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2018-02-23T15:03:48.000Z
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Video Title:
Finding Common Ground 4 | Tara Houska
Description:
Finding Common Ground focuses on the complex history of African Americans and Native Americans and how their intertwined stories have become an essential part of American identity. In this short segment, symposium moderator Michel Martin announces that the invited speaker, Tara Houska (Ojibwe), could not attend due to a personal emergency. Ms. Martin then reads a abstract of the talk Ms. Houska was planning to give. Tara Houska is Ojibwe from Couchiching First Nation. She is the National Campaigns Director of Honor the Earth, a tribal rights attorney, and a cofounder of the nonprofit organization Not Your Mascots. She served as a Native American advisor to the Bernie Sanders campaign. Houska is involved in advocacy on a broad spectrum of issues facing indigenous communities, with a focus on environmental justice, protection of sacred sites, and institutional racism. Her experience ranges from grassroots organizing to working for the White House Council on Environmental Quality and lobbying on Capitol Hill. She has appeared on MSNBC, Comedy Central, RT America, CCTV, and contributes to the Guardian, Huffington Post, and Indian Country Today to elevate the conversation about extractive industries, destruction of indigenous lands, religious rights, cultural appropriation, and police brutality. Finding Common Ground is a collaboration between the National Museum of the American Indian and the National Museum of African American History and Culture. It was webcast and recorded in the Rasumson Theater of the National Museum of the American Indian on February 15, 2018.
Video Duration:
2 min 33 sec
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