Water River Life Giver Symposium
The Vice President of the Navajo Nation, Jonathan Nez, will be the keynote speaker at a public event at Dartmouth College focused on the spectrum of effects in communities challenged with water crises. The event will highlight the Navajo Nation’s clean water crisis in the wake of the Gold King Mine Waste Water Spill with Navajo speakers providing insight into this crisis, as well as a local perspective from Barry Lampke, Project Manager for Voices for the Lake, a project of ECHO Lake Aquarium and Science Center/Leahy Center for Lake Champlain.
Water River Life-Giver will feature both speakers and a discussion panel to bring awareness to the water crises that challenge our communities. The event is open to the public and free of charge. The Abenaki drumming and singing group, Black Hawk Singers, will provide opening and closing songs for the event.
Joining Vice President Nez, will be three other speakers/panelists: Barry Lampke, Voices of the Lake, Duane "Chili" Yazzie, Shiprock Chapter President, and Tommy Rock, Rock Environmental Consulting.
To gain awareness about the issue, the website WaterRiverLifeGiver.org will feature articles, news, and contests for art, poetry, and blog writing with a focus on “Clean Water is an Everybody Issue.” Speaker biographies and a link for a Livestream of the event is available at WaterRiverLifeGiver.org.
Sponsors: The event is hosted and underwritten by Dartmouth’s Native American Studies and the Office of the Provost. Other sponsors include Dartmouth Toxic Metals Superfund Research Program, the Native American Program, the Office of Sustainability, and Vermont Water.
