{"id":14804,"date":"2016-03-22T08:26:23","date_gmt":"2016-03-22T13:26:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/college.unc.edu\/?p=13243"},"modified":"2024-07-02T16:28:10","modified_gmt":"2024-07-02T16:28:10","slug":"blackhorse","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/collegearchive.unc.edu\/?p=14804","title":{"rendered":"Lead plaintiff in Blackhorse v. Pro-Football Inc. to give keynote address at April 1 Native Leaders Symposium"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_13244\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-13244\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-13244 size-medium\" src=\"\/\/casdev.unc.edu\/collegearchive\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/44\/2016\/03\/amanda_blackhorse_t400x400-300x300.jpg\" alt=\"amanda_blackhorse_t400x400\" width=\"300\" height=\"300\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-13244\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Amanda Blackhorse<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>\u201cHistorical Trauma and Healing: the Fourth Annual Native Leaders Symposium\u201d will be held April 1 at the Carolina Inn, and the public is invited to attend.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Amanda Blackhorse<\/strong> is the keynote speaker for the UNC-Chapel Hill event, and her talk is titled \u201cThe Colonization of Our Identities: Ending the Harmful Legacy of Native American Mascotry.\u201d Blackhorse, who is Din\u00e9 and a member of the Navajo Nation, was the lead plaintiff in <em>Blackhorse v. Pro-Football Inc<\/em>., which sought to cancel the federal registrations of the Washington, D.C., NFL team. She also helped found the group \u201cArizona to Rally Against Native American Mascots.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cRace-based stereotypes and misrepresentations have contributed to the historical trauma impacting Native communities, and removing or replacing them is part of the healing process,\u201d said Meredith McCoy, a UNC-Chapel Hill doctoral student in American studies. McCoy and Aubrey Lauersdorf, a doctoral student in history, are co-presidents of First Nations Graduate Circle (FNGC), a UNC-Chapel Hill organization of American Indian graduate and professional students.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cFNGC is excited about the conversations around trauma, representation and healing that Amanda\u2019s talk will help develop on UNC\u2019s campus,\u201d McCoy added.<\/p>\n<p>Julie Reed is the Sequoyah Fellows Alumni Speaker, and her talk is titled \u201cWar of 1812 Pensions, Gadugi and U.S. Social Welfare.\u201d Reed, a member of the Cherokee Nation, is an assistant professor of history at the University of Tennessee, Knoxville. She received her doctorate from UNC-Chapel Hill, where she held a Sequoyah Fellowship within The Graduate School\u2019s Royster Society of Fellows. Her forthcoming book is titled <em>Serving the Nation: Cherokee Sovereignty and Social Welfare, 1800-1907<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>Reed will speak at 1:45 p.m., followed by Blackhorse at 2:45 p.m. The public is invited to attend a reception following the afternoon sessions.<\/p>\n<p>FNGC and The Graduate School are sponsoring the event. 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