Native American Women's Issues
Sunday, February 10 2:00 p.m. Coffee, 3:00 p.m. Lecture
Education Center, Rain or Shine, FREE
Accokeek Foundation
3400 Bryan Point Road
Accokeek, Maryland 20607
301.283.2113

This lively discussion will consider issues impacting Native American women in our region, including health care, safety, education, and raising families in two worlds and will examine traditional views and cultural preservation from a modern-day perspective.

The Speaker, Karenne Wood, is Program Director for the Virginia Indian Heritage Program at the Virginia Foundation for the Humanities. Ms. Wood is an enrolled member of the Monacan Indian Nation and serves on the Monacan Tribal Council. She has worked at the National Museum of the American Indian as a researcher and directed a tribal history project with the Monacan Nation for six years. Ms. Wood held a gubernatorial appointment as Chair of the Virginia Council on Indians for four years, and she served on the National Congress of American Indians' Repatriation Commission.