The Honors College is collaborating with the Native American Student Association and The Department of History for a presentation by author and professor Dr. Brian Rice. His lecture, titled Journeys In The Land of The Peacemaker, is about bringing elders and members of the Iroquois community back to their homeland in Eastern Ontario and Central New York following the Great Law of Peace. The Law, also known as the Iroquois Constitution, is recognized for inspiring the union of the original 13 colonies during the creation of the United States.

Dr. Rice is a professor at The University of Winnipeg and enrolled member of the Mohawk Nation. He’s written several books including Encounters between Newcomers and Aboriginal Peoples in the East (2006) and Seeing the World with Aboriginal Eyes (2005). His dissertation, The Rotinonshonni, is about his 700-mile walk through the Iroquois homeland which has inspired other tribal members to do the same. Rice graduated with a doctorate in Traditional Aboriginal Knowledge from the Division of Transformative Learning at the California Institute of Integral Studies, which is the only PhD program in the world focused on indigenous studies.

The presentation is on Thursday November 17 at University Hall room 25 from 7 to 9 p.m. All students are welcome to attend. For more information, see the flier.