Healing the Colonizer Mind
November 12 @ 7:00 pm – 8:00 pm
Free online author talk with Louise Dunlap, author of Inherited Silence: Listening to the Land, Healing the Colonizer Mind. An exploration of her own story and understanding of the impact of settler colonialism on Native and settler peoples in Massachusetts (Massachusett, Nipmuc, and Wampanoag land) and California’s Bay Area and Napa Valley (Lisjan Ohlone and Mishewai Wappo land).
For many years Louise Dunlap lived in the Boston area, teaching at UMass, MIT and Tufts and working with a range of peace and justice organizations including the Cambridge Peace Commission, Community Change Inc., Coalition Against Apartheid, and Cambridge Eviction Free Zone.
Now back in Northern California, she supports a vibrant range of Land Return projects and is proud to pay shuumi (a land tax) to the Sogorea Te’ Land Trust.
She practices Buddhism with the community of Zen Master Thich Nhat Hanh. More at https://louisedunlap.net/
Free, but registration required: https://secure.everyaction.com/Ykp02X4QlU-3NWqabexs-Q2
Sponsored by Massachusetts Peace Action Education Fund (MAPA) and many co-sponsors including UUMass Action.
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