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An Indigenous Geography Workshop, led by Douglas Herman will be held from 1 to 4 p.m. on Monday, Sept. 16,  in the Mann Assembly Room, 103 Paterno Library. Herman, a senior geographer at the Smithsonian Institution’s National Museum of the American Indian, will introduce participants to a novel grid he developed to document, through the voices of local residents, the important elements of life in an indigenous community. He created the grid during his research in the Pacific, described at <a href="http://www.pacificworlds.com/" style="margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;outline:none;vertical-align:baseline;font:inherit;color:rgb(53,128,209);text-decoration:none">www.pacificworlds.com</a>, and he has used it with classes he teaches at Towson University. In the workshop, Herman will illustrate how the indigenous geographic technique can be employed to compare and contrast communities in different regions of the world.</p>
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