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SEPTEMBER 2011 e-NEWSLETTER


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MESSAGE FROM THE DIRECTOR

Dear Friends of the UCLA American Indian Studies Center,

Welcome back!  We hope you have had a restful and productive summer.

Here at the American Indian Studies Center we've been hard at work to enrich the Center's research mission. We are focusing considerable attention on our new research initiative, Partners for Justice: UCLA Institute for Criminal Law in Indian Country, which supports the work of the Indian Law and Order Commission. And the Center will be the principal sponsor of the American Society of Ethnohistory Conference to take place October 19-22, 2011 in the Westin Hotel in Pasadena, CA. Scroll down to see more news and upcoming events.

We are excited about what is to come in the next year. Of particular note, the Center is involved in two UCLA faculty searches. Details on both positions are below, as well as contact information for inquiries. We appreciate you spreading the word to qualified candidates.  Please note that both searches have an application deadline of December 1, 2011, and potential applicants should apply to each position separately.

When you are back on campus, please come by Campbell Hall and say hello to faces old and new, including our new Graduate Student Researcher, Meredith Duarte (Seneca and Apache). (Read more about her below.) Finally, please save the date of Thursday, November 10th, 2011, 4:00 to 6:00 p.m. for our fall Open House. We look forward to seeing you there! And, as always, the Center website is updated daily with job postings, upcoming events, and opportunities of interest. Please check it regularly and join us on Facebook.

Megwetch (thank you),
Angela R. Riley
Director

(www.aisc.ucla.edu)

 


PARTNERS FOR JUSTICE PRESENTS COMPREHENSIVE RESEARCH DOCUMENT TO THE INDIAN LAW AND ORDER COMMISSION

AISC's 2011 research initiative, Partners for Justice: Institute on Criminal Law in Indian Country (Partners for Justice) emerged from discussions between esteemed UCLA law professor, Vice Chancellor, and Commission Member, Carole Goldberg, and AISC Director, Angela Riley, as they considered ways in which the AISC could provide support for the ILOC's important work on criminal justice in Indian country. Under the direction of Professor Riley, Partners for Justice has become the premier research institute for the Indian Law and Order Commission (ILOC), established by the Tribal Law and Order Act. This month, Partners for Justice made its first presentation to the ILOC.  Under the supervision of Senior Research Analyst, Diana Webster, Research Analyst Leah Shearer presented the ILOC with a comprehensive compilation of research and testimony relevant to the Commission's purpose. The report, "Partners for Justice: Summary of Reports and Testimony," provides a reference resource for the ILOC, including 22 focused summaries of Department of Justice or federal agency reports on criminal justice in Indian country, 21 summarized Congressional testimonies, and updated information on the TLOA's implementation reports. As a next step, Partners for Justice will develop a website (www.aisc.ucla.edu/partnersforjustice) that highlights the Commission's mission and ongoing work and will also begin drafting policy briefs on critical criminal justice issues in Indian country for the ILOC.

As part of continued efforts to support the ILOC, Partners for Justice sent Research Analyst, Leah Shearer, to participate as an observer at the first Tribal Law and Order Act, Indian Law & Order Commission field meeting at the Tulalip Indian Reservation in September. These meetings offer tribal leaders a forum to provide expert testimony on tribal justice and juvenile justice issues in Indian country for the ILOC's consideration in presenting policy recommendations to improve tribal justice systems. Key discussions and testimony presented at the meeting will be transcribed onsite and then summarized by Partners for Justice for the ILOC's reference.



SAVE THE DATE: THE AMERICAN SOCIETY FOR ETHNOHISTORY, OCTOBER 19-22, 2011

Wednesday-Saturday, October 19-22, 2011
The Westin Hotel
191 North Los Robles Avenue

Pasadena, California 91101

The American Society for Ethnohistory (ASE) was founded in 1954 to promote the interdisciplinary investigation of the histories of the Native Peoples of the Americas. The ethnohistorical method, as it has come to be known, involves developing histories informed by ethnography, linguistics, archaeology, and ecology. For more information, visit www.ethnohistory.org

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Principal Co-sponsorship: The UCLA American Indian Studies Center

 


NEW BOOK AVAILABLE IN SEPTEMBER

hanay.jpgHanay Geiogamah's new book, Ceremony, Spirituality, and Ritual in Native American Performance: A Creative Notebook, approaches Native American theater as ceremonial performance and examines the elements of myth, spirituality, and ceremony and their integration into dramatic performances.

To preorder this book, contact AISC Sales at sales@aisc.ucla.edu or call at (310) 206-7508.

$16 paper. 138 pages
10-digit ISBN: 0-935626-65-4
13-digit ISBN: 978-0-935626-65-0

$30 hardcover
10-digit ISBN: 0-935626-66-2

 


PROFESSOR MICHELLE ERAI (WOMEN'S STUDIES) AND AISC ARE AWARDED SEED GRANT

We are pleased to announce that the Office of the Vice Chancellor for Research recently awarded  Professor Michelle Erai (Women's Studies), in collaboration with the AISC, a Transdisciplinary Seed Grant for InSight: Indigenous Digital Images and Violence Prevention.  The project also received critical funding from the Clinical and Translational Science Institute and the Office of the Vice Provost for Diversity and Faculty Development. 

InSight will engage five local urban American Indian youth in creating digital images reflecting violence-free lives.  Professor Erai was inspired to undertake this project based on her prior work in New Zealand.  AISC Director, Professor Angela Riley, is Co-Principal Investigator on the grant.  AISC offered support in writing the successful grant proposal and will also assist in the implementation of project goals. The research team includes Patrick "Pato" Hebert, an intermedia artist, educator and cultural worker, as well as UCLA Ph.D. candidate, Kimberly Robertson. Professor Erai believes that the project works to fulfill multiple goals, including "building relationships with community partners, outreach and modeling for potential American Indian university students and their families, combining disciplines and methodologies in ways that recognize indigenous and feminist concerns."

 


OPEN-RANKED TENURE POSITION IN NATIVE AMERICAN STUDIES, UCLA DEPARTMENTS OF ENGLISH AND HISTORY

The UCLA Departments of English and History, in collaboration with American Indian Studies Center, invite applications for an open-ranked tenured and tenure track position in Native American Studies. Candidates should demonstrate engagement with the changing dynamics of the field, and have a strong record of publication that engages the literature and/or history of Native American cultures and societies. The successful candidate could be housed in either the History or English department, or have a split appointment between the two.

Candidates should submit a letter of application, curriculum vitae, 20-page writing sample, and dossier including three letters of recommendation to Search Committee, American Indian Studies Center, 3220 Campbell Hall, University of California-Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA 90095. The position is subject to final administrative approval.

UCLA is an affirmative action/equal opportunity employer. Women and minorities are encouraged to apply.

Deadline: December 1st, 2011

 



AISC WELCOMES NEW GRADUATE STUDENT RESEARCHER, MEREDITH DUARTE

Meredith Duarte was selected to be the American Indian Studies Center‘s 2011-2012 Graduate Student Researcher appointed to AISC Director and Law professor, Angela Riley. Meredith graduated from Chapman University with a B.A. in Political Science and minors in Women's Studies and Indigenous studies. As a second year graduate student, Meredith is a recipient of the 2011-2012 UCLA Institute of American Cultures Ethnic Studies Research Grant and is currently researching the National Museum of the American Indian Act and its profound effects on American Indian repatriations. Meredith has been an active member in the Southern California American Indian community her entire life, first as a member of the Native American United Methodist Church and also as a volunteer with the Southern California Indian Center throughout her adolescence. Meredith's tribal background includes the Seneca (mother) and Apache (father). Her American Indian heritage and upbringing has not only shaped the person Meredith is, but has also guided her interest in her current field of study. She plans to attend law school to advocate for the American Indian community that is so important to her.

 



"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

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)

 


OTHER NEWS AND EVENTS

WORLD FESTIVAL OF SACRED MUSIC OPENING: HONORING THE SEA
Agape International Choir
Halau Keali'i O Nalani with Halau O Lilinoe
Kinnara Taiko
La Canada High School Marching Band
Sacred Rhythm Drum Ensemble
Swing Brazil Tribe with Viver Brasil
Ti'at Society
Saturday, October 1, 2011
3
:00 PM - 7:00 PM
Cost: Free; no reservations required.
Join us as we honor the sea on the shores of Santa Monica Beach. Over four hundred artists launch the 2011 World Festival of Sacred Music in a celebration that speaks to the tremendous diversity of our city. United in purpose, artists will gather at Dorothy Green Park (named in honor of the founder of Heal the Bay). Click here for more information.

RACE, ETHNICITY AND POLITICS SPEAKER SERIES: PROFESSOR MELISSA HARRIS-PERRY
Flyer - MHP sm.jpgWednesday, October 5, 2011
12:00-2:00 PM
Faculty Center Downstairs Lounge

Center for the Study of Race, Ethnicity and Politics and The Center for the Study of Urban Poverty invites you to the Race, Ethnicity and Politics Speaker Series presenting: Melissa Harris-Perry, Professor of Political Science at Tulane University. Discussing her book, Sister Citizen: Shame, Stereotypes, and Black Women in America.

For more information, contact Cory Gooding at cgooding@ucla.edu or visit http://www.csrep.ucla.edu

IMAGINARY COMMUNITIES: INDIANS AND CAMPESINOS IN MEXICAN SOCIAL THOUGHT
Lecture by Dr. Emilio Kouri, Professor of History & Director of the Katz Center for Mexican Studies at the University of Chicago

Thursday, October 06, 2011
3:00 PM - 4:30 PM
6275 Bunche Hall (History Conference Room), UCLA

Dr. Kourí earned his AB in philosophy and his PhD in history from Harvard University. He is the author of the prize-winning book "A Pueblo Divided: Business, Property and Community in Papantla, Mexico." In this lecture, Professor Kourí will explore the centrality of deeply entrenched and largely unexamined ideas about Indian communities and communal organization in the social imagination of Mexico that were brought to the fore by the 1994 Zapatista uprising in Chiapas. Click here for more information.
Cost: Free and open to the public.
The lecture will be preceded by a light lunch at 12:30 pm in the History Department Reading Room (6265 Bunche Hall) for students and faculty to meet with Dr. Kourí informally. Please RSVP to gomez@international.ucla.edu by October 3rd if you are interested in attending. 

SAVE THE DATES

  • California Indian Law Association 11th Annual Indian Law Conference
    Friday, October 14, 2011, 8:30 AM - 5:00 PM
    Thunder Valley Casino & Resort, 1200 Athens Ave., Lincoln CA
    www.calindianlaw.org
  • Native American Student Advocacy Institute (NASAI) Conference
    Tuesday-Wednesday, May 22-23, 2012

    Hosted by the College Board on UCLA campus

THE NATIVE AMERICAN RIGHTS FUND SUMMER CLERK LAW POSITIONS

The Native American Rights Fund (NARF), the leading legal organization fighting for Native rights in the U.S., has available positions for Summer 2012 Law Clerks! The Native American Rights Fund is committed to the professional development of new attorneys in the field of Indian law. Each year NARF conducts a nationwide search for law school students to participate in its clerkship program in all three of its offices (Boulder, CO; Anchorage, A.K.; and Washington, D.C.). NARF is looking for law students who will have completed their second year of law school by this summer. Ideal applicants will have previous employment experience and/or coursework involving Native American law.

The application deadline is October 31, 2011. Please include in the application:
1) Cover Letter
2) Resume
3) Legal writing sample
4) Law school transcript
5) Three letters of recommendation
This summer position pays $17/hour.

For more information please see the following link on our website:
http://www.narf.org/contact/clerk.htm To apply contact: anderson@narf.org

SUNDANCE INSTITUTE SEEKING INTERN IN NATIVE PROGRAM

Title: Intern, Native Program
Office Location: Beverly Hills, CA
Job Level: Intern
Position Reports to: Manager, Native American and Indigenous Program
Department: Native American and Indigenous Program
Dates worked (if less than 12 months): 10/3/2011 - 6/1/2012

How to Apply:
Interested and qualified applicants may apply online at: http://sundancejobs.iapplicants.com/ViewJob-223499.html

Indigenous Forum 2011 Co-Produced by The Cultural Conservancy

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Discount Code: NATIVE20.

 

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