The third installment of the ASU Indigenous speaker series, the Simon Ortiz and Labriola Center Lecture on Indigenous Land, Culture, and Community will take place Monday March 23rd, 2009.

Professor of Indigenous Governance at the University of Victoria, Gerald Taiaiake Alfred, will deliver a lecture entitled “Resurgence of Traditional Ways of Being: Indigenous Paths of Action and Freedom” at the Heard Museum Steele Auditorium at 7PM with a reception and book signing to follow at 8PM.

The Labriola National American Indian Data Center will host a reception on the ASU Tempe Campus from 3:00-4:00PM in the Labriola Center, Hayden Library room 209 .

All events are free and open to the public.

About Gerald Taiaiake Alfred

Professor of Indigenous Governance at the University of Victoria (Canada), Gerald Taiaiake Alfred is known for his leadership and groundbreaking research in the fields of Indigenous governance, philosophy and history, and also for his incisive social and political criticism. He has been awarded a Canada Research Chair, a National Aboriginal Achievement Award in the field of education, and the Native American Journalists Association award for best column writing.

Educated at Concordia and Cornell, Taiaiake lectures at universities and colleges in Canada, the United States, England and Australia, and serves as an advisor on land and governance issues for his own and many other Indigenous governments and organizations. His writing includes numerous scholarly articles and contributed essays in newspapers and journals, as well as three books: the influential and best-selling Peace, Power, Righteousness (2008), now in its second edition; Wasáse (2005), a runner-up for the McNally Robinson Aboriginal Book of the Year in 2005; and Heeding the Voices of Our Ancestors (1995).

About the Simon Ortiz and Labriola Center Lecture Series

The Simon Ortiz and Labriola Center Lecture on Indigenous Land, Culture, and Community at Arizona State University brings notable scholars and speakers to Arizona for public lectures twice a year. These speakers address topics and issues across disciplines in the arts, humanities, sciences, and politics. Underscoring Indigenous American experiences and perspectives, this series seeks to create and celebrate knowledge that evolves from an Indigenous worldview that is inclusive and that is applicable to all walks of life.