Marquette – Great Lakes mining will be the focus of the fifth Indigenous Earth Issues Summit on Friday, February 21 from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. in the Whitman Hall Commons at Northern Michigan University. It is free and open to the public.
Featured presenters are from Anishinaabe communities in the Upper Peninsula, Minnesota and Wisconsin. A room with free children’s activities will also be available throughout the summit, run by NMU student volunteers from the School of Education, Leadership and Public Service.
Registration is not required, but would be helpful. Forms can be found at http://www.nmu.edu/nativeamericans. For more information, call 227-1397. The summit is presented by the NMU Center for Native American Studies, with funding from the Keweenaw Bay Indian Community and the NMU College of Arts and Sciences.
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