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David Shane Lowry an anthropologist, enrolled member of the Lumbee Tribe of North Carolina and son of a UAW member - embarks on a conversation about the role of organized labor within the theft of American Indian (Native American) land and suppression of American Indian peoples in the United States. Pulling from ideas in his upcoming book Lumbee Pipelines (University of Nebraska Press), and based in stories of his family living within and alongside the politics and economics of labor organization, Dr. Lowry will invite us into a conversation about what contemporary organized labor (what is often labeled "the union" or "local") should do - and cannot do - to reverse states of colonial occupation in the United States and de-mattering of American Indian peoples. Ultimately, he will offer a view of unionization as a medium through which American Indian Peoples engineer their safety within an otherwise genocidal, anti-Indigenous American economy.David grew up in the Lumbee community in Robeson County, North Carolina (after his father retired from the Chrysler Corporation in St. Louis). With degrees from MIT and University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill, he has taught at Chicago Medical School, MIT, Biola University, and Brandeis University. David’s first book, Lumbee Pipelines: American Indian movement in the residue of settler colonialism, will be available in August of 2025 with University of Nebraska Press. He is beginning a second book with MIT Press titled Indigenous MIT: why we must save science and technology from American genocide. David's scholarship has been funded by the National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellowship (NSF GRF) and NSF RAPID.
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There is street parking on Falmouth St and from 6:00pm on it is free on both sides. If street parking is full, parking is available in the Bedford Street Parking Garage. Parking in most lots’ costs $4 an hour; scan the QR code at the lot to pay for parking.
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35 Bedford St, Portland, ME 04101-1929, United States
