Northwest Indian Center Memo to Evergreen Staff and Students

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Northwest Indian Center Memo to Evergreen Staff and Students
Date
1985
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The Evergreen Slate College . Library 3221
Olympia , Washington 98505
(206) 866-6105 : messages 866-6034

FOR IMNEDIATE RELEASE
February 4, 1985

Representatives from the International Indian Treaty Council
(IITC) will be holding a forum at The Evergreen State College
Monday February 11, in Lecture Hall 1 at 1:30pm.

The IITC is

considering Evergreen as the sight of their 11th annual conference, and the forum is designed to inform the public of the IITC
which was formed in 1975 as a Non Governmental Organization
within The United Nations.
of the history of

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There will also be a slide presentation

IITC, as well as a documentary of The Longest

Walk 1978, in which 30,000 Native Americans and supporters marched
upon Washington D.C. from San Fransisco to protest 11 pieces of
legislation that would terminate government support to Indian
Reservations.

Representatives include Janet McCloud from the

Northwest Indian Womens Circle; Larry Anderson Dine Nation, from
American Indian Movement; Russell Means Lakota Nation, from
American Indian Movement and Yellow Thunder Camp; Bill Means Lakota
Nation, from American Indian Movement.

Bill is also the director

of the International Indian Treaty Council.
by The

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This event is sponsered

Indian Center, Evergreen Political Information

Center (EPIC), MEChA, and the Native Americans Studies Program .

.

.

TO:

Evergreen students, staff and faculty

FROM:

Northwest Indian Center, TESC

SUBJECT:

Thomas Banyanca, Hopi Prophecy Intepreter scheduled for

866-6105

March 5, 1983 at the Evergreen State College has been
cancelled due to an emergency.

Will be rescheduled

again sometime in the middle of March •