Thursday, April 28, 12:30-2:00pm in Chimney Rock in the City Union
Please join Indigenous Studies for a conversation over lunch with Ute author, scholar, elder, environmental activist, and spiritual leader Forrest Cuch. He will be speaking about navigating academic and other predominantly white spaces as an Indigenous person, and there will be plenty of time for Q&A
We also will have boxed lunches for about 25.
Born and raised on the Uintah and Ouray Ute Indian Reservation in northeastern Utah, Forrest Cuch graduated from Westminster College with a Bachelor of Arts Degree in the Behavioral Sciences. During his four-decade long career, Cuch has served in leadership roles at the tribal, state, and international non-profit levels: from education director for the Ute Indian Tribe and CEO for the Ute Tribe’s business enterprises, to executive director of the Utah Division of Indian Affairs and co-founder of Rising American Indian Nations (RAIN), an Indian operated non-profit organization established to empower American Indian people. Cuch is also the editor of the definitive book on Native Americans in Utah, A History of Utah’s American Indians (Utah State University Press, 2000).
Throughout his career, Cuch has worked to call attention to the ancient presence of American Indian people in the intermountain West and around the country to address the many critical issues facing all American Indians. Cuch currently is engaged in working with spiritual leaders through the Western Hemisphere to usher in the new shift in feminine conscious known of as the New Earth and calling attention to Climate Change and Harm to Mother Earth. As part of that work, Cuch recently joined the Jane Goodall Legacy Foundation’s “Council for Hope,” a group of leaders from the fields of conservation, science, business, government, media and the arts (including CEOs of major corporations, international environmental trusts, and Nobel Prize laureates).