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November 11 - Veterans Day Flag Ceremony

Presented By: Veterans Services

During the Flag Ceremony, there will be a performance from two student leaders from the American Indian Student Leadership club. 

In-Person Location:

Taylorsville Redwood Campus
Outdoor Event - The Realms
(Located between the CT Building & TB Building)
10 a.m.

To Join Remotely:

SLCC Veterans Center


November 16 - NATIVE AMERICAN REPRESENTATION IN MEDICINE

Presented By: Pre-Medical Professionals Club

In-Person Location:

Taylorsville Redwood Campus
Science and Industry Building (SI) 298
12:30 p.m.


November 17 - POETRY READING BY TACEY ATSITTY

Presented By: Student Writing & Reading Center 

Tacey M. Atsitty, Diné, is Tsénahabiłnii (Sleep Rock People) and born for Ta’neeszahnii (Tangle People). Her maternal grandfather is Tábąąhí (Water Edge People) and her paternal grandfather is Hashk’áánhadzóhí (Yucca Fruit Strung-Out-In-A-Line People) from Cove, AZ.

She is a recipient of the Truman Capote Creative Writing Fellowship, the Corson-Browning Poetry Prize, Morning Star Creative Writing Award, and the Philip Freund Prize. She holds bachelor’s degrees from Brigham Young University and the Institute of American Indian Arts, and an MFA in Creative Writing from Cornell University. Her work has appeared or is forthcoming in POETRY Magazine, Kenyon Review Online, Prairie Schooner, Crazyhorse, Literary Hub, New Poets of Native Nations, and other publications. Her first book is Rain Scald (University of New Mexico Press, 2018). 

She is the poetry judge for Eggtooth Editions chapbook contest, director of the Navajo Film Festival, a member of the Board of Directors for Lightscatter Press, a member of the Advisory Council for Brigham Young University’s Charles Redd Center for Western Studies, and member of the Advisory Board for the Intermountain All-Women Hoop Dance Competition. She is a PhD student in the Creative Writing Program at Florida State University. (http://taceymatsitty.com/

In-Person Location:

Student Reading & Writing Center
Taylorsville Redwood Campus
Academic and Administration Building (AAB) 129
Noon-1 p.m.

To Join Remotely:

Join Zoom Meeting

Meeting ID: 830 3459 6882
Passcode: 482876


November 22 – “COURAGE TO DREAM” STUDENT LEADERSHIP EVENT

Presented By: Joseph Du Shane Navanick

In-Person Location:

Taylorsville Redwood Campus
Student Center (STC) Oak Room
Noon-1:30 p.m.


November 30 - UNMASKING THE HIDDEN CRISIS OF MURDERED AND MISSING INDIGENOUS WOMEN (MMIW) 

In-Person Location:

Taylorsville Redwood Campus
Student Center (STC) Student Event Center
1-2 p.m.


December 3 - NATIVE AMERICAN HEALTH PANEL 

In-Person Location:

Taylorsville Redwood Campus
Student Center (STC) Student Event Center
Noon-2 p.m.


NATIVE AMERICAN ART MURAL SHOWCASE

Presented by: American Indian Student Leadership

In-Person Location:

Office of Diversity and Multicultural Affairs
Taylorsville Redwood Campus
Student Center (STC) 236

*ON DISPLAY UNTIL DECEMBER 3


SLCC LAND ACKNOWLEDGEMENT

Salt Lake Community College is located on the Native American shared territory of the Goshute, Navajo, Paiute, Shoshone, and Ute People. We honor the original ancestors of this land and also offer respect to our other tribal communities. We acknowledge this history to cultivate respect for and advocate with our Indigenous students and communities still connected to this land.