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Virtual: “Social Justice: A Narragansett Perspective”

Lorén Spears, Narragansett, and Executive Director of Tomaquag Museum, will share the historical and contemporary colonization constructs, impacts of conquest, historical and intergenerational trauma and today’s social justice initiatives while expressing the resiliency, vibrancy and cultural continuation of the Native community.

Register here: https://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZEtfumqrzwoGdyeLBmqbLg-59WnrXghANAw

Speaker Biography

Lorén M. Spears, Narragansett, Executive Director of Tomaquag Museum, holds a Master’s in Education and received a Doctor of Humane Letters, honoris causa, from the University of Rhode Island. She is an author, artist and shares her cultural knowledge with the public through museum programs. She has written curriculum, poetry, and narratives published in a variety of publications such as Dawnland Voices, An Anthology of Indigenous Writing of New England; Through Our Eyes: An Indigenous View of Mashapaug Pond; The Pursuit of Happiness: An Indigenous View and From Slaves to Soldiers: The 1st Rhode Island Regiment in the American Revolution. Recently, she co-edited a new edition of  A Key into the Language of America by Roger Williams.n

Details

Date:
Apr 1, 2021
Time:
5:30 pm - 6:30 pm
Cost:
Free
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Website:
https://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZEtfumqrzwoGdyeLBmqbLg-59WnrXghANAw

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