance and forced sterilization.
The event is free and open to the public.
The event is the first in a series of lectures entitled "American Indians in Minnesota: Personal Histories" that is part of the Sesquicentennial Commemoration of the State of Minnesota.
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See the Web site for information, www.d.umn.edu/unirel/homepage/07/amindmn.html .
