And the Oh, uh, yeah. I promise I'm the last person you're going to have to listen to before you can listen to Roxanne.

Welcome to the Joel M Jones annual lecture in American Studies.

My name is David Korea, and as the chairperson of American Studies at UNN,

it's my honor to introduce the inaugural speaker in this event.

Before I do, let me start by briefly thanking the many alumni who made this possible. In particular, and I know a few of them have already been mentioned, but I want to mention them again.

Ruth Baines, Vera Norwood, Suzanne Owings, Shelby Smith-Seng-Klaire, and Diane Leighton who worked as a committee

over the last nine months meeting regularly to plan this event. This really could not have happened without them. In addition, I want to also thank Maria Wolf from the Alumni Association and Margaret Ortega from the UNM Foundation for their work and support in this effort.

And I also want to think our co-sponsoring departments, many thanks to the Department of Native American Studies,

the Department of Chicana and Chicano Studies and the Women Studies Program whose support

made this event tonight possible.

Tonight's speaker, Dr. Roxanne Dunbar Ortiz, is a great friend of the Department of American Studies.

This is not the first time we've invited her

to speak at you and that.

In fact, the last time we invited her to speak

it was in this very room, right, Roxanne?

Six or seven years ago, right?

And I hope it won't be the last.

She holds a PhD in history

from the University of California, Los Angeles.

She spent 30 years teaching at California State University East Bay where she

co-founded there the Department of Ethnic Studies. Before that she briefly

worked at UNM where she served as the visiting director of Native American

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