O'siyo Brothers and Sisters! Here is the news items I have collected for you during this excursion. Until and unless a Native American RoundTable can be a reality there needs to be a method to make others aware of plights and opportunities to help others on the Red Road. Mitaquye Oyasin! Night Owl ----------------------- clip here for news features -- 8< --------- Original Sender: CUBLDR.Colorado.EDU!leeson_k@gnosys.UUCP Moderator's Note: This message was posted to the NAT-EDU list earlier today without a subject line. I'm sorry for the duplicate message, but I want to make sure that Karen's message gets posted properly and that it appears in our archives with a subject line. Still learning! Mark Dewart NAT-EDU Moderator dewart@butler.edu -------------------------------------------------------------------------- I would like to pass this information below along to anyone that is interested. This is a very dedicated group of people who are willing to use their expertise and also to learn from others. They are devoted to helping multi-cultural groups and in particular Native American groups. The late Omer Stewart spent his life fighting for religious freedom for Native Americans. Dr. Walker, who I have taken classes from, is very dedicated to the Native Americans and is now trying to turn around the sterotypes created by academics and present the Native American as he is today. This group will be holding a meeting in April. It is concentrated in the High Plains area, but reaches beyond that. It is not limited to just anthro, but to many other disciplines, business, health, education etc. If anyone is interested in receiving more information, please contact one of the people below. Thanks, Karen ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- The High Plains Society for Applied Anthropology recently held its annual retreat at the Ghost Ranch in New Mexico where attention was focused on the Society's mission statement and legislative agenda. The High Plains Society for Applied Anthropology is an organization designed to provide mutual professional support among applied and practicing anthropologists in the High Plains and Inter mountain region. Various University of Colorado faculty and alumnae attended. The University of Colorado and its faculty and graduates are leaders in applied anthropology throughout the High Plains region. The High Plains Society for Applied Anthropology began in 1980 as a regional section of the Society for Applied Anthropology, a national anthropological organization. Its founding members were the late Omer Call Stewart, Professor Emeritus of the University of Colorado at Boulder; Gottfried Lang, Professor Emeritus of the University of Colorado ; Deward E. Walker, Jr. , current Professor of Anthropology at the University of Colorado at Boulder. Dr. Walker has also served as editor of Human Organization, a journal of the international society for Applied Anthropology and in other applied capacities at the regional, national, and international levels. The High Plains Society for Applied Anthropology includes members of various disciplines who find anthropological approaches useful in solving technical, environmental, economic, community, linguistic, health, political, and other problems encountered in the communities of the region. Normally their work is concentrated in multi-cultural settings of rapid changes caused by economic, social, cultural, and demographic shifts in the High Plains region. The society holds an annual meeting in April and publishes a journal biannually that presents a variety of articles on various aspects of applied anthropology and other applied social sciences in the High Plains regions. Dr. Susan Scott-Stevens of Boulder is the current editor, who may be reached at (303) 444-7120. Consultants may be contacted through the society by calling Dr. Carla Littlefield, President, at (303) 832-5068, or Dr. Peter Van Arsdale, President-Elect, at (303) 762-4094. HPSfAA membership is open. For membership information contact Dr. Peter Van Arsdale, Chair, HPSfAA Membership Committee, 7321 East Long Avenue, Englewood, CO 80112. Original Sender: math.concord.wvnet.edu!DOYLEJ February 19, 1993 Dear Native Net Subscribers: I am a history professor at Concord College in Athens, West Virginia. This semester, I am part of a team that is teaching a course on minority groups for education majors. My job is to bring some historical perspective to minority group issues. One of the topics that I plan to discuss is the history of Native American education in the United States. A few years ago, I saw an excellent broadcast on PBS dealing with the topic of the boarding schools for Native American children that were set up in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. This program was a fictionalized account of a couple of Native American children who were quite literally kidnapped from their parents and dragged off to one of these schools to be "acculturated." It was a sensitive and, as far as I could tell, fairly accurate portrayal of these institutions. After the fictionalized account, the people who had filmed the program presented some interviews with adult Native Americans who had attended one of these schools in the early twentieth century. They offered some interesting insights into what the experience was like. I thought that this might be a good program to show my students. It could serve as a springboard for several different topics, both historical and contemporary. My problem is that I do not remember the name of the program or whether it was part of a series, or even exactly when I saw it, much less how I might go about obtaining a copy of it on film or videotape. If anybody can help me out with this, or give me other suggestions of suitable programs on this topic, I would greatly appreciate it. Thank you for your help. Judi Doyle doylej@math.concord.wvnet.edu Original Sender: Troy American Indian Visions The 1993 Ewald Scholars Program Sweet Briar College, Virginia April 1, 2, & 3 1993 The Ewald Scholars Program is an honor program in memory of John A. Ewald, Sr.. It has brought internationally recognized scholars from diverse fields to Sweet Briar College. The following is an explanation and list of participants who will be attending on the date above at Sweet Briar College. The American Indian voice, in literature and the arts, in political life and contemporary society, will play an important and vital role in shaping American society in the next century. American Indian Visions will explore the means by which American Indian leaders and their people can preserve, foster, and promote their cultural heritage in the next century, while addressing the social and political realities of contemporary American Indian life. Through panel discussions, lectures, art, and dance and musical performances - vital components of contemporary American culture -- speakers will address critical issues facing American Indians today, including environmental destruction, land returns, and treaty rights, cultural property, and tribal sovereignty. 1993, designated as the United Nations Year of the Indigenous People, is intended to encourage the world-wide recognition of native peoples, who have been subjected to war, famine, environmental destruction, and genocide. In the Americas, the American Indians have survived 500 years of European domination, which has drastically affected their way of life. Participants will be: Wilma Mankiller, Chief, Cherokee Nation Raymond Adams, Chief Emeritus of the Upper Mattaponi Roger Anyon, Director of the Zuni Archeology Program in New Mexico Martin Brokenleg, Rosebud Sioux, Chair of the Sociology Dept. of Augustana College. Charlotte Black Elk, Oglala Lakota, Sec. of the Black Hills Steering Committee Phyllis Hicks, Tribal Representative for the Monacan Tribe of Va. Kevin Locke, Lakota of the Standing Rock Reservation. One of 13 Americans awarded a National Heritage Fellowship. Oren Lyons, faithkeeper of the Turtle Clan of the Onondaga Nation and spokesman for the Six Nations Iroquois Confederacy. N. Scott Momaday, nationally recognized poet, prose writer, and painter whose works reflect his Kiowa heritage. Leslie Marmon Silko, Laguna Pueblo tribe of New Mexico, author. Jaune Quick-To-See Smith, member of the Flathead tribe, Montana, activist and environmentalist. The Great American Indian Dancers, American Indian traditions from the southwest to the Great Lakes woodlands, from the Rocky Mountains to southeast Alaska. For more info. contact the following: Office of Public Relations Sweet Briar, Va 24595 (804) 381-6262