Name:  Joyce W. Vincent
Contact Phone Number:  413-577-0970
E-mail Address:   dvincent@acad.umass.edu
Tribe:  Cherokee

Topics/Subjects:
Rebuilding respect for Indian territories as we stand together for Indian Rights, Internal issues of Indian Country, Dispelling Misconceptions and Stereotypes in Indian Country, Mascots, Native American Studies, Thinking about college, how to prepare, Native Americans and African Americans.

Will speak at:
Indian Organizations (for internal issues of Indian country, preparing for college)
High Schools (preparing for college, Mascot issue)
Colleges (Native Studies, What about affirming Indians in Affirmative Action?, Cross Cultural-Cross Politics in ALANA in higher education, Exposing paper genocide of Eastern Nations.)

Fee:
Donation to the Native American Student Support Services and/or Dr. Josephine White Eagle Cultural Center programs at UMASS Amherst. And transportation to and from the venue.

Will you travel:
Southern New England

Other Skills/Instruction:
Associate Director of the Native American Student Support Services and Dr. Josephine White Eagle Cultural Center at the University of Massachusetts Amherst where I also teach a course on Dispelling Misconceptions and thus Stereotypes of Indians, co-teaches Contemporary Issues in Native America: A focus on the Northeast, and Native Americans and African Americans.