Madison Event Contact: Colin Gillis, 608-257-6050, rainbowbookstorecooperative@gmail.com
To arrange interviews with Lakota Elders contact Canupa Gluha Mani at 605-517-1547. LSP Truth Tour press contact is Thembi Blessington at 828-707-8619.
History Making Truth Tour Stops in Madison, Wisconsin on Journey from Pine Ridge Reservation to the United Nations and White House
WHO: Lakota Elders Truth Tour of traditional Lakota Elders from Pine Ridge Reservation.
WHAT: Educational and cultural presentation followed by a screening of the incendiary Lakota documentary Red Cry, about genocide in America.
WHERE: University of Wisconsin, Science Hall, 550 N. Park St., Room 180.
WHEN: Thursday, April 4th, 6:30 pm.
MORE: The Lakota Elders Truth Tour is a historic, multi-city education and advocacy tour featuring Lakota Elders Wagunpi Woashake Ikicupi (Elders Take Back Their Strength) on their way to the United Nations in New York and White House in Washington D.C. to demand an end to the policies and practices that are causing the ongoing genocide of their people. In each of the 12+ cities along the Truth Tour route, Lakota Elders will speak of their lives and resistance, backed by a showing of the groundbreaking new Lakota documentary Red Cry. The event is free to the public. Donations to support the Truth Tour are both welcome and needed.
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Lakota Wagunpi Woashake Ikicupi is Lakota Elders taking back their strength to end the genocide of the Lakota people and renew matriarchal Grandmother leadership on Pine Ridge and across the Lakota Nation. An international solidarity movement is building to Stand Behind the Lakota Grandmothers backed by the Lakota Solidarity Project with the Lakota Strong Heart Warrior Society. Join the movement at LakotaGrandmothers.org
