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Words and Reflections from the Commission of Decolonization

A Conversation with Melvin Won Pat-Borja

Saturday, Februray 13, 2021 | 11:00 AM - 12:30 PM CHST

**This online event will be conducted via Zoom and streamed on Facebook Live. We are accepting up to 100 attendees to join us on Zoom. Register today!**

Join us for our second webinar installment, Words & Reflections From the Commission on Decolonization with Melvin Won Pat-Borja, highlighting the history of the Commission's establishment and its current work with the community. The Chairwoman of the Commission Governor Lou Leon Guerrero will give a special address. This conversation will be facilitated by community advocate and legislative policy analyst Selina Onedera-Salas, and will also include a spoken word piece by Nichole Quintanilla.

Unincorporated: Voting, Voices and Visions para Guåhan is a five-part webinar series that will explore indigenous perspectives, civic engagement and community responses to voting, political status and decolonization. The series will culminate in a digital magazine featuring CHamoru stories, experiences, and perspectives on civic engagement in relation to voting rights, democracy, decolonization, self-determination and Guåhan's political status.

Unincorporated: Voting, Voices and Visions para Guåhan is made possible with funding support from The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation in partnership with the Federation of State Humanities Councils. Any views expressed in this webinar series and magazine project do not necessarily represent those of the National Endowment for the Humanities, The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, the Federation of State Humanities Councils, or Humanities Guåhan.

To learn more about this project, visit www.humanitiesguahan.org.

To view this event Live on Facebook, visit https://www.facebook.com/humanitiesguahan

For more information, please contact Humanities Guåhan at 671-472-4461 or info@humanitiesguahan.org.