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Indian Heritage Month Talks at GVSU This Week
Tuesday, November 10th, 2009
Loosemore Auditorium
6 p.m. to 8 p.m.
Special Guest: Dennis Banks
Movie: We Shall Remain: Episode V – Wounded Knee followed by a firsthand discussion with Dennis Banks.
Dennis Banks (Ojibwe) is one of the co-founders of the American Indian Movement (AIM). AIM began in Minneapolis in 1968 to prevent police brutality against urban Indians. It grew rapidly during the late 1960s and early 1970s. Banks took a leading role in the decisions leading to the takeovers of Alcatraz Island and Bureau of Indian Affairs Office in Washington D.C., to bring attention to the poor living conditions American Indians endured throughout the United States. In 2004, he authored Ojibwa Warrior: Dennis Banks and the Rise of the American Indian Movement.
Thursday, November 12th, 2009
L.V. Eberhard Center, 2nd Floor, Auditorium
7 p.m. to 9 p.m.
Movie: The Business of Fancydancing (Written & directed by Sherman Alexie)
Special Guests: Paul Collins, Jennifer Gauthier, Shannon Martin
Friday, November 13th, 2009
L.V. Eberhard Center, 2nd Floor
5:15 p.m.: Traditional Native American Ceremony
5:30 p.m. to 6:30 p.m.: Journey to Forgiveness: Implications for Social Change
Special Guests: Hunter Genia, George Martin, Shannon Martin
7 p.m. to 9 p.m. (Seating is first come/first serve – overflow seating in the Eberhard Auditorium and DeVos Center)
Special Guest: Sherman Alexie
Talk at Columbia Law School re: DV in Indian Country
I’ll be presenting my paper “Addressing the Epidemic of Domestic Violence in Indian Country by Restoring Tribal Sovereignty” at Columbia Law School today, on the gracious invitation of the Columbia NALSA and Domestic Violence Project.
Linda Hogan to Speak at Aquinas College Next Week
As part of the continuing Contemporary Writers Series at Aquinas College , Linda Hogan, one of the most influential and provocative Native American figures in contemporary American literature, will read and speak in the Wege Center Ballroom on the Aquinas campus. The event will be held on October 29 at 7:30 p.m. and is free and open to the public.
Hogan, a Chickasaw poet, novelist, essayist, playwright and activist, grew up in a military family, spending most of her childhood in Oklahoma and Colorado . Hogan received her master’s degree in English and creative writing from the University of Colorado , and was the writer-in-residence for the states of Colorado and Oklahoma . In 1982 she became an assistant professor in the TRIBES program at Colorado College , Colorado Springs after which she became an associate professor of American Indian Studies at the University of Minnesota . She then moved to the University of Colorado as a professor in the English department. She left that position to become a full-time writer. Hogan’s writing is prolific, and she has distinguished herself as a political ideologist and an environmental/philosophical theorist.
Podcast on the History of the Department of Interior: “Sick Man” of American Government
Thanks to Legal History Blog for this one (the “sick man” line is from that blog):
Patricia Limerick
Parks and Politics: Saving the American Environment
The University of Colorado, Boulder
July 22, 2008
Running Time: 51:41 (click here to find the play button)
Bureaucrats, University of Colorado professor of history Patricia Limerick argues, are often the most overlooked (at best) or reviled (at worst) of government officials, but they wield tremendous powers that shape Americans’ daily lives. Nowhere is this more true than in the bureaucracy of the U.S. Department of the Interior. A wide-ranging agency charged with both protecting land and promoting its use, the Department of the Interior implements federal law over millions of acres of land and mediates the claims of environmental, mining, foresting, farming, and ranching interests, among others. Bureaucracies like the Department of the Interior may be boring, Limerick argues, but historians cannot ignore their impact on the development of the American West.
Talk before the U-M ACS Chapter re: Domestic Violence in Indian Country — April 9
I’ll be presenting a short talk on my ACS Issue Brief “Addressing the Epidemic of Domestic Violence in Indian Country by Restoring Tribal Sovereignty” this Thursday at 12:20 at the University of Michigan Law School.
The U-M ACS chapter and the U-M NALSA — are co-hosting.
Stuart Banner Talk Tuesday, March 24
The Indigenous Law and Policy Center is pleased to host Stuart Banner, a UCLA law professor and author of “Possessing the Pacific” and “How the Indians Lost Their Land” Tuesday, March 24, at 11 AM.
Prof. Banner will be talking about these two books. Michigan State Prof. Charles Ten Brink and U-M History VAP/ post-doctoral fellow at the Michigan Society of Fellows Miranda Johnson will be serving as commentators after Prof. Banner speaks.
Prof. Banner’s talk is part of the Center’s spring speaker series, in which we bring in authors of recent books relating in some way to Federal Indian Law.
The talk is at 11 AM in the Castle Board Room, and a light lunch will be provided. Hope to see you there!
Michigan Indian Tuition Waiver Presentation for Michigan Indian Education Conference
It’s here, in powerpoint: michigan-indian-tuition-waiver-2009
And here is a link to our materials relating to the Michigan Indian Tuition Waiver.
“Factbound and Splitless” Today at UC-Berkeley Law School
I’ll be presenting “Factbound and Splitless” today at UC-Berkeley Law School. Here’s a taste….
Justin Richland Talk Here–February 17, 2009–11 AM
Justin Richland, a professor in the Department of Criminology, Law, and Society at the University of California, Irvine, will be giving a talk about his new book from the University of Chicago Press — “Arguing with Tradition: The Language of Law in Hopi Tribal Court.” Here is the synopsis:
Arguing with Tradition is the first book to explore language and interaction within a contemporary Native American legal system. Grounded in Justin Richland’s extensive field research on the Hopi Indian Nation of northeastern Arizona—on whose appellate court he now serves as Justice Pro Tempore—this innovative work explains how Hopi notions of tradition and culture shape and are shaped by the processes of Hopi jurisprudence.
Like many indigenous legal institutions across North America, the Hopi Tribal Court was created in the image of Anglo-American-style law. But Richland shows that in recent years, Hopi jurists and litigants have called for their courts to develop a jurisprudence that better reflects Hopi culture and traditions. Providing unprecedented insights into the Hopi and English courtroom interactions through which this conflict plays out, Richland argues that tensions between the language of Anglo-style law and Hopi tradition both drive Hopi jurisprudence and make it unique. Ultimately, Richland’s analyses of the language of Hopi law offer a fresh approach to the cultural politics that influence indigenous legal and governmental practices worldwide.
The Chief Judge of the Little Traverse Bay Bands of Odawa Indians, JoAnne Cook-Gasco will be commenting on the book.
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