Indigenous Peoples Day events to replace Columbus Day
Fred Martinez was a Navajo teenager murdered by a man against Martinez’s part of a Navajo honored tradition of “nadleeh”, or “two spirits” — the possession of both masculine and feminine traits.
The documentary on Martinez, titled “Two Spirits,” will be shown at 4 p.m. Oct. 10 in Brooks Auditorium 176. A question and answer panel with a Two Spirit and Ally will occur after the movie.
The event is in celebration of Indigenous Peoples Day, a replacement of Columbus Day.
A second event, “Embodied Movement: Historical evolution of the Pow wow”, will follow the documentary at 7 p.m. in Moore Hall’s Kiva Auditorium. Participants will be taught the evolution of pow-wow protocols and the impact colonization had on them. Students will work to re-define how they view themselves in a pow-wow circle by working to deconstruct gender binaries. The workshop has an emphasis on movement.
