Event Title

Healing Our Collective Trauma and Reconnecting with Spiritual Source

Presenters

Sherri Mitchell

Presenter Information

Sherri Mitchell - Weh'na Ha'mu Kwasset

Indigenous rights attorney
Founding Director, Land Peace Foundation
Advisor, Indigenous Elders and Medicine People’s Council of North and South America

Introduction by Cathleen Miller

Start Date

13-9-2018 9:00 AM

End Date

13-9-2018 10:00 AM

Comments

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Additional Presenter Information

Sherri Mitchell - Weh’na Ha’mu Kwasset

Indigenous rights attorney
Founding Director, Land Peace Foundation
Advisor, Indigenous Elders and Medicine People’s Council of North and South America

Sherri Mitchell was born and raised on the Penobscot Indian reservation. She received her Bachelor’s degree from the University of Maine, and received her Juris Doctorate and a certificate in Indigenous People’s Law and Policy from the University of Arizona’s James E. Rogers College of Law. Sherri speaks and teaches around the world on issues of Indigenous rights, environmental justice, and spiritual change. She is the Founding Director of the Land Peace Foundation, an organization dedicated to the global protection of Indigenous rights and the preservation of the Indigenous way of life. Sherri currently serves as an advisor to the Indigenous Elders and Medicine People’s Council of North and South America.

Her work is featured in the documentary film Dancing with the Cannibal Giant (New Story Film, 2017), and her first book Sacred Instructions (North Atlantic Books, 2018) was released in February. Sherri is also the cohost of the radio program Love (and Revolution) Radio, which focuses on real-life stories of heart-based activism and revolutionary spiritual change.