Conversations For Racial Justice
Franklin County’s First Peoples:
History, Heritage, & Current
Events
Saturday, April 5, 2014
10 a.m. – 12:30 p.m.
Doors
open at 9:30
First
Congregational Church
43
Silver Street, Greenfield MA 01301
“If we deny a people's history, we
deny that people's existence.
If the voices of our ancestors are
silenced, our history is silenced.”
The first
peoples of our area left a 12,000-year legacy of living, loving, laughing, and
dying. That legacy has been – and is still
being – wiped out and denied, actively and passively. We will
examine how inequities in cultural preservation have created social and economic
injustice here in the valley and beyond.
Of Cherokee and Abenaki decent, presenter Joe Graveline has been
working on Native American/Indian issues for over twenty years. President and
Co-founder of the Nolumbeka Project, Joe specializes in bringing to light the
unrepresented Indian side of New England history. He is active on environmental
and social issues on a local, regional and national level. Learn more at www.nolumbekaproject.org.
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FREE -
Light snacks
provided
Childcare available by
RSVP ~ Let us know number & ages of children
in advance
Donations
Welcome
BRING your courage, your
inquiring mind, & your compassion.
For
more information or to reserve childcare:
email@massslaveryapology.org
or 413-625-2951
FREE PARKING behind church.
Wheelchair accessible.
Please, no fragranced products.
MANY THANKS to the FIRST CONGREGATIONAL CHURCH OF
GREENFIELD
This program is supported
in part by grants from the Ashfield, Bernardston, Buckland, Conway,
Deerfield, Gill, Montague, New Salem, Orange, and Shelburne Cultural
Councils, local agencies which are supported by the Massachusetts Cultural
Council, a state agency.
