Thursday, April 12, 7 p.m.
First Unitarian Portland, 1211 SW Main St.
Doors open at 6:15 p.m.
Tickets $5–$20 sliding scale (no one turned away).
Reception to follow in Fuller Hall.

The lens through which we see our America and our understanding of history often excludes lived and historical experiences of other peoples. It is this exclusivity of viewpoint that the two standoffs Illustrate: how the Standing Rock Sioux Tribe understands its history and its rights as a nation versus that of the Bundy family and their armed supporters who faced off against their own federal government while carrying copies of the U.S. Constitution in their shirt pockets. Both groups resist the threat of imperial power, though viewed differently, and both are defined by perceptions of their roles in the story America tells itself about itself.  And so it is, that cowboy versus Indian meet with starkly different degrees of success.

Jacqueline Keeler is a Diné (Navajo) and Dakota writer living in Portland, Oregon. She is the editor of the new anthology Edge of Morning:Native Voices Speak for the Bears Ears and the author of the upcoming book Standing Rock to the Bundy Standoff: Occupation, Native Sovereignty, and the Fight for Sacred Landscapes. Her articles and essays are in The Nation, High Country News, Yes! Magazine, and many other publications.

Childcare available by advance reservation by April 2. Please click here to submit a request for childcare.

For more information, visit the First Unitarian Events page, or  contact Dana Buhl: dbuhl@firstunitarianportland.org / 503-228-6389 ext. 442.