Professor Rosalyn LaPier will give a keynote talk at this year's events for Indigenous People's Day.
Anti-trans Policies Jeopardize Indigenous Peoples’ Rights & Religious Expression
Dr. Rosalyn LaPier
Blackfeet Tribe of Montana/Métis
She/They
Professor, Department of History, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
LGBTQ+ people,” today, “and in particular transgender people, have been the target" of President Trump’s anti-transgender agenda, according to the Human Rights Campaign. Rosalyn will discuss how Indigenous people are threatened by anti-trans policies, which will result in individual suffering and the diminishing of Indigenous peoples’ rights to practice their own religions.
About the speaker: Rosalyn is an award-winning Indigenous writer, environmental historian, and ethnobotanist. They work within Indigenous communities to revitalize traditional ecological knowledge (TEK) and to strengthen public policy for Indigenous languages. They are the author of two books including Invisible Reality: Storytellers, Storytakers and the Supernatural World of the Blackfeet, produced two Blackfeet language lexicons, and written dozens of articles and commentaries. Rosalyn is an enrolled member of the Blackfeet Tribe of Montana and Métis.