“Indian Residential Schools in the United States”

43 Gill Street,Kingston NY 12401

23 November, 2021

Description

Performance by Matoaka Little Eagle, accompanied by a lecture on the history of "Indian Residential Schools" by Bermanzohn. Join us for our "Indian Residential Schools" program, featuring a lecture on Indian Residential Schools by Sally Bermanzhon, and a storytelling performance by Matoaka Little Eagle at the African Roots Center. This program is free and open to the public. It will be conducted both via zoom, as well as at the African Roots Center. There are 30 seats available for the in person session, so be sure to grab your ticket! The speakers for the program on the U. S.Indian Residential Schools are: Matoaka Little Eagle, a Native singer, dancer, storyteller, and educator, of Tewa, Apache, and Chickahominy descent. Throughout her lifetime, she has introduced the public and thousands of students to diverse Native cultures in America in her goals of dispelling stereotypes and promoting respect, tolerance, and celebration of the gifts and cultural understandings that we may share. Some of her performance venues include Frontier Town in the Adirondack Mountains of New York (for 15 years), Lincoln Center’s Meet-the-Artist program, the American Museum of Natural History, the Museum of the American Indian, the Town Hall, American Dance Guild, Clearwater Festival, the World of Music and Dance Festival in Toronto, Symphony Space, Carnegie Hall, and many others. Matoaka is a member of the Thunderbird American Indian Dancers. She holds a Bachelor of Science degree, Elementary Education, SUNY Plattsburgh. Sally Avery Bermanzohn is a life-long activist for racial justice and women’s equality. She was present at the Greensboro Massacre in 1979 when Ku Klux Klan attacked demonstrators and killed five people; her husband survived a bullet wound to the head, and remains partially paralyzed. Sally earned a PhD from the City University of New York, and taught at Brooklyn College for twenty years. She wrote Through Survivors' Eyes: From the Sixties to the Greensboro Massacre (Vanderbilt University Press). Sally is part of Neetopk Keetopk (“My Friends, Your Friends” in Algonquian) a group dedicated to Native American practice and teaching. She is also active in the A J Williams-Myers African Roots Center. She recently published two works of historical fiction, Indian Annie, A Grandmother’s Story, and Willow’s Secrets (Epigraph).