Defending Our Treaty Rights in the Time of COVID-19 (International Indian Treaty Council)

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AN INTERNATIONAL INDIAN TREATY COUNCIL WEBINAR:
Defending Our Treaty Rights in the Time of COVID-19

FRIDAY MAY 29, 2020, 9:00 – 10:30 AM PACIFIC DAYLIGHT TIME

This webinar will share Indigenous Peoples’ initiatives to defend the inherent and sovereign rights affirmed in Nation-to-Nation Treaties during the time of COVID-19.

PANELISTS:

Introduction: Andrea Carmen, Yaqui Nation, Executive Director, International Indian Treaty Council

Bill Means, Oglala Lakota Nation, South Dakota, Co-Founder and Board member, International Indian Treaty Council

Janene Yazzie, Diné, IITC Sustainable Development Program Coordinator and New Mexico Navajo-Hopi COVID Relief Effort Team Leader; update on COVID-19 Crisis

Phil Two Eagle, Executive Director, Sicangu Lakota Treaty Council, Rosebud South Dakota

Wilton Littlechild, International Chief for Treaties 6, 7 and 8, Ermineskin Cree Nation, Alberta Canada

Te Tui Shortland, Ngati Hine, Ngati Raukawa ki te Tonga, Managing Director of Awatea, Aotearoa (New Zealand)

Moderator, Roberto Múkaro Borrero, Taíno, United Confederation of Taíno People

Please click on https://www.iitc.org/online-trainings-webinars/ to download the materials for this webinar

To pre-register for the webinar via zoom, click on:

https://us02web.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_2fLr0kV0RviZwlBvRpvP5Q

English/Spanish interpretation will be provided.

Click here for information about how to use zoom’s webinar interpretation feature for those joining online.

For more information contact: communications@treatycouncil.org

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