Announcements

Neocolonial Inscription and Performance of American Identity in American Indian Higher Education — Conference Announcement

Matthew L.M. Fletcher

The conference website is here and registration starts soon!

Here is the law panel, hosted by the MSU Indigenous Law and Policy Center:

Law: Who’s Legal and Why Should or Shouldn’t That Matter?

Panelists: Andrew Adams III, General Counsel, St. Croix Chippewa Indians of Wisconsin; Trent Cable, Makah Nation; Colette Routel, Atty Jacobson, Buffalo, Magnuson, Anderson & Hogen in St. Paul, Minnesota.

John Petoskey, Grand Traverse Band of Ottawa and Chippewa Indians, and Kate Fort, MSU Indigenous Law and Policy Center, will be sitting on panels as well.

The rest of the panels are listed here.

John Petoskey — Dibishkaa!!!!

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Wish John a Happy Birthday in the comments section!

Book Reading at Everybody Reads (Lansing) — October 25

Matthew L.M. Fletcher

I’ll be reading from my book “American Indian Education: Counternarratives in Racism, Struggle, and the Law” at Everybody Reads, located at 2019 E. Michigan, Lansing, Michigan. The reading and book signing will take place at October 25, 2008, from 1-3 PM.

More details here.

Call for Proposals: Critical Issues Conference

Matthew L.M. Fletcher

Native American Critical Issues Conference

Call for Workshops

“Visioning Our Future, Celebrating Our Traditions”

The Michigan Indian Education Council invites you to submit workshop proposals on issues related to Native American education.

Selected proposals will be invited to present at the Critical Issues Conference on March 12-14, 2009.

We invite you to share your programs and perspectives on American Indian issues.

Workshop Proposal forms may be downloaded at our web site , which is http://www.miec.org.

Please submit one copy of the proposal form by
November 1, 2008 to:
MIEC
PO Box 378
Haslett, MI 48840

Notification of acceptance will be made by January 2009

“Bringing Civil Rights to Indian Country”

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Here is the brochure on a civil rights and racism conference to be held at Chehalis by the Washington Indian Civil Rights Commission. Looks like a great program, with Billy Frank, Eloise Cobell, Alan Parker, Dennis Chappabitty, John McCoy, Dee Koester, and Bob Anderson.

Jim Harrison to Speak at MSU on Thursday

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From WKAR:

Authors With MSU Roots Return To East Lansing
This week, three literary giants…all Michigan State University graduates…will appear together on campus. Thomas McGuane, Jim Harrison and Richard Ford will speak at what’s being called a Michigan Author Homecoming Thursday evening. Presented by the Michigan Humanities Council, the event is the culmination of The Great Michigan Read. For a year, the Council has encouraged the people of Michigan to read Ernest Hemingway’s “Nick Adams Stories”. All three authors have lengthy lists of published works, with too many awards and film adaptations to mention. WKAR’S Scott Pohl recently spoke with McGuane and Harrison, both on the phone from their homes in Montana…about their current projects and their motivation for agreeing to appear in public together. The Michigan Author Homecoming is Thursday at 7:30 p.m. in the Pasant Theatre in the Wharton Center at Michigan State University. A book-signing will follow the program.

aired Jul. 8, 2008 | length: 11:43 Extended Version

You can hear the whole interview at the WKAR link.

Saganing Powwow, June 27-29

Kate Fort

From the Bay City Times:

Saganing Members Aim to Teach Indian Culture at Standish Powwow

by Helen Lounsbury

STANDISH – When tribal drummers, singers and dancers take their places this weekend for the Saganing powwow near Standish, don’t think of the event as a first.

It’s a homecoming – a celebration of origins for the Saginaw Chippewa Indian Tribe, members say.

“I get so full of emotion when I attend our cultural events,” says Mary Bukowiec, a Standish member of what is now a Mount Pleasant-based tribe. “This event will be especially meaningful… After centering things in Mount Pleasant for so long, this powwow has come home.”

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“American Indian Education” on Interlochen Public Radio

Matthew L.M. Fletcher

This morning! How’s that for late notice. It starts at 9:06, they tell me.

I’ll be on Interlochen Public Radio‘s Points North this morning talking about my book, “American Indian Education: Counternarratives in Racism, Struggle, and the Law.” Hope you can catch it.

Society of American Indian Government Employees Annual Conference @ GT Resort

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SAIGE is hosting its 5th annual conference this week at the Grand Traverse Resort. The program features several excellent, nationally-known speakers, including Johnny BearCub Stiffarm, Stephen Pevar, and Daniel Wildcat. Here is the agenda.

“American Indian Education” Published TODAY

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My book, “American Indian Education: Counternarratives in Racism, Struggle, and the Law,” is being published today by Routledge (if the website is to be believed). You can download the introduction and table of contents on SSRN (here).