The film "Dawnland," Emmy
Award-winner for outstanding research, will be shown on Wednesday, Nov. 6
at 7 p.m. in Ashland University's Hawkins-Conard Student Center
Auditorium as part of the College of Arts & Sciences' biennial
Symposium Against Indifference which is focusing on "Liberty and
Responsibility." Co-sponsored by the Ashland Center for Nonviolence and the Native American Awareness Committee of the United Methodist Church, the free, public event will also include a panel discussion immediately following the film's screening with Kimberlee Medicine Horn Jackson of the Yankton Sioux Tribe; Nancy Udolph, Ashland University Associate Professor of Social Work; and Daniel Hawk, Ashland Theological Seminary Professor of Old Testament.
For most of the 20th century, government agents forced Native American children from their homes and placed them with white families to save them from being Indian. As recently as the 1970s, one in four Native children nationwide were living in non-Native foster care, adoptive homes, or boarding schools. Many children experienced devastating emotional and physical harm by adults who mistreated them and tried to erase their cultural identity.
"Dawnland" goes behind-the-scenes as this historic body grapples with difficult truths, reconciliation, racial healing, tribal autonomy, and child welfare system reform. Read more at cas-symposium.blogspot.com
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