From the press release (H/T Native Americans @ UMich):

Charlotte Black Elk will be speaking at Adrian College this Fri 9/16 at 6pm
ADRIAN, MI – Adrian College is honored to host guest speaker Charlotte Black Elk during a unique Constitution Day event on Friday, September 16, 2011 at 6:00 pm on the first floor of Caine Student Center at Adrian College. All are invited as Black Elk delivers an address titled “What the Constitution Means to the American Indian,” focusing on religious freedom and Indian self-determination.

“Ms. Black Elk is a hypnotically eloquent speaker on the history of U.S-Indian relations,” stated Professor Nathan Goetting, Director of the Romney Institute. “She explains this history with words that don’t just penetrate. They have the power to shake and transform the consciousness of those who hear them.”

Goetting continued, “It is a history she has learned because it is an experience she has lived. It is a quintessentially American history. One all of us should hear.”

Ms. Black Elk resides on Pine Ridge Indian Reservation in South Dakota and is a member of the Oglala Sioux Tribe. She is an expert on American Indian religious and cultural traditions and has been featured in a number of acclaimed PBS documentaries, including Ric Burns’ The Way West. Her great-grandfather, Nicholas Black Elk, is the author of “Black Elk Speaks,” which has been hailed as a masterpiece of world literature and is taught in classrooms around the world.

Black Elk will be welcomed to campus by the Leh-Nah-Weh Native American singers and drummers before her presentation. This event is open to the public and is sponsored by The George Romney Institute for Law and Public Policy, The Office for Multicultural Affairs and the Institute for Ethics at Adrian College. For additional information please contact Prof. Nathan Goetting at 517-265-5161 ext 3261 or Prof. Fritz Detwiler at 517-265-5161 ext 5025.