CANCELLED: Noted Native Educator to Share Knowledge of Menominee Tribe July 26, 2009

Note: This event has been cancelled due the guest speaker's illness.
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Dr. S. Verna Fowler, founder and president of the College of Menominee Nation, will discuss the Menominee tribe’s successful struggle to regain federal recognition at 1 p.m. Sunday, July 26, 2009, at the Mitchell Museum of the American Indian, 3001 Central Street, Evanston.

Fowler will speak on "Menominee Termination, Restoration and Recovery.” The talk will detail a series of developments from the 1950s to the 1970s that saw the Wisconsin tribe’s loss of federal recognition, the onset of economic and social hardships, and the restoration of tribal sovereignty with a federally protected reservation.

Fowler was an assistant to Menominee leader Ada Deer, who led the lobbying effort to restore tribal status.

Fowler is an enrolled member of the Menomonee Indian Tribe of Wisconsin and was born on the reservation, where she lives today. She holds a doctorate in educational philosophy from the University of North Dakota and a master’s degree in education from the same university.

In 1999, she was appointed by President Clinton to the President’s Board of Advisors on Tribal Colleges and Universities. She was reappointed to that board in 2006 by President George W. Bush. She is a board member of the American Indian College Fund and the American Indian Higher Education Consortium.

Admission to the talk is included with museum admission, which is $5 for adults, $2.50 for seniors, students, teachers (with valid school ID), and children. Maximum admission per family group is $10. For information, phone (847) 475-1030. On the Net: http://www.mitchellmuseum.org.

Official Website: http://www.mitchellmuseum.org