The Center for Native American Studies and the Environmental Science Program at Northern Michigan University are seeking presentation proposals for the 2008 Indigenous Earth Day Summit to be held at NMU April 22-23. 
 
The Summit will function as a call to action on Indigneous environmental issues in the Great Lakes area, on Turtle Island and around the world.  An Aboriginal delegation from Australia will be featured as keynote presenters and will provide musical entertainment as part of the Earth Day celebration.
 
As the Summit is a call to action, presentations should ultimately include ideas on how to address Indigenous environmental concerns.  Topics include, but are not limited to, the following:
 
– Traditional Ecological Knowledge
– History of industrialism, Indigenous peoples & the Earth
– Sacred land
– Economic globalization & Indigenous peoples
– Indigenous lanugages & the Earth
– Industrial threats confronting Indigenous peoples
– Mother Earth in Indigenous art & music
– Solutions in Indigenous cultures to environmental problems
– Education & Indigenous environmental concerns
– Indigenous subsistence rights & protecting Mother Earth
– Global poisoning’s impact on Indigenous peoples
– Climate change & its impact on Indigenous peoples
– Films on Indigenous environmental issues to show at the Summit are also encouraged.
 
Proposals should be 150-300 words in length.  Deadline for submissions is Feb 20, 2008.  Activists, Native elders and Native community members are strongly encouraged to submit proposals.  Send proposals to:
 
adunn@nmu.edu (no attachments please)
 
-or-
 
Aimee Cree Dunn
Indigenous Earth Day Summit
112 Whitman Hall
Northern Michigan University
1401 Presque Isle Ave
Marquette, MI 49855
 
For more info: 906-227-1393 or www.nmu.edu/nativeamericans
 
The 2008 Indigenous Earth Day Summit is sponsored by NMU Center for Native American Studies, NMU Environmental Science Program and NMU International Affairs.