Indigenous Peoples’ Day: Film Screening and Q&A with Indigenous Activist Casey Camp-Horinek
Oct 2024
14
6:30 pm - 8:30 pm
In observance of Indigenous Peoples' Day, a screening of "The Condor and the Eagle," a documentary film on climate justice, followed by a question-and-answer session with an Indigenous environmental activist featured in the film, Casey Camp-Horinek.
In "The Condor and the Eagle," four Indigenous leaders embark on an extraordinary trans-continental adventure from the Canadian Boreal forests to deep into the heart of the Amazonian jungle to unite the peoples of North and South America and deepen the meaning of “Climate Justice.”
Ms. Camp-Horinek is the Environmental Ambassador and Hereditary Drumkeeper of the Womens' Scalp Dance Society of the Ponca Nation of Oklahoma. Because of Casey's work, the Ponca Nation is the first Tribe in the State of Oklahoma to adopt the Rights of Nature Statute, and to pass a moratorium on fracking on tribal lands.
Sponsored by Campus Life, Office of Faculty Development, Mojekwu Fund, and the Departments of Environmental Studies, Sociology and Anthropology, and American Studies.
On Campus Accessibility Accommodations:
Contact Kirsten Schramm at 847-735-5167 or kschramm@lakeforest.edu at least 72 hours in advance.
