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Nick Greven, Dr. Joe Varga, Dr. Stephanie Kane, and Heather Williams sit and discuss.
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IU’s FNECC hosts in-depth discussion about No Dakota Access Pipeline movement

By: Aggrey Sam

Nick Greven, Dr. Joe Varga, and Dr. Stephanie Kane sit and discuss.
 Left to right: Nick Greven, Dr. Joe Varga, Dr. Stephanie Kane, and Heather Williams

Members of the Indiana University community and Bloomington residents alike gathered at IU’s First Nations Educational and Cultural Center (FNECC) to discuss the No Dakota Access Pipeline (NoDAPL) movement Tuesday evening. Nicholas Belle, director of the FNECC, a unit of the Office of the Vice President for Diversity, Equity, and Multicultural Affairs (OVPDEMA), explained the significance of the talk.

“We wanted to host a discussion at the FNECC to talk about all that’s happening at the Standing Rock Sioux reservation in North Dakota. The protests, the efforts of the water protectors, and their interactions with the military and police are really at the forefront of what’s going on in contemporary Native communities,” said Belle.

“Another part of this is it’s not being covered in mainstream media. As we’re talking to people on campus and in the community, we realize that there aren’t a lot of people who know about what’s going on, unless they’re actually looking for it or are already interested in the subject.”

IU freshmen Natalia Kuzbiel, Maggie Gates, Rachel Doehla, Arianne Kelley, and Dylan Williams take part in a discussion Tuesday night at the First Nations Educational and Cultural Center.

“In meeting with the mission of the FNECC and IU to create educational opportunities outside of the classroom, we wanted to invite several people in who can talk about broad and specific aspects of what’s going on with the No Dakota Access Pipeline movement,” continued Belle. “We’ve invited people from the IU and Bloomington communities, Indianapolis, and throughout the state in an effort to connect all the different people who are in support of the movement and working in Native communities, to educate people wo don’t know about it yet.”

Moderated by the FNECC’s Heather Williams, panelists included: Dr. Joe Varga, an IU Labor Studies professor with experience in labor disputes; Dr. Stephanie Kane, an anthropologist who recently worked on a project involving water rights just over the U.S.-Canada border from the Standing Rock reservation; and Nick Greven, an IU graduate student in Latin American and Caribbean Studies who focused on nonviolent direct action.

While the movement has been overshadowed by events such as the ongoing Presidential election campaign, it has gained steady momentum as various celebrities have started to lend their support and created awareness of the issues. Sitting in the audience at Tuesday’s FNECC discussion were five IU freshmen—Natalia Kuzbiel, Maggie Gates, Rachel Doehla, Arianne Kelley, and Dylan Williams—who traveled to North Dakota and volunteered at the protests.

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