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Mar 31 / el capitan

UBC-GLOBAL INDIGENOUS CONFERENCE

The Global Indigenous Conference at the University of British Columbia (UBC) will be held on April 1st and 2nd, 2011 in Sty-Wet-Tan, the Great Hall of the UBC First Nations Longhouse in Vancouver Canada.

Indigenous and non-indigenous students at UBC have collaborated to bring together Canadian and international Indigenous activists, academics, and youth for this conference on Indigenous People’s and Globalization. A highlight of the conference will be a case study on mining and oil development within recognized Indigenous lands in Peru by Canadian and American companies.

Keynote Speaker:

DR DAVID SUZUKI, cofounder of the David Suzuki Foundation. A geneticist and broadcaster, Dr. Suzuki is well known as host of The Nature of Things and is a professor emeritus at UBC.

For more information please visit:

http://aboriginal.ubc.ca/gic/

Also, for a link to Dr. David Suzuki’s “The Real Avatar” on the Nature of things check out: http://www.cbc.ca/documentaries/natureofthings/2011/peru/

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