Here’s a press release about a workshop Nov. 5, a discussion centering on the United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples:

MISSOULA – A daylong workshop Friday, Nov. 5, at The University of Montana will offer several perspectives on the rights and sovereignty of indigenous peoples. “Indigenous Peoples’ Sovereignty: Global and Local Perspectives” will take place from 8 a.m. to 4 p.m. in Gallagher Business Building Room 106. A reception will follow in the rotunda of UM’s Payne Family Native American Center.

The workshop and reception are free and open to the public.

The event of the Indigenous Peoples and Multicultural Societies of the UM Native American studies department and the University of Tromsø Centre for Sami Studies is co-sponsored by UM’s Office of the Provost, Department of Native American Studies, International Programs and Humanities Montana.

Featured speakers include Alan Parker, director of the Northwest Indian Applied Research Institute at Evergreen State College. A citizen of the Chippewa Cree Tribal Nation, Parker lived for many years on the Rocky Boy’s Reservation in Montana. He graduated from the University of California, Los Angeles, School of Law in 1972 and practiced law in Washington, D.C., for more than 20 years before joining the Evergreen College faculty in 1997.

For more information, call UM Native American studies Professor Kate Shanley at 406-243-5832 or e-mail kathryn.shanley@umontana.edu .

Jodi Rave