Fighting the Telescope:

The Indigenous Perspective on Displacement and Sacred Ground

Presenter: Perla Trujillo

Presenter Status: Undergraduate student

Academic Year: 20-21

Semester: Fall

Faculty Mentor: Beth Ann Turner

Department: Native American Studies

Funding Source/Sponsor: SYRCE Symposium

Screenshot URL: https://drive.google.com/uc?id=1oECUecaNGZRtWEdlhQ9mcZjeyq5VX6Gx

Abstract:
This presentation is on the injustice that native peoples have had to face in order to keep sacred grounds and traditions safe from construction and destruction from others. As innovational as it may sound to build things such as a telescope, why must it be on grounds that matter to a community on a much greater scale? Why can they not respect the generational wealth within the land over the need to advance their own agendas?