The long history of changes in American Indian leadership due to inter-tribal and Indian-white relations will be discussed during a lecture on the University of Colorado at Boulder campus on Thursday, July 19, from 7 p.m. to 8:30 p.m.
University of Kansas Professor Donald L. Fixico, a recognized leader in American Indian communities, will present the lecture "The Challenge for Modern American Indian Leadership," at the Benson Earth Sciences Building, room 185.
The talk is free and open to the public.
Fixico will discuss how leadership has evolved from within the tribal community in historic times to a contemporary native leadership representing tribal issues to the outside world. He also will talk about why it is imperative for American Indian leaders to belong to their tribes.
Fixico is director of the Indigenous Nations Studies Program at the University of Kansas and serves on the editorial boards of Ethnohistory, American Indian Culture and Research, Kansas History and the electronic journal AmIndian. He also is a board member of the National Endowment for the Humanities.
The lecture is co-sponsored by the Center of the American West, The Native American Rights Fund, the American Indian College Fund and the Western American Indian Chamber. For more information call (303) 492-4879 or visit the Center of the American West Web site at .