Media Alert
Who:
American Indian Learning Resource Center, campus and community members, guest speaker Linda LeGarde Grover
What:
2022 Spring Feast
When:
Tuesday, March 29, 2022 from 11 a.m. - 2 p.m.
Where:
Kirby Ballroom, 1120 Kirby Drive
Why:
“The biannual Fall and Spring Feasts celebrate the new seasons, and serve as a way for both Native and non-Native students to experience Indigenous cultures,” says Jody O’Connor, director of the American Indian Learning Resource Center. “What better way to bring the community together than to share and converse over traditional foods.”
“We’re connecting American Indian and Alaska Native students and allies, as well as the Twin Ports Native American community with UMD,” adds Iris Carufel, assistant director of the American Indian Learning Resource Center.
This year’s Spring Feast puts special emphasis on Native American women. The guest speaker is Linda LeGarde Grover, author and Professor Emeritus.
Dennis Olson, enrolled member of Fond du Lac Band of Lake Superior Chippewa and Commissioner of the Minnesota Office of Higher Education, is also planning on attending.
Fond du Lac elder Ricky Defoe is doing a pipe ceremony to start the function and bless the food, and Cedar Creek is performing traditional drumming and singing.
Due to the COVID pandemic, this is the first time the Spring Feast has been held since 2019.