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Please save the date for these upcoming Native American Heritage Month Events.

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"UNEXPECTED INDIANS IN EXPECTED PLACES: THE QUEER CASE OF NABOR FELIX" PRESENTED BY PROFESSOR MICHELLE RAHEJA

Save the Date: Wednesday, November 9, 2011
2:00-4:00 p.m.
Rolfe 2125
Special presentation by Professor Michelle Raheja, Associate Professor of English, University of California, Riverside

Through a discussion of the life and work of Nabor Felix, Professor Raheja examines the centrality of the peripheral Native performing figure in debates about representation, indigenous epistemologies, and identity formations. Felix, who identified as Apache and Laguna Pueblo, was a silent film extra and circus side show performer employed by Ringling Brothers, Barnum and Bailey, and Al G. Barnes. Felix worked as a sculptor in the side shows, engaging in intimate contact with spectators and complicating notions of the Indian spectacle by focusing attention on his art rather than on physical or performative alterity. By consulting archival materials at the Southwest Museum in Los Angeles, Raheja interrogates how Felix's life and work intersect with and enrich Native American visual culture discourse and queer theory.

Sponsored by The UCLA American Indian Studies Center and UCLA Center for the Study of Women

UCLA AMERICAN INDIAN STUDIES OPEN HOUSE

Save the Date: Thursday, November 10, 2011
4:00 – 6:00 p.m.
American Indian Studies Center
3220 Campbell Hall

Come meet faculty, students, AISC staff, and community members. We are especially excited to welcome incoming American Indian Studies and Native American students.

Sponsored by American Indian Recruitment (AIR), American Indian Studies Center, American Indian Studies Interdepartmental Program, Retention of American Indians Now! (RAIN), Tribal Learning Community Educational Exchange (TLCEE), UCLA Undergraduate Admissions and Relations with Schools (UARS)

"INDIAN RENAISSANCE:  CONCRETE POLICY CHANGES THAT CAN REVOLUTIONIZE INDIAN COUNTRY" – A CONVERSATION WITH HEATHER DAWN THOMPSON AND ANGELA RILEY

Save the Date: Tuesday, November 15, 2011
1:10-2:55 PM, Law 1314

David J. Epstein Program in Public Interest Law and Policy Speaker Series presents a conversation with Heather Dawn Thompson, Assistant United States Attorney, Indian Country Federal Prosecutor for the Pine Ridge Indian Reservation South Dakota, and Angela Riley, Professor Law, UCLA School of Law, Director of UCLA American Indian Studies Center.

RSVP required — CLICK HERE

If you have any questions about the program, please contact Cathy Mayorkas (mayorkas@law.ucla.edu)

5TH ANNUAL LOS ANGELES SKINS FEST

Thursday-Sunday, November 17-20, 2011
Autry National Center

This year, we are celebrating new and great films from Indian Country. We have expanded our festival to reach more of our community and
are now housed at the Autry National Center for the entire week. For more information, visit www.laskinsfest.com

Co-Sponsored by the UCLA American Indian Studies Center

OTHER NEWS AND EVENTS

AISA NATIVE HERITAGE WEEK
Nov 7 - Nov 10
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• Monday Film: Two Spirits
  6-9p, Harry & Yvonne Lenart Auditorium
  Discussion to follow with Elton Naswood (Navajo) & Shawn Imitates Dog (Oglala Lakota)
• Tuesday Heritage Day 
  11a-2p Bruin Plaza 
  Dance, Song, Speaker
• Wednesday Native Style: Art & Fashion Show 
  6-8p Ackerman Grand Ballroom
  Native American Arts and Crafts
• Thursday Educational Summit
  5:30-8p, Ackerman 2nd Floor Lounge 
  Guest Speaker & Discussion led by Margeret Cahuilla Red Elk 
  
  
  
• Download Flyer (PDF)

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