Strong Women/Strong Nations 1: Opening Song and Introduction
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- Strong Women/Strong Nations 1: Opening Song and Introduction
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- "Strong Women/Strong Nations: Native American Women & Leadership" is a day-long symposium examining the complex identities of Native women through lively, insightful discussions by elected tribal leaders, activists, artists, and business leaders about the challenges, obstacles, and opportunities confronting women today. In this segment, Deborah Parker, tsicyaltsa (Tulalip), Former Vice Chairwoman of the Tulalip Tribes, gives an opening song for the symposium. Then, the symposium moderator, Brenda Toineeta Pipestem (Eastern Band of Cherokee), Chair, Board of Trustees, National Museum of the American Indian, provides an introduction to the dayʻs proceedings. Deborah Parker, tsicyaltsa (Tulalip) was elected to the Tulalip Tribes Board of Directors in 2012 and served as Vice-Chairwoman until 2015. She brings to Tulalip leadership nearly two decades of experience as a policy analyst, program developer, communications specialist, and committed cultural advocate and volunteer in the tribal and surrounding communities. She served as a Legislative Policy Analyst in the Office of Governmental Affairs from 2005-12 for the Tulalip Tribes. Parker helped the passage of the Violence Against Women Act (VAWA) in 2013. She is a trustee for the Smithsonian’s National Museum of the American Indian. Brenda Toineeta Pipestem (Symposium Chair) is a citizen of the Eastern Band of Cherokee Indians. She serves on the Supreme Courts of the Eastern Band of Cherokee Indians and the Mississippi Band of Choctaw Indians. Pipestem previously worked for the White House Commission on Race under President Bill Clinton, and with the Bureau of Indian Affairs as a Special Assistant to the Assistant Secretary of Indian Affairs and the Deputy Commissioner of Indian Affairs. Prior to attending law school, she worked for the North Carolina Commission of Indian Affairs, and for ORBIS Associates, an Indian education consulting firm in Washington, DC, working with Tribal and Public Schools’ Indian Education Programs. Pipestem is Chair of the Board of Trustees of the Smithsonian’s National Museum of the American Indian. She is an alumna of Duke University and Columbia Law School. The symposium was webcast and recorded at the Rasmuson Theater of the National Museum of the American Indian on March 18, 2016.
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- 11 min 19 sec
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- Education
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- Native Americans;American Indians
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