University Place

Ada Deer: Making a Difference

Special | 55m 35s  | Video has closed captioning.

Ada Deer, author of “Making a Difference: My Fight for Native Rights and Social Justice,” Theda Perdue, a professor emerita from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, and Larry Nesper, the director of American Indian Studies at UW-Madison, discuss Deer’s life from the Menominee Reservation to serving as the assistant secretary of Indian Affairs for the U.S. Department of the Interior.

Aired: 11/19/19

Rating: TV-G

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