Nancy Lucero, PhD, will be the guest speaker at the Lakewood Chapter AAUW meeting on November 12 at 7:30 p.m. at Bethany Lutheran Church, (9th and Kipling, Lakewood).
November is American Heritage History Month and Dr. Lucero will speak abouta hidden aspect of Denver's history - the US Government's relocation of thousands of American Indian people from their reservations to Denver beginning in the late 1940s and continuing through the late1960s. She will speak about how early community building efforts by these relocatees resulted in the strong and vibrant urban Indian community seen today in the City. In addition, Lucero will discuss the myth that American Indians living in urban areas have lost their culture. She will share ways in which Indian people from more than one hundred different tribes maintain cultural connectedness and their specific tribal cultural identity while living in Denver's contemporary multicultural urban environment.
Nancy Lucero, PhD, is an adjunct faculty member at the University of Denver Graduate School of Social Work, and a licensed clinical social worker. She teaches classes in Native Studies and research methodology. Her past experience includes various leadership roles at the Denver Indian Family Resource Center in Lakewood, development of urban Indian child welfare programming, training of non-Indian professionals on culturally responsive social work practice with American Indians, and Indian mental health services. Dr Lucero recently completed an extensive research project examining generational differences in cultural identity and cultural connectedness among American Indians living in Denver.
This presentation is free and open to the public. Please call Patricia Wakham, Co-Program Coordinator at 303-423-2315 for further information about this fascinating presentation.