Dear Friends of the American Indian Studies Center,

March opened with the terrible news of the assassination of Lenca environmental activist Berta Cáceres in Honduras. A recipient of several major international awards for her brave work against hydro-electric dams, she had been subject to multiple death threats and the Inter American Commission on Human Rights recently ordered the government of Honduras to take precautionary measures to protect her safety. We are deeply saddened by her loss.

Please see the AISC letter to Honduran President Juan Orlando Hernández condemn his violent act.

Also, please stay tuned for info on an upcoming AISC Urgent Forum on Berta Cáceres and Indigenous Peoples’ Rights at the Intersection of Resource Extraction and Violence in Honduras. Details coming soon!

We have a number of other exciting events coming up this month. Please see below for details. Hope to see you all at some of them!

Finally, please join me in welcoming visiting researcher Rene Dietrich, who will be with us this month. He introduces himself below. I hope those of you with shared interests will reach out to him and get to know him during his time here at UCLA.

Hi, I am a post-doc researcher from Germany who is working on a book about U.S. settler colonial biopolitics and Native life writing, as well as on an edited volume addressing issues of geopolitics, biopolitics, and life (resulting from a conference I hosted last year, with Mishuana Goeman, Mark Rifkin and Sandy Grande among the speakers); which is also to say that I am generally interested in furthering a transatlantic dialogue on settler colonial and Indigenous studies. I am very excited to come to UCLA in just a few days, to learn more about all of your work and to have the chance to present some of my own—basically, just to get to know and be part of such a vibrant scholarly community at the AISC for a few weeks. Looking forward to it, Rene dietricr@uni-mainz.de

Shannon

March 9, 12 - 1.30 pm
Sun Come Up (38 min) (followed by a discussion)
Haines 352
About the film: This Academy-Award nominated film follows the relocation of the Carteret Islanders, a community living on a remote island chain in the South Pacific Ocean, and now, some of the world’s first environmental refugees.
When climate change threatens their survival, the islanders face a painful decision. They must leave their ancestral land in search of a new place to call home. Sun Come Up follows a group of young islanders as they search for land and build relationships in war-torn Bougainville, 50 miles across the open ocean.

Screenings are free and open to all.

Organized and sponsored by the Cultural Politics of Nature Working Group (Jessica Cattelino, Isa Arriola, Bradley Cardozo, Courtney Cecale, Tanya Matthan)

Trying Times: Disability, Activism and Education in Samoa

Lecture by Dr. Juliann Anesi.

Wednesday, March 16, 2016
3-5 PM
Room 2343, Public Policy

Presented by the UCLA American Indian Student Association

Friday-Sunday, March 18-20, 2016
Youth Conference:
Saturday, March 19, 2016
- Open to ALL students
- Keynote speaker
- 12+ Workshops on Higher education, culture, art & wellness
- Meals provided

Basketball Tournament
Friday night - Sunday morning
- Girls and Boys brackets
- Must be ages 12-19
- Must be in grades 6-12
- 1st, 2nd, and 3rd place teams awards
- MVP of the tournament award

http://www.aisc.ucla.edu/events/youthconference2016.aspx

American Constitutions: Life, Liberty, and Property in Colonial East Florida

Lecture by Nancy O. Gallman, UC Davis.

Thursday, March 31, 2016
12-2PM
History Conference Room, 6275 Bunche Hall

A talk and short video presentation presented by Tarajean Yazzie-Mintz, Ed.D., Senior Program Officer, American Indian College Fund

Tuesday, April 26, 2016
4-6PM
4371 Public Affairs

Sponsored by the UCLA American Indian Studies Center, Department of Public Policy, and Kneller Endowment in Education and Anthropology.

Please distribute widely.

Spring 2016 Call for Proposals (UCLA Faculty)
The Institute on Inequality and Democracy at UCLA Luskin advances radical democracy in an unequal world through research, critical thought, and alliances with social movements and racial justice activism. Eligibility: All UCLA faculty are eligible to apply either on an individual basis or as a research team. In the case of the latter, the application must indicate a lead researcher.

Spring 2016 Call for Proposals (UCLA graduate students)
The Institute on Inequality and Democracy at UCLA Luskin advances radical democracy in an unequal world through research, critical thought, and alliances with social movements and racial justice activism. Eligibility: All UCLA graduate students are eligible to apply in teams. Each team must be comprised of at least 3 graduate students drawn from at least 2 different departments.

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