Northern Michigan University is hosting the 2008 Indigenous Earth Day Summit in Marquette, Michigan on April 22-23.

Sponsored by the NMU Center for Native American Studies, the Environmental Science Program and the Office of International Programs, the summit is a call to action on Indigenous environmental issues in the Great Lakes area, on Turtle Island and around the world.

An Aboriginal Australian delegation from the Traditional Knowledge Revival Pathways project are keynote presenters and will provide musical entertainment.
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Presentations will include ideas on how to address Indigenous environmental concerns including traditional ecological knowledge, education and Indigenous environmental concerns, history of industrialism, industrial threats, Indigenous peoples and the earth, economic globalization and Indigenous peoples, Indigenous languages and the earth, solutions in Indigenous cultures to environmental problems, Indigenous subsistence rights and protection of sacred land, global poisoning and the impact on Indigenous peoples, climate change and its impact on Indigenous peoples

The wide variety of presentations include music, art, films, papers and panels from activists, Native elders and Native community members.

For more information contact the NMU Center for Native American Studies at 906-227-1397

http://www.nmu.edu/nativeamericans

Northern Michigan University

Center for Native American Studies

1401 Presque Isle Ave

Marquette, MI 49855