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Flying Eagle Woman Fund Announces Award Ceremony April 24, 2008 6:30pm 777 United Nations Plaza, 2nd Floor (44th St. and 1st Ave) The Ingrid Washinawatok El-Isaa Flying Eagle Woman Fund is awarding three outstanding women the first annual Ingrid Washinawatok El-Issa O’Peqtaw Metaehmoh - Flying Eagle Woman Peace, Justice, and Sovereignty Award. The women -- Rosemary Richmond, formerly the Director of the American Indian Community House in New York City; Elsa Stamatopoulou, Chief of the Secretariat, United Nations Permanent Forum on Indigenous Issues; and Dr. Andrée-Nicola McLaughlin, the Dr. Betty Shabazz Distinguished Professor of Social Justice at Medgar Evers College of the City University of New York -- were chosen for their long standing contributions to the international struggle for indigenous peoples' rights. The award ceremony will be held at the Church Center for the United Nations, 777 United Nations Plaza, 2nd Floor, at 44th St. and 1st Ave, on April 24th, 2008. The program will begin at 6:30pm. The ceremony also celebrates the Seventh Session of the UN Permanent Forum on Indigenous Issues and the anniversary of the historic passage of the United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples. Rosemary Richmond (Mohawk) was for most of the past twenty years the director of the American Indian Community House (AICH). During that period, she has guided the center into one of the largest and most important urban Indian Centers in the country, providing social service programs to the 40,000 member New York Native American community, housing award-winning theater and art programs, and being the cultural and political center of the vast urban Indian community. For the past two decades Elsa Stamatopoulou has championed the rights of Indigenous peoples, women, and minorities at the United Nations. At the UN she has also advocated a rights-based approach to development work. She has received the Eleanor Roosevelt Award from the Human Rights Center, and is the co-editor of The Universal Declaration of Human Rights: 50 Years and Beyond (Bayward, 1998). In addition to being professor of Comparative Literature and Interdisciplinary Studies at Medgar Evers College, Dr. Andrée-Nicola McLaughlin is award-winning scholar, poet, and author. She is the founding International Coordinator of the International Cross-Cultural Black Women’s Studies Institute, and is co-editer of a classic university text about Black women and their literature across cultures, Wild Women in the Whirlwind. The Flying Eagle Woman Fund for Peace, Justice, and Sovereignty, was created in 1999 to commemorate and further the work of Ingrid Washinawatok El-Issa (1957-1999). Ingrid, a member of the Menominee Nation, was among the most promising Native leaders of her generation. Activist, writer, spokeswoman, educator, and director of a philanthropic foundation, she devoted her life to the cause of indigenous peoples around the world. The Fund is a leading organization for international indigenous communities by working to build communities that are politically and economically self-reliant while striving to maintain and reinforce their traditional culture and ways of lif

• Release Date

  May 23, 2008

• Runtime

  47:38