Way of the Warrior
Date: Friday, November 6th, 4:00pm
        Carlson Theater

Patty Loew, Ph.D., is an associate professor in the Department of Life Science Communication at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, a producer for WHA-TV (PBS) and co-host of In Wisconsin, a weekly news and public affairs program that airs statewide on Wisconsin Public Television. 

She is the author of Indian Nations of Wisconsin: Histories of Endurance and Renewal and Native People of Wisconsin, a middle school social studies text that is used by 15,000 Wisconsin school children. She has authored dozens of scholarly and general interest articles on Native topics. 

Her latest documentary, Way of the Warrior, explores the contributions of Native American veterans in the 20^th century and was shown nationally on PBS in November 2007.  In 2008, it received the prestigious Unity Award from the Radio and Television News Directors Association. Other award-winning television documentaries, including No Word for Goodbye, Spring of Discontent, Throwaway Future, and Nation Within a Nation, have appeared on commercial and public television stations throughout the country.  Loew is an enrolled member of the Bad River Band of Lake Superior Ojibwe.

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