EVENTS OF THE WINTER TERM, 2004

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*COMMITTEE FOR INSTITUTIONAL COOPERATION/ AMERICAN INDIAN STUDIES FIFTH ANNUAL CONFERENCE AND COMPETITION,

Friday, April 16 and Saturday, April 17, Michigan League, all day. 

Graduate Students from CIC institutions present their research in Native American Studies.

Details at top left of NAS home page .

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*Indigenous Peoples in International Fora

Welcome and Introduction (8:45-9:00 a.m.)

 

Opening Remarks (9:00 a.m.)

• Yuji Iwasawa, UN Permanent Forum for Indigenous Issues; University of Tokyo Faculty of Law and Department of Advanced Social and International Studies

Panel I: Indigenous Peoples in International Human Rights Law (9:30-11:30 a.m.)

• Katherine Gorove, Office of the Legal Adviser, U.S. State Department
• Patrick Macklem, University of Toronto Faculty of Law
• Lawrence Rosen, Columbia Law School; Department of Anthropology and Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs, Princeton University
• Dinah Shelton, University of Notre Dame Law School
• Siegfried Wiessner, St. Thomas School of Law and Human Rights Institute
• [Moderator] A.W. Brian Simpson, University of Michigan Law School

 

Panel II: Indigenous Litigation Strategies in Tribal & International Courts (11:40-1:00 p.m.)

• Steven R. Donziger, Law Offices of Steven R. Donziger
• Barbara Olshansky, Center for Constitutional Rights
• Steven Tullberg, Indian Law Resource Center
• Christine Zuni Cruz, University of New Mexico Law School; Associate Justice, Isleta Appellate Court
• [Moderator] Riyaz Kanji, Kanji & Katzen LLP

 

Panel III: Indigenous Peoples in Trade & Environmental Fora (3:30-5:00 p.m.)

• Gavin Clarkson, University of Michigan Law School
• Kirsty Gover, Institute for International Law and Justice, New York University
• Jon Van Dyke, William S. Richardson School of Law, University of Hawai'i School of Law
• Eric Wilson, Office of American Indian Trust, U.S. Department of the Interior
• [Moderator] Donald Laverdure, Detroit College of Law, Michigan State University; Justice, Crow Appellate Court

 

Closing Remarks (5:00 p.m.)

• Fortunato Turpo Choquehuanca, UN Permanent Forum for Indigenous Issues; formerly Dean of the Law School and President, The Andean University, Peru

 

Weekend Activities

• 32nd Annual Ann Arbor Dance for Mother Earth Pow Wow

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*FEMINIST PERSPECTIVES ON AFRICAN AMERICAN AND NATIVE AMERICAN REPARATIONS: OPEN FORUM

Friday, March 19, 7:00-9:30 pm., Angell Hall Auditorium B

Speakers:  Adjoa Aiyetoro, N'Cobra; Patricia Allard, N'Cobra; Willetta Dolphus (Lakota), Boarding School Healing Project; Sarah Deer (Muscogee), Tribal Law and Policy Institute;  Alisa Bierria, Communities against Rape and Abuse, Andrea Smith (Cherokee), University of Michigan

Moderator: Andrea Ritchie, INCITE! Women of Color against Violence

for more information: Andrea Smith, 734-231-1845 tsalagi@umich.edu

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*SYMPOSIUM: "COVERING THE U.S. EMPIRE" January 7-10, 2004

University of Michigan, Michigan League

This extensive three-day conference featured the following panels on indigenous issues:

–Friday 9 January

Michigan League, Hussey Room

1:15-3:00pm

DEPLOYMENT OF INDIGENOUS PEOPLES

Moderator: Gregory Dowd (American Culture & History)

-Tom Holm (American Indian Studies, University of Arizona)

Why Do They Sign Up? Native American Participation in the U.S. Armed Forces

-Christine Delisle (History & Women's Studies)

Interpellating the Native in Guam: Other Forms of Recruitment into Military Discourse

-Annalissa Herbert (American Culture)

Uncle Sam In Drag: Masculinist Discourse in Political Cartoons of the Philippine-American War, 1898-1902

-James Riding In (American Indian Studies, Arizona State University) U.S. Imperialism, Colonialism, and the Pawnee Scouts: A Critical Historical Assessment

--Saturday 10 January

Michigan league, Koessler room

9:30-11:15am

GENDER, INDIGENOUS PEOPLES, AND COLONIALISM

Commentator: Andrea Smith (American Culture & Women's Studies)

-Nadine Naber (American Culture & Women's Studies)

A Place from which to Shout! Transnational Feminist Practices--Palestine, Iraq, the U.S.

-Thomas Abowd (Anthropology, Wayne State University)

Policing Palestine: The Criminalization of Arab Male Youth and the Discourse of Terror

-Sheila Contreras (Writing, Rhetoric, and American Cultures, Michigan State

University) The Archaeology of the Borderlands: Anthropology, Nationalism and Gloria Anzaldúa's 'mestiza consciousness'

--Saturday 10 January

Michigan League, Hussey Room

1:15-3:00pm

LANDSCAPES AND MILITARIZATION

-Chair & Moderator: Maria Montoya (History & Latina/o Studies)

-Leslie Pincus (History)

Okinawa: Under Siege

-Marie Cruz (History)

Imaginings of (De)militarized Landscapes: The Case of Vieques, Puerto Rico

-Najeeb Jan (History & Near Eastern Studies/Horace H. Rackham School of Graduate

Studies) The Empire's Ulama: Power, Politics and Unapologetic Islam

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EVENTS OF THE FALL TERM, 2003

* LECTURE: Angela Cavender Wilson, September 5

WALKING FOR JUSTICE: THE 1862 DAKOTA DEATH MARCHES AND THE POLITICS OF MEMORY

Angela Wilson is Assistant Professor of History at Arizona State University. Cornell University, Ph.D. Author of important scholarly articles on oral traditions, Dakota histories, the construction of historical thought, and historians’’ obligations to both Indians and a larger readership. She is co-editor, with Devon Mihesuah, of Indigenizing the Academy: Native Academics Sharpening the Edge (Lincoln, University of Nebraska Press, forthcoming). She serves on the managing board of H-Amindian.

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*LECTURE: Scott Sandage, October 29

HALF-BREED CREEK: A TALL TALE OF RACE IN AMERICA, 1760-1941

In this talk, Professor Sandage (Carnegie Mellon Univeristy), gave an overview of a new book project, a study of mixed-race identity, tracing the racial shape-shifting of Nebraska folk hero of French-Omaha parents, whose disputed land claims on the "Half-Breed Tract" resulted in an 1890's court battle that weighed cultural against biological ideas of race.

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*FILM SCREENING: Valerie Red-Horse, November 11

TRUE WHISPERS: THE STORY OF THE NAVAJO CODE-TALKERS

Filmmaker Valerie Red-Horse introduced a Special Veteran’s Day screening of True Whispers: the Story of the Navajo Code Talkers. The film, directed and produced by Ms. Red-Horse, explores from the Native point of view the complex story of the role that the Native American code talkers and the Navajo language played in secret communications during World War II. No cryptography system proved as effective during the war as did the use of Navajo code talkers using their tribal language to transmit military communiques. Countless American lives were saved because of the service of these brave young Native American Marines. Ms. Red-Horse will discuss the film and answer questions after the hour-long documentary.

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*LECTURE: Anton Treuer, December 3^rd

LIVING OUR LANGUAGE

Anton Treuer, a professor at Bemidji State University, is an authority on the Ojibwe language and oral tradition. Author of "Living Our Language," Professor Treuer shares with us his unique insight on the importance of language to Native peoples in a modern world.