Gene D. Thin Elk, one of the nation’s leading authorities on treatment for alcoholism, will present a lecture on the “Red Road Approach to Wellness and Healing” 4:30 p.m. Nov. 30 in Brown Lounge.
The Red Road approach, created by Thin Elk, uses Native American traditions and values as part of a drug and alcohol rehabilitation program.
Thin Elk, a Native American Counselor/Instructor at the University of South Dakota, is listed among Time Magazine’s “100 People of the Year,” received the Distinguished Service Award from the state of South Dakota, and was named one of the “100 New American Heroes” by Newsweek Magazine.
The lecture, which is free and open to the public, is sponsored by the Kathryn M. Buder Center for American Indian Studies at the George Warren Brown School of Social Work and the American Indian Student Association.
For more information call 314-935-4510.