[act-ma] 5/29 STEPHEN SILLIMAN - "Osama Bin Laden as Geronimo? Why the Words of War Matter"

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THE COMMUNITY CHURCH OF BOSTON
SUNDAY SPEAKERS FORUM presents...

Sunday, May 29, 2011
11:00am

Memorial Day Weekend
STEPHEN SILLIMAN
"Osama Bin Laden as Geronimo? Why the Words of War Matter"

Using the U.S. military's recent reference to Osama Bin Laden as Geronimo as
a focal point, Stephen will discuss the longstanding practice in the U.S.
Armed Forces of referring to enemy territory as "Indian Country."  He will
discuss the ways that such language reveals military agendas, impacts Native
American military personnel, and, most recently, retells Native American
history as acts of terrorism.

Stephen Silliman is Associate Professor of Anthropology at the University of
Massachusetts Boston, and he holds a Ph.D. in Anthropology from the
University of California at Berkeley.  He is primarily an archaeologist, but
his interests in the uses and abuses of the past in the present have led him
to work on current social justice issues regarding Native Americans.

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