The First Diversity: Relations Between Native and Non-Native Americans and Multi-Religious Imperatives to Saving Language and Culture

Diversity and Community:
The Challenges and the Opportunities

The United States Conference of Religions for Peace (now known as Religions for Peace - USA) in conjunction with The Intertribal Wordpath Society Cordially Invite You To Attend

Welcome
Ms. Barbara A. Warner
Executive Director, Oklahoma Indian Affairs Commission

Dr. Alice Anderton
Executive Director, Intertribal Wordpath Society A Brief History of Relations Between Native Americans and Non-Native Americans Moderator

Mr. Lawrence Hart
Director, Cheyenne Cultural Center Keynote Speaker

Dr. C. Blue Clark
Interim Director, Native American Legal Resource Center, OKCU

Why Should I Care If Another Language Dies?
Religious Imperatives to Saving Culture

Moderator

Ms. Margaret Mauldin
Professor of Anthropology, University of Oklahoma

Panel Presenters
Dr. Gus Palmer Jr., Prof. of Anthropology, University of Oklahoma
Ms. Nancy Richardson Steele, Karuk Storyteller and Community Activist
Dr. Ofelia Zepeda, Prof. of Linguistics and American Indian Studies, Univ. of Arizona

October 18, 2002
1:00 p.m. - 5:30 p.m.

Cleveland County Fairgrounds
6:15 E. Robinson Street
Norman, Oklahoma

This is one of 12 national symposia on diversity issues funded by the Rockefeller Foundation.

The symposium will be followed by IWS' annual Celebration of Indian Language and Culture.