Discussion with VT’s Native Students

On Tuesday, April 2^nd,Visiting scholar Yunuen Torres Ascencio presented her film and documentary Tsihueri, el que fue valiente [Tsihueri, the one who was brave] about her family after the assassination of her brother, to Native undergraduate and graduate students in the Ati: Wa:oki Indigenous Community Center (“meeting house” in the Tutelo language). The film was followed by a talk and discussion with the students. During this visit, Yunuen spoke Spanish while VT graduate student Gala Lucia Gonzalez Barrios, worked as her “angel,” helping with interpretations.

About

The Abya Yala Pluriversity was launched in the first week of April 2024, with the Abya Yala Pluriversity Week in the Department of Science, Technology, and Society at Virginia Tech, in the lands of Tutelo and Monacan people, with a series of events around the visit of Yunuen Torres Ascencio, from where we call today Cherán, México.

Sponsorship

This initiative has received the support of the Social Science Research Council Just Tech Fellowship, with funds of the Ford Foundation, MacArthur Foundation, Surdna Foundation, and Democracy Fund.

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