BEGIN:VCALENDAR METHOD:PUBLISH VERSION:2.0 CALSCALE:GREGORIAN PRODID:-//NONSGML WPForms//NONSGML Sugar Calendar Feeds v3.9.0//EN X-WR-CALNAME:Water Rights: Local Justice\, Advocacy\, Art and Native Per spective X-WR-CALDESC:Native American Community Development Institute X-WR-TIMEZONE:America/Chicago BEGIN:VTIMEZONE TZID:America/Chicago BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:-0500 TZOFFSETTO:-0600 DTSTART:20231105T070000 TZNAME:CST END:STANDARD END:VTIMEZONE BEGIN:VTIMEZONE TZID:America/Chicago BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:-0500 TZOFFSETTO:-0600 DTSTART:20231105T070000 TZNAME:CST END:STANDARD END:VTIMEZONE BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:Water Rights: Local Justice\, Advocacy\, Art and Native Perspect ive DESCRIPTION:Join AMRA and NACDI as we welcome a panel discussion on wate r rights\, activism and advocacy through Native perspectives. Hear what local Native organizers and organizations are doing to forge the movemen t on water rights and rethink our relationship to water. There will also be opportunities for questions and ways to get involved locally and nat ionally.\n\nWater Rights: Local Justice\, Advocacy\, Art and Native Pers pective\nThursday\, December 7th\, 5:30-7pm / Free &\; open to the pu blic  \n\nThis event is part of programming for Aabijijiwan / Ukeyat yanalleh\, a collaborative exhibition reflecting on the Misi-ziibi (Big River\, Ojibwe) by artists Karen Goulet (White Earth Ojibwe) and Moniqu e Verdin (Houma)\, currently on view through January 13\, 2024.\n\nJoin us for an evening of education\, engagement and art moderated by water p rotector Tara Widner\, with panelists Shelley Buck\, Gabby Menomin\, and Maggie Lorenz. There will be light snacks at 5:30 pm with the discussio n starting at 6 pm.\n\nAbout the Presenters:\n\nShelley Buck became Pre sident of Owámniyomni Okhódayapi in January 2023. Buck is an enrolle d member of the Prairie Island Indian Community and served 12 years on t he Prairie Island Tribal Council\, including six years as president. Pri or to being elected to Tribal Council\, Buck held other positions servin g the Tribe\, including enrollment clerk and government relations specia list.\n\nBuck has a Bachelor of Science in business accounting from Indi ana University and a Masters of Arts in sports management from Concordia University. She recently finished a second Masters of Jurisprudence in Tribal Indian law from the University of Tulsa. Buck currently serves on the boards of the Minnesota Wild Foundations\, Great River Passage Cons ervancy\, and Wakan Tipi Awanyankapi in St. Paul. She also held the posi tion of Alternate Regional VP for the National Congress of American Indi ans.\nMaggie Lorenz (Pabaksawiŋ) is Dakota and Anishinaabe. She is an enrolled member of the Turtle Mountain Band of Ojibwe and descends from Spirit Lake Dakota Nation. She has spent her career in the fields of edu cation\, cultural resiliency and healing\, and environmental justice. Ma ggie is the Executive Director of Wakan Tipi Awanyankapi &\; the Wa kan Tipi Center Director.\nGabby Menomin is an enrolled member of the F orest County Potawatomi Community (bullhead clan) of northern Wisconsin. With a master’s degree in Tribal Natural Resource Management\, Gabby is focused on plant relatives and how climate change is impacting them. She is passionate about the environment and looking at how to center Ind igenous voices\, values\, and knowledge in the stewardship of the land.\ n\nTara Widner is an Anishinaabekwe Water Protector and ricer\, Pembina Band Ojibwe (White Earth). A traveler from the Midwest\, currently resi ding a mile from the banks of the Misi-ziibi in the Dakota homelands on what is now called Minneapolis. Widner is a current cohort member of All My Relations Arts’ Native Authors Program. URL;VALUE=URI:https://nacdi.org/events/water-rights-local-justice-advoca cy-art-and-native-perspective/ UID:urn:uuid:321ae296-38a7-4ac3-a341-1b2d3a2ccdd5 STATUS:CONFIRMED ORGANIZER: DTSTAMP:20260430T132915Z DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20231207T173000 DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20231207T190000 END:VEVENT END:VCALENDAR