NCSAF LUNCHEON

November 13, 2008

A Perspective on Native Americans and Natural Resources

Speaker: Dr. José Barreiro
Assistant Director for Research
National Museum of the American Indian

Location: Secretary’s Dining Room, Whitten Building, 1400 Independence Avenue, SW. The entrance may be reached from Jefferson Court, about ½ block west of the Smithsonian Metro Station mall exit

Cost: $17/person, includes lunch, beverage & dessert

NOTE: Security check and ID is required to enter this building.

Luncheon Topic

Please join us in celebrating Native American Heritage Month by welcoming and listening to Jose Barreiro of the National Museum of the American Indian, as he speaks about the unique relationship of Native American cultures with natural resources and the landscape.  Dr. Barreiro will discuss the important role Native American religion plays in the treatment and use of natural resources.  He will also speak to the role the Museum of the American Indian in fostering understanding amongst the broader public about Native American values and traditions.

Speaker Information:

José Barreiro serves as National Museum of the American Indian’s assistant director for research. A scholar of American Indian policy and the contemporary Native experience, Barreiro is a pioneering figure in Native American journ alism and publishing. He helped establish the American Indian Program at Cornell University, serving as associate director and editor-in-chief of Akwe:kon Press and the journal Native Americas throughout the 1980s and ’90s. In 2000 he joined the staff of Indian Country Today as senior editor. He continues to serve as a member of the editorial board of Kacike: The Journal of Caribbean Amerindian History and Anthropology.

Dr. Barreiro’s publications include Native American Expressive Culture (1994), a special edition of the Akwe:kon Journal produced for the opening of NMAI’s George Gustav Heye Center in New York; the novel The Indian Chronicles (1993); and such scholarly books as View from the Shore: American Indian Perspectives on the Quincentenary (1990); Indian Roots of American Democracy (1992); Chiapas: Challenging History (1994); Panchito: Cacique de Montaña (2001); and, most recently, America Is Indian Country (2005), which he edited with Tim Johnson. A member of the Taino Nation of the Antilles, Barreiro received his Ph.D. in American Studies from the State University of New York at Buffalo.

RSVP to Terri Bates at batesmt@verizon.net noon on Wed, November 12, 2008