ORONO — Wabanaki reconciliation will be the focus of a keynote address at the annual Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Breakfast on Monday, Jan. 19, sponsored by the Greater Bangor Area NAACP and the University of Maine.
Doors open at 8 a.m. in UMaine’s Wells Conference Center. Tickets are $20; $12.50 for children 12 and younger; free for students with a MaineCard. Tickets can be purchased at the door or in advance. Early ticket purchase is recommended by visiting umaine.edu/multicultural. For ticket information or to request a disability accommodation, call 207-581-4095.
The breakfast will open with welcoming remarks by Michael Alpert, president of the Greater Bangor Area NAACP; UMaine President Susan Hunter; and UMaine Vice President for Student Life and Dean of Students Robert Dana.
Keynote speakers Esther Attean and Denise Altvater will speak on “Truth, Healing and Change: Maine-Wabanaki Reconciliation.” Attean and Altvater are the advisers to the Maine Wabanaki-State Child Welfare Truth & Reconciliation Commission.
Other community leaders expected to participate include gkisedtanmoogk, a commissioner with the Maine Wabanaki-State Child Welfare Truth & Reconciliation Commission; and Mother Marguerite A.H. Steadman of St. John’s Episcopal Church, Bangor.
For more information, call 207-581-1406.
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