Imagine being in a room full of men, having only a few minutes to convey the suffering and injustice endured by your people, advocating for their rights in a continual battle for survival. Now imagine not only being a different gender, but coming from a separate culture.

Guest Speakers (in order of appearance):

Farar Elliot, Curator, U.S. House of Representatives

Cari Carpenter, Professor of English at West Virginia University and co-editor of the book “Newspaper Warrior: Sarah Winnemucca Hopkins’s Campaign for American Indian Rights.”

Sherry Ely-Mendes, great-great granddaughter of Sarah Winnemucca, Pyramid Lake Paiute Tribe

Sharyl Pahe-Short, Visitor Services Manager, and Adrienne Smith, imagiNATIONS Activity Center Manager, Smithsonian’s National Museum of the American Indian

Reflections on Rosa Parks