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SUMMARY:"What Side Are You On: A Tohono O'odham Life Across Borders"
LOCATION:Tomas Rivera Conference Room\, Union
DESCRIPTION:Mark your Calendars / Native American Heritage Month\n\nPublic
  lecture\, November 10\, 2026\n\nUTEP Campus / 6:00 – 8:00 pm\, Tomas Riv
 era Conference Room\, Union\n\nMike Wilson and Jose’ Antonio Lucero\, Wha
 t Side Are You On: A Tohono O’odham Life Across Borders (University of No
 rth Carolina Press\, 2024) [Open source e-book]\n\nThis collaborative boo
 k follows the remarkable life of Mike Wilson\, a citizen of the Tohono O’
 odham Nation\, which sits along the U.S. – Mexico Border. Wilson is a hum
 anitarian activist who has spent years helping migrants survive in the So
 noran Desert\, but he is also a veteran and a film documentarian. The boo
 k recounts is journey around the world\, the struggles he faced as a chil
 d\, and eventually his service in the military in Central America. It off
 ers a sensitive portrayal of his human rights work over the past several 
 decades in Southern Arizona.\n\nDr. José Antonio (Tony) Lucero grew up in
  El Paso\, and he is presently the Chair of the Department of Comparative
  History of Ideas at the University of Washington\, Seattle. A widely rec
 ognized scholar of Indigenous and Borderlands Studies\, Dr. Lucero collab
 orated with Mike through numerous oral history interviews to help write t
 his autobiography\, but he also adds insightful theoretical and methodolo
 gical analysis throughout the book.\n\nThe presentation will follow a con
 versational format in which Wilson and Lucero discuss the process of coll
 aborating on a life history\, while also addressing contemporary issues f
 acing \n\nhttp://next-to-u.app/events/370f8747-9ba1-4ecb-a496-9e442ae5318
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URL:http://next-to-u.app/events/370f8747-9ba1-4ecb-a496-9e442ae53188
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