Contact: Aspen Harris
STARKVILLE, Miss.—Mississippi is celebrating Native American/American Indian History Month, with events sponsored by university organizations and a keynote address by Chief Silas Benn of the Mississippi Band of Choctaw Indians.
This month’s signature event, “Life As: Developing Identity through Academic Achievement,” will feature a keynote address by MBCI Secretary Cyrus Benn on November 15th from 6:00pm to 7:30pm in the Colvard Student Union’s Forks Auditorium. I will.
Sponsored by the Office of Academic Access and Support in the Department of Access, Diversity and Inclusion, the event will also showcase Indigenous culture with a dance performance by the Indigenous Student Alliance Association and a panel discussion featuring members of the student body. The U.S. national anthem will be sung in Choctaw by Choctaw Central Middle School’s American Indian Day Princess Carsyn Wallace.
Prior to that evening’s event, the Holmes Cultural Diversity Center will be hosting a “Cultural An exhibition will also be held.
The university will continue to host a Native American/American Indian History Month mixer for faculty, staff, and students hosted by the Department of Access, Diversity and Inclusion on November 21 from 3 to 5 p.m. at the Butler Guest House. do. Light refreshments will be provided.
For more information, contact the department at 662-325-2859 or adi@msstate.edu.
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