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From: LAKOTAWAN@aol.com
Date: Mon, 17 Apr 2000 13:53:29 EDT
Subject: Event Release!!

WORKING GROUP WITH INDIGENOUS PEOPLES-OLYMPIA
PO Box 2918, Olympia, WA  98507

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: April 17, 2000
CONTACT:  Amanda or Tiokasin
#360-943-5185, FX#(360) 570-0092,Tokalasa@aol.com

HEADLINE: "Awakening the Generations: Listening to Indigenous
        Voices"
WHEN:   Friday, April 28, 2000, 9:00am to 1:00am
WHERE:  Capitol Theatre, 206 5th Ave., downtown Olympia
WHAT:  "Awakening the Generations: Listening to Indigenous Voices" presented
by the Working Group with Indigenous Peoples - Olympia to give Voice to the
First Peoples with Indigenous presentations, performances, film screenings,
ceremony, music, a traditional salmonbake, guerilla theatre, poetry, artwork,
& community education.
An organizer of the event says, "We are putting together this event in
response to the increasing violence Indigenous Peoples are facing globally in
the wake of ongoing colonization and globalization."

KEYNOTE SPEAKER:  Madonna Thunder Hawk, Lakota elder
    7:00 pm, Capitol Theatre, 206 5th Ave. downtown

HEADLINER CONCERT:  JOHN TRUDELL & BAD DOG
    9:00 pm, Capitol Theatre, 206 5th Ave. downtown
Tickets for evening activities (keynote address & all concerts):
$15 general admission, $10-12 low income & students,
$7 Elders.
Advance Tickets at Rainy Day Records & Left Bank Books (Seattle): $13 general
admission, $7 Elders.
    Group rates available. Call: #360-943-5185.

EVENTS:
(Day Events Free, Salmonbake by Donation, Tickets for Concerts)

Sunrise Ceremony:
6:00 am, Marathon Park, on Capitol Lake

Speakers/Films/Art Show/ Information Fair:
9:00 am - 4:30 pm, Capitol Theatre, 206 5th Ave. downtown

Traditional Salmonbake:
4:30 pm - 6:30 pm, United Churches, 110 11th Ave. SE

Concerts:
8:00 pm - 12:30 am, Capitol Theatre, 206 5th Ave. downtown
 
"AWAKENING THE GENERATIONS: LISTENING TO INDIGENOUS VOICES:"
Friday, April 28th, 9:00 am to 1:00 am
PROGRAM:
SUNRISE & CLOSING CEREMONY: 6:00am, Marathon Park, on Capitol Lake
Dave Lopeman (Squaxin Island)
Drum

SPEAKERS/PRESENTATIONS:  9:00am - 4:30pm, Capitol Theatre
>Dave Lopeman (Squaxin Island): Welcome
>Carol Logan (Kalipuya): Sacred Sites, Graves Protection, & NAGPRA
>Chief Jake Swamp (Mohawk): Tree of Peace Society & longest peace in the world
>George Bowechop & Keith Johnson (Makah): Makah Whaling & Treaty Rights
>Leonard Peltier guerrilla readings from Prison Writings new CD
>Faith Spotted Eagle (Ihanktonwan): Ancestral remains protection vs. US Army
>Kakuta Hamisi (Masaai): Indigenous resistance of Masaai People of Kenya,
Africa
>Margene McGee (Pit River): Guerilla Grandmothers for Leonard Peltier

TRADITIONAL SALMONBAKE:  4:30pm-6:30pm, United Churches, 110 11th Ave. SE
(corner of 11th and Capitol Way)
>Presented by Chief Johnny Jackson (Cascade-Klickitat)
>Storytelling by Ed Edmo (Shoshone-Bannock) & Vi Hilbert (Upper Skagit)

MUSIC & EVENING KEYNOTE ADDRESS:  7:00pm - 1:00am, Capitol Theatre
Tickets for Evening Events: $15, $10-$12 low income & students, $7 Elders.
Advance tickets at Rainy Day Records $12, $7 Elders. Group rates available,
call #-943-5185.

Keynote Address:
7:00pm - 8:00pm     Madonna Thunderhawk, Lakota elder
Music:
8:00pm-9:00pm   Timothy Hull, Jim Page, Citizens Band, Lalo Valdez (Hopi)
9:00pm-10:30pm: JOHN TRUDELL & BAD DOG
10:30pm - 12:30am:   Blackfire (Dineh)  Tickets for late-night show only: $5

FILM SCREENINGS:  9:00am - 4:30pm, Capitol Theatre:
Paha Sapa: The Struggle for the Black Hills(Lakota)
Vanishing Prayer (Dineh)
Buffalo Action

ARTWORK:
Weavers for Freedom (Dineh)         Skip Mahawk (Dakota)
Maple Lane program                  Steve Hapy (Anishinaabeg)
Joe Shields (Dakota)

INFORMATION FAIR:
Columbia Hills vs. ENRON Corporation        Buffalo Field Campaign
Black Hills Protection vs. Kevin Costner        Mumia Abu-Jamal Support Group
Center for World Indigenous Studies     Radio Ranch
Northwest Leonard Peltier Support Group     Western Shoshone Defense Project
Big Mountain Support Group              Masters-In-Teaching Program TESC
TESC Reservation-Based Program

Contact:  #360-943-5185  Working Group with Indigenous Peoples - Olympia ###
 

*****"If you are neutral in a situation of injustice, you have chosen the
side of the oppressor." - Tutu *****
 

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