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UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN NATIVE AMERICAN STUDIES

PRESENTS

FEMINIST PERSPECTIVES

ON AFRICAN AMERICAN

AND NATIVE AMERICAN

REPARATIONS

OPEN FORUM

FRIDAY, MARCH 19

ANGELL HALL

AUDITORIUM B

UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN

7PM – 9:30PM

SPEAKERS:

ADJOA AIYETORO, N’COBRA

PATRICIA ALLARD, N’COBRA

WILLETTA DOLPHUS (LAKOTA), BOARDING SCHOOL HEALING PROJECT

SARAH DEER (MUSCOGEE) TRIBAL LAW AND POLICY INSTITUTE

ALISA BIERRIA, COMMUNITIES AGAINST RAPE AND ABUSE

ANDREA SMITH (CHEROKEE), UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN

MODERATOR:

ANDREA RITCHIE, INCITE! WOMEN OF COLOR AGAINST VIOLENCE

This forum will address some of the analysis and strategies that might

develop when one centers African American and Native American women within

reparations struggle. That is, one of the human rights violations

perpetrated by state policy in the forms of slavery and boarding schools

has been sexual violence perpetrated by both slave masters and boarding

school officials. However, continuing effect of this human rights

violation has been the internalization of sexual and other forms of gender

violence within African and Native American communities. Can a reparations

framework speak to the specific types of harms that women of color have

suffered? If so, how? Are there demands around reparations for the types

of continuing effects of human rights violations that are evidenced by

violence within communities, but are nonetheless colonial

legacies? Furthermore, how can an analysis that frames gender violence as

a continuing effect of human rights violations perpetrated by state policy

challenge the mainstream anti-domestic/sexual violence movement to directly

challenge state-sponsored sexual violence as central to its work?

for more information: Andrea Smith, 734-231-1845

co-sponsors: CAAS, Native American Students Association, Institute for

Research on Women and Gender, Women’s Studies, Detroit Chapter National

Lawyer’s Guild, Vice Provost for Academic Affairs, LSA Research and

Graduate Studies, Black Law Students Association, National Lawyers Guild (U

of Michigan Law School)