EXTRA CREDIT OPPORTUNITY!!

Attend this event. Write a 500-word summary and response that a) proves you were there and b) discusses how such a live event is different from mass communication and c) tells what you learned.

Gary Clayton Anderson, Professor of History at the University of Oklahoma,
will speak on Monday, May 7, at 7 pm in the American Indian Resource Center.
His talk, entitled "Ethnic Cleansing & American Indians," is free and open
to the public. Faculty should encourage their students to attend.

Professor Anderson is a preeminent scholar of American Indian history. His
book, The Conquest of Texas: Ethnic Cleansing in the Promised Land,
1820‑1875 (2005) was nominated for the Pulitzer Prize, and his other works
include studies of the Dakota in Minnesota and biographies of Sitting Bull
and Little Crow.

If anyone has questions, contact Tom Murphy in the History Dept at 4355 or
jmurphy@bemidjistate.edu.

The lecture is sponsored by the College of Arts and Letters, College of
Professional Studies, Indian Studies, Department of Education, Department of
History, and Department of Sociology & Social Work.