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| | The UCLA Indigenous Peoples’ Journal of Law, Culture & Resistance is accepting submissions for Volume 3, due to be published in 2006.
The UCLA Indigenous Peoples’ Journal of Law, Culture & Resistance (IPJLCR) is a journal at the University of California Los Angeles School of Law that is interdisciplinary in nature, consisting of scholarly articles, legal commentary, poetry, and artwork. We are soliciting scholarly articles and student comments about legal, political, and social issues important to Indigenous communities in the United States and throughout the world, as well as works by artists that relate to or comment on these issues. We also seek works on issues or aspects of life in Indigenous communities that are impacted by law, whether Indigenous laws or the laws of nation-states.
| | | | Elmer Guy has been named President of the Crownpoint Institute of Technology (CIT) in Crownpoint, NM. Mr. Guy has been acting president since February 2006. He was CIT’s Vice-President of Academic and Student Services from 2003-2006. Guy joined CIT as Dean of Instruction at CIT in 1999.
| | | | | | | | The Journal of American Indian Education, based at the Center for Indian Education, Arizona State University, is expanding its review panel to include Native academics and practitioners. For more, contact Denis Viri, Associate Director of JAIE at denis.viri@asu.edu or 480-965-4681. | | | | This fall's Journal of the Humanities will be devoted to American Indian studies (articles, interesting syllabi with explanatory memos, short fiction, poetry, book/film reviews, etc.). Email: jvilla@IUP.edu. * | | | | This is grant-funded position through July 2008, 3/4-time with additional teaching possible. Key responsibilities will be implementing local distribution, user-testing, evaluation, and revision of a K-12 diabetes based science curriculum including working cooperatively with teachers, administrators, and curriculum team members; teaching and observing in K-12 classrooms; data collection and analysis; use of digital media; participation in publication design; and oral and written communication for a variety of audiences. Master’s degree or at least 18 graduate credits in a related discipline and familiarity with Native American issues and culture, particularly as they relate to the educational process; inquiry learning instructional methods; K-12 teaching; and educational evaluation and measurement of learning outcomes desired. For details, contact Yvette Friisvall, Keweenaw Bay Ojibwa Community College, (906) 353-4600.
| | | | Members of Congress should take action on pending legislation that addresses the loss of Native languages across the country. This is the hope of Ryan Wilson (Oglala Lakota), president of the National Indian Education Association (NIEA), Tex G. Hall, chairperson of the Mandan-Hidatsa-Arikara Nation, and David M. Gipp, president of United Tribes Technical College. The three leaders believe that tribal languages are in jeopardy and will not survive without a concerted effort, including help from the Congress. For more on the story, contact: Ryan Wilson at (206) 265-3473.
| | | | On May 19, 2006, the US Department of Education published a notice in the Federal Register (71 FR 29130) inviting applications for new awards for fiscal year (FY) 2006 for the Strengthening institutions, American Indian Tribally Controlled Colleges and Universities and Alaska Native and Native Hawaiian-Serving Institutions programs. On page 29131 of that notice, DOE included charts listing the maximum award amounts, the estimated number of awards and the estimated average size of awards for the FY 2006 competitions for these programs. The charts incorrectly identified the Catalog of Federal Domestic Assistance (CFDA) number for the Strengthening Institutions program as 83.031A. The correct CFDA number is 84.031A. For more contact: Dr. Maria E. Carrington (202) 502-7777 or by e-mail: maria.Carrington@ed.gov or karen.Johnson@ed.gov. | | | | NAPT celebrates thirty years of pioneering Native broadcast programming and media development in conjunction with the American Indian Film Festival (AIFF) in San Francisco, November 11, 2006. On Saturday, November 11, from 4 to 6 p.m., a reception will be held at the Ninth Street Independent Film Center, co-hosted by the Center for Asian American Media. Festivities continue at the American Indian Film Festival's awards ceremony, 7 p.m., at the San Francisco Palace of Fine Arts. For more information visit www.nativetelecom.org | | | | NV1 Now Major Distributor of Native Radio Programs The voice of Native America has become a lot stronger with the July 1 launch of Native Voice One. Based in Albuquerque, NV1 is already streaming Native programming around the world 24/7 via its Web site, www.nv1.org, and distributing material to 35 American Indian radio stations across the United States and Canada, as well as introducing mainstream radio outlets to Native programming. See the full story go to www.indiancountry.com/content.cfm?id=1096413493. | | | | A new federal program, the President’s Higher Education Community Service Honor Roll, recognizes colleges and universities for their commitment to student service and the impact that their students have on their local communities. The program is co-sponsored by the Corporation for National and Community Service, the Department of Education, the Department of Housing and Urban Development, and the President’s Council on Service and Civic Participation. All colleges and universities, whose students have made meaningful contributions to community service, during the 2005-2006 academic year, are invited to apply for the Honor Roll online at www.nationalservice.gov/honorroll. | | | | Congress recently passed the Carl D. Perkins Career and Technical Education Improvement Act of 2006, extending important vocational and technical education programs through 2012. (The president is expected to sign the legislation into law soon.)
| | | | Indian Giving The Shakopee Mdewakanton Sioux Community has taken the tradition of giving to a new level, and in the past few years has given away more than $70 million. The list of tribes and people who have been helped is long. For more go to www.indiancountry.com/content.cfm?id=1096413499. | | | | In early September, witnesses before the U.S. House Education & the Workforce Committee highlighted the relationship between Native American languages and other fundamental elements of Native cultures, while expressing concern about the steady decline of Native languages throughout the country. Members of the Native American community and other educators testified in support of a variety of viable solutions to the downward trend including organized Native American language recovery and preservation efforts. For more, go to www.niea.org/media/broadcasts_detail_html.php?id=129. | | | | NIEA Reports: NIEA Board Member Quinton Roman Nose (Southern Cheyenne) Rolls Out Cheyenne and Arapaho Tribal College, the Newest Tribal College in Indian Country
The grand opening for Cheyenne and Arapaho Tribal College was held August 25, 2006 in Weatherford, Oklahoma on the Southwestern Oklahoma State University campus. A capacity crowd that included tribal elders, students, campus faculty, staff, Tribal leaders, and Cheyenne and Arapaho community members attended.
| | | | Meeting: 2007 American Indian Studies Association Conference: Decolonization of American Indians in Art, Politics and Nationhood Deadline: November 30, 2006 for conference from February 8 & 9, 2007 Location: Arizona State University, Tempe, AZ Contact: Carol Lujan, 480-965-6977 Description: This conference will focus on issues critical to the American Indian Studies Professorate. The keynote speaker is Simon Oriz. The organizers welcome proposals for paper presentations and workshops. Topics of interest include decolonization methodologies; resistance through art and poetry; technology and sovereignty; tribal government and empowerment; politics and resistance; AIS curriculum development; strategies to strengthen AIS programs/departments; tribal colleges/university partnerships; and university and tribal nation’s partnerships. Proposals must be sent by email to sharel.hailey@asu.edu or mailed as a hard copy with a diskette in MSWord. | | | |
NASA Educational Material: NASA’s Central Operation of Resources for Educators (CORE) is a worldwide distribution center for NASA's educational multimedia materials. There are some great free educator resources at this website with guides and descriptions. You can get publications, posters, videos, downlinks and lots more:
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See AIHEC Documents for flyer, entitled "TCD flyer" on a workshop taking place August 15-18, 2005.
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The North Central Regional Center for Rural Development (NCRCRD), representing an alliance of Midwestern universities and AIHEC are pleased to announce the Community Development Online Master's Degree Program with an emphasis in Native American communities. The Working with Native Communities specialization track is designed for students working within or in partnership with Native communities. This track helps students understand the unique characteristics of Native communities, culture and governance, which affect community development. This track incorporates a variety of methods for understanding and working in Native communities, including historical analysis, case studies, asset-based approaches, talking circles, narratives, GIS and other mapping techniques, and Appreciative Inquiry. Students will use team learning and cross-cultural comparisons throughout the track. Topics covered in one or more courses include partnerships within Native communities, effective community development strategies within Native communities, and wellness approaches to community economic development. Special topics may include youth, natural resources, and health. The core courses include the principles and strategies of community change, community organizing, community analysis, natural resource management, and economic policy and analysis. Applications for enrollment are now being accepted for the Fall 2005 semester. For more information, see the attached brochure and contact John Phillips, USDA/AIHEC, 202-720-4366, .
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BISMARCK (UTN) – When it comes to protecting tribal cultural resources against the encroachments of mainstream society, the idea for tribes should be to stick together. But it’s not easy when they’re located hundreds of miles apart and threats are coming from all over.
That’s why cultural resource protectors from tribes in the region plan to come together and find strength in numbers.
“We’re taking a huge step here,” said Tim Mentz, Tribal Historic Preservation Officer (THPO) for the Standing Rock Sioux Tribe. “We’re going to organize. It’s just a matter of putting it together.”
Mentz and representatives of other tribes in the Great Plains BIA Region plan to meet October 24-26 at United Tribes Technical College in Bismarck and form an organization of tribal historic preservation offices.
At a visioning session in September, Mentz identified a multitude of laws, regulations, and layers of government that influence how effective tribes can be in protecting graves, sacred sites, and other cultural resources. Like the states, tribes have enforcement powers when treaty rights, land claims and takings, and legislation affect a tribe’s cultural and historic resources.
Protections exist in laws like the National Historic Preservation Act and the Native American Graves Protection and Repatriation Act but tribes are left to sort out how use them. Frequently it means dealing with a tangle of government agencies ranging from some of the largest bureaucracies in Federal Government, to the states on down to cities and counties.
“We should require county governments to submit reports because they tend to sneak things through, especially on roads projects,” said Faith Spotted Eagle, cultural adviser with the Yankton Sioux Tribe. “There’s an erosion of authority when they don’t obey tribal regulations. Often they just assume jurisdiction within reservation boundaries and we don’t know about it.”
Until now, it’s mostly been a strategy of reaction. Of the 16 tribes in the Great Plains BIA Region only five have tribal historic preservation offices: Standing Rock, Sisseton Wahpeton, Turtle Mountain, Cheyenne River and Rosebud. Some of the other 11 have appointed a tribal member to shoulder the responsibilities; others have yet to address the need.
“As tribes we’re not the same now as when we treatied with the Federal government,” said Dennis Gill Sr., a cultural adviser with the Sisseton-Wahpeton Oyate. “They’re very effective at separating us and taking us on individually. We need to come together.”
Federal budget reductions and frequent proposals for changes in regulatory law have sent the distressing signal that jurisdiction for many cultural preservation issues may become a responsibility of the states.
“It would mean control over archaeological sites and the elimination of tribal historic preservation officers,” said Mentz. “Our interests won’t be maintained by the states. Tribes are in for some major hits if they’re not prepared to respond.”
The main purpose of the meeting in Bismarck will be to organize the regional group, which is using the temporary name: Great Plains Tribal Historic/Cultural Resources Commission. All tribes in the region are asked to send representatives.
The meeting will also consider how tribes should respond to several pending cultural resource issues, including a policy by the national Advisory Council on Historic Preservation about the treatment of human remains, requests for locating cell-phone towers, a Federal Environmental Impact Statement regarding water in the Missouri River, a uniform cultural resource code, and the need for archaeological services at the tribal level.
At present there is a national association of THPOs but no such regional organization. Four of the five certified THPOs in the region were present at the visioning meeting, and seven tribes were represented.
“We’re going to prove we can do this,” said Mentz. “We’ll show how our land, water and cultural resources are important to us as a people.”For more information contact Mentz, Standing Rock Tribal Historic Preservation Office, 701-854-7201, or .
| | | | The NCAI Policy Research Center, formed in 2004, is a "think tank" focused solely on issues facing tribal communities. Developed under an advisory group of tribal leaders, this tribally driven consortium of existing research bodies and primary researchers will be equipped to gather and assess data on conditions and trends in Indian Country and will serve to support and inform the policy development efforts of tribal leaders, tribal organizations, Congress, and the Administration with objective data and analysis. The NCAI website features a number of tools tribal leaders can use to gather information collected from the Center's Tribal Leader/Scholar Forums, think tank discussions and compiled research. It will also introduce "The Talking Circle," a first-ever forum for online discussion about research and data collection in and with tribal communities. "This website is an interactive resource for tribal communities seeking to collect data and conduct and control research as well as for scholars who are interested in working in partnership with tribal communities to conduct research," said NCAI Policy Research Center Director Sarah Hicks. "It provides access to data, a place to discuss research, and tools to build tribal research capacity." To view NCAI’s website, go to www.ncaiprc.org. | | | | Columbia’s American Indian studies program comes decades after Arizona State University, Oklahoma State University and others formed similar programs. The State University of New York at Buffalo grants a doctorate in the discipline, and a half-dozen other colleges and universities offer master’s degrees. Dartmouth College and Cornell University are the other two Ivy League institutions that offer American Indian studies. “We are trying to bring this to the Ivy League,” says Dr. Evan Haefeli, a member of the steering committee charged with developing the academic component of the program. For more on the story, see: www.diverseeducation.com/artman/publish/article_6600.shtml. | | | | The 2005 ACS data provide key socioeconomic and housing characteristics for about 200 selected population groups at the national and state levels. Some highlights from the ACS survey regarding the American Indian and Alaska Native population alone include:
• The median age for American Indian and Alaska Natives was 31.9 years.
• Married-couple families comprised about 40 percent of American Indian and Alaska Native households. About 20 percent of households were maintained by a woman, with no husband present, and in 25 percent, the householder lived alone.
• About 44,000 American Indian and Alaska Native women between the ages of 15 and 50 gave birth in the year prior to the survey — 48 percent of those were married.
• About 26 percent of the American Indian and Alaska Native household population five years and over spoke a language other than English at home.
• Among American Indian and Alaska Natives age 25 and over, 76 percent were at least high school graduates and about 14 percent had a bachelor’s degree or higher.
For more information on how your community compares with the nation, a state or another city, county or congressional district, visit American Fact Finder at www.census.gov. | | | | | | | | Student activists — some with “drowning in debt” T-shirts — a few weeks ago urged the U.S. Department of Education to adopt a plan to make student loans more manageable at the fourth public hearing of The National Commission on the Future of Higher Education. For more on the story, go to www.diverseeducation.com/artman/publish/article_6631.shtml. | | | | Two journal articles of interest are posted on the US Department of Education’s Web Page:
• Pavel, M., Inglebret, E., & Banks, S. (2001). Tribal Colleges and Universities in an Era of Dynamic Development. Peabody Journal of Education 76(1), 50-72.
• Rousey, A., & Longie, E. (2001). The Tribal College as Family Support System. American Behavioral Scientist 44(9), 1492-1504.
| | | | Call for Papers Meeting: Center for Healthy Communities: Community Based Cancer Control Seminar for American Indian and Alaska Native Community Health Advocates Deadline: January 5, 2007 for meeting March 18-23, 2007 Location: Seattle, WA Contact: Keely Moriarty, 503-494-1126 or moriarty@ohsu.eduDescription: This is a capacity-building course designed for community people with an interest in cancer prevention and control. The cost of travel, hotel, meals, and all course materials is covered for participants. | | | |
The University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign is seeking a Director for the Native American House and American Indian Studies Program who is committed to advancing research and scholarship focused upon American Indian Studies in a transnational context. The Native American House and American Indian Studies Program are interdisciplinary programs of teaching, research, cultural programming, and student support providing University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign students an opportunity to critically engage with the epistemologies and world views of American Indian communities and nations. The Program includes an accomplished faculty, excellent support staff, a dynamic curriculum that incorporates a range of theories, methodologies, and teaching approaches, a dedication to student success, and support for community outreach activities.
The Director stimulates research, supervises the administrative office of the programs, and promotes the development of American Indian Studies curricula. The Director also facilitates interdisciplinary communication and scholarship among the faculty. The Director is expected to represent and advance the interests of the Program on campus and in the community, as well as to cultivate external funding resources. The Director reports to the Dean of the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences and will hold a full-time tenured appointment in the program and in an appropriate disciplinary unit.
The successful candidate will have a national and/or international scholarly standing in American Indian Studies, preferably in a transnational context; a demonstrated commitment to interdisciplinary scholarship; administrative experience; a Ph.D. or comparable terminal degree, and a strong record of distinguished teaching; a commitment to racial and gender diversity; and the ability to work closely with other interdisciplinary units on campus, including the ethnic studies programs. Salary is negotiable. The preferred starting date is on or before August 16, 2007.
Candidates should supply a letter of application, current curriculum vitae, samples of scholarly writing, and the names and addresses of at least three professional references. Full consideration will be given to applications and nominations received by January 15, 2007. Send nominations, applications, and inquiries to:
Robyn Camp Search Committee/Director, NAH/AIS 807 S. Wright, Suite 320 Champaign, IL 61820 rcamp@uiuc.edu217/244-9010 The UIUC is an Affirmative Action/Equal Opportunity Employer
| | | | The LEAD-21 (Leadership for the 21st Century) leadership development program for the land grant system is accepting applications for its 2007-2008 class. Applicants from the 1994 are eligible for a scholarship of 50 percent of the $8,000 tuition. Applications are due January 5, 2007. For more information, see www.fanning.uga.edu/programs/LEAD21/index.html. | | | | In mid-December, the New Mexico Congressional Delegation announced that President Bush has signed into law the Esther Martinez Native Languages Preservation Act. The new law helps prevent the loss of an important part of New Mexico's heritage, the Native American languages that are rapidly disappearing. The bill, written and introduced by Congresswoman Heather Wilson in February, was passed by the House in September and the Senate earlier this month with the support of the entire New Mexico delegation. For more, go to niea.org.
| | | | United Tribes Technical College honored 26 graduates during a ceremony December 15 at the college in Bismarck. Twenty-one had completed studies earning Associate of Applied Science Degrees. Five were awarded certificates of completion.
| | | | Ms. Patti Petite is the new President of Fond du Lac Tribal College. We welcome Patti to the circle of presidents and wish her well in the development of Fond du Lac Tribal College.
| | | | Ms. Diana Canku is the new President of Sisseton Wahpeton College. We congratulate Diana on her appointment and welcome her to the circle of presidents.
| | | | Swisher retired in December after serving seven years as the President of Haskell Indian Nations University. We wish Dr. Swisher well upon entering this new phase of her life’s journey.
| | | | Meeting: Community Based Cancer Control Seminar for American Indian and Alaska Native Community Health Advocates Deadline: January 5, 2007 for meeting March 18-23, 2007 Location: Seattle, WA Contact: Keely Moriarty, 503-494-1126 or moriarty@ohsu.eduDescription: This is a capacity-building course designed for community people with an interest in cancer prevention and control. The cost of travel, hotel, meals, and all course materials is covered for participants. | | | | Meeting: The NCAI Policy Research Center 2nd Annual Tribal Leader/Scholar Forum Deadline: January 26, 2007 for meeting to be held sometime in June 2007 Location: Anchorage, AK Link: www.ncaiprc.org/index.php?todo=menu&which=37 Description: Presentations should be focused on tribal policy and practice implications. Special Message from AIHEC President, Cheryl Crazy Bull: TCU Faculty: Please consider applying for this opportunity to present! At last year’s conference, TCU representation was very low. TCU scholarship must be part of this forum and our representation should be strong! | |
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