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DESCRIPTION:Celebrate the release of "How We Go Home: Voices from Indigenous North 
 America", the latest addition to the Voice of Witness book series, with a 
 roundtable conversation about Indigenous narratives, visibility, and 
 storytelling. \n\nWHEN: Friday, 11/20/2020 @ noon - 1:00 PM PT\n\nInfo & 
 RSVP: 
 https://sfpl.org/events/2020/11/20/panel-how-we-go-home-voices-indigenous-north-america\n\nOR\n\nYouTube 
 livestream here: 
 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dcRXAZm7Flw&feature=youtu.be\n\n"How We Go 
 Home", edited by oral historian Sara Sinclair, shares contemporary 
 first-person Indigenous stories in the long and ongoing fight to protect 
 Native land, rights, and life. In myriad ways, each narrator’s life has 
 been shaped by loss, injustice, resilience, and the struggle to share space 
 with settler nations. In this roundtable conversation, narrator Ashley 
 Hemmers will be joined by the book’s editor, Sara Sinclair, and News from 
 Native California editor, Terria Smith, to discuss representation and 
 visibility of Indigenous communities today. \n\nThis event is cosponsored 
 by Voice of Witness or VOW (https://voiceofwitness.org/), \na San 
 Francisco-based nonprofit that advances human rights by amplifying the 
 voices of people impacted by—and fighting against—injustice. The VOW 
 Book Series depicts human rights issues through the edited oral histories 
 of people—VOW narrators—who are most deeply impacted and at the heart 
 of solutions to address injustice. \n\nThe series explores issues of race-, 
 gender-, and class-based inequity through the lenses of the criminal 
 justice system, migration, and displacement. The VOW Education Program 
 connects over 20,000 educators, students, and advocates each year with 
 these stories and issues through oral history-based curricula, trainings, 
 and holistic educational support.\n\nSpeakers:\n\nAshley Hemmers is an 
 enrolled member of the Fort Mojave Indian Tribe, whose reservation spans 
 the states of California, Arizona, and Nevada. After leaving the 
 reservation for an undergraduate degree on the east coast, Ashley returned 
 and now works as a Tribal Administrator. She is a strategic specialist in 
 multi-state cross-jurisdictional Development and Management of Tribal 
 economies and holds over 10 years of experience in Tribal enterprising..  
 During her time within Tribal Government, she has worked to strengthen 
 Tribal/Federal and Tribal/State partnerships by developing strategic models 
 of performance for service areas within the Tribal organizational 
 structure. Ashley graduated with her B.A. from Yale University and a 
 Graduate Certificate in Non-Profit Management & Masters of Public 
 Administration from the University of Nevada Las Vegas.\n\nSara Sinclair is 
 an oral historian, writer, and educator of Cree-Ojibwe and settler descent. 
 Sara teaches in the Oral History Masters Program at Columbia University. 
 She has contributed to the Columbia Center for Oral History Research’s 
 Covid-19 Oral History, Narrative and Memory Archive, Obama Presidency Oral 
 History, and Robert Rauschenberg Oral History Project. She has conducted 
 oral histories for the Whitney Museum of American Art, New York City 
 Department of Environmental Protection, and the International Labor 
 Organization, among others. \n\nTerria Smith [bio 
 pending]\n______________________________________________________________\n 
 https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2020/11/16/18838491.php
SUMMARY:Roundtable on "How We Go Home: Voices from Indigenous North America"
LOCATION:Online via livestream & Zoom
URL:https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2020/11/16/18838491.php
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