Environments and Everyday Life in the Navajo Nation
Thursday, March 15, 2018
5 p.m. – 6:30 p.m.
Plemmons Student Union, Room 226 (Linville Falls)
This event is free and open to the public. The presentation will be followed by a reception with refreshments.
Navajo activists, Adella Begaye and Robyn Jackson, from the organization, Diné CARE (Citizens Against Ruining our Environment), will lead a presentation on environmental justice.
Diné CARE is an all-Navajo environmental organization based within the Navajo homeland. Their main goal is to empower local and traditional people to organize, speak out and determine their own destinies. As an indigenous environmental organization, they aim to protect and preserve the Diné way of life.
Adella Begaye has been an active advocate for community health and environmental justice for over 25 years. As board president of Diné CARE, she has assisted the organization in numerous successful campaigns, including exposing and ending irresponsible forest management and destructive overharvesting in her community.
Robyn Jackson, Tó’áhaní (Near the Water Clan), is a community advocate from Wheatfields, in the Chuska Mountains. She has been involved in several environmental campaigns and research projects on the Navajo Nation, including the development of the Diné Food Sovereignty Report. Robyn has a B.A. in Sociology from Fort Lewis College.
This event is sponsored by: a SAFE Grant from the College of Arts & Sciences; the Native American Students Association; the Departments of Anthropology and Cultural, Gender & Global Studies.
For more information, contact Dr. Dana Powell, Dept of Anthropology, powellde@appstate.edu.
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Diné CARE is an all-Navajo environmental organization based within the Navajo homeland.
Diné CARE is an all-Navajo environmental organization based within the Navajo homeland.