The Akwe:kon Press and Native Americas journal, part of the American Indian Program at Cornell University, will hold a "Global Warming/Climate Change" panel discussion on campus Feb. 25 and 26. This event is free and open to the public.

Guest speakers will include Native American elder Oren Lyons, an Onondaga faithkeeper who served on the 1998 Native Peoples/Native Homelands Climate Change Workshop in Albuquerque, N.M.; John C. Mohawk, member of the Seneca Nation and a professor of American studies at the State University of New York at Buffalo; Nancy Maynard, a program director with the NASA Goddard Space Flight Center; Robert Gough, an attorney for the Rosebud Sioux Tribe Utility Commissionin South Dakota (S.D.); and Tim Johnson, from the Smithsonian's National Museum of the American Indian in Washington, D.C.

The Friday, Feb. 25, program begins at 7:30 p.m. in the Townhouse Community Center on Jessup Road, across from the Robert Purcell Community Center on Cornell's North Campus. It will provide an overview of global warming and climate change issues viewed from both a Native American and a NASA perspective.

The Saturday, Feb. 26, session begins at 10 a.m. on the first floor of the Robert Purcell Community Center. Panelists will discuss a range of themes, including Native prophecy, Native responses and solutions to help mitigate climate change and maintain balance with the Earth, and NASA collaborations with Native communities.

These events are part of a partnership between NASA and Akwe:kon Press that led to the publication of Native Americas' January double issue, titled "Global Warming, Climate Change and Native Lands." Sponsored by a $61,000 grant from NASA's office of Earth Science Enterprises, the double issue was the result of an unprecedented effort by NASA to seek Native American perspectives on the impact of climate change in the United States. For more information, call Leslie Logan or Mar Perez at (607) 255-4308, or contact the Native Americas web site at http://www.nativeamericas.net.