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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),
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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.
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Wednesday-Saturday, October 19-22, 2011 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 Conference Registration | Information for Presses and Advertisers Principal Co-sponsorship: The UCLA American Indian Studies Center
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To preorder this book, contact AISC Sales at sales@aisc.ucla.edu or call at (310) 206-7508. $16 paper. 138 pages $30 hardcover
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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."
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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
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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
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Save the Date: Thursday, November 10, 2011 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)
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RACE, ETHNICITY AND POLITICS SPEAKER SERIES: PROFESSOR MELISSA HARRIS-PERRY IMAGINARY COMMUNITIES: INDIANS AND CAMPESINOS IN MEXICAN SOCIAL THOUGHT Thursday, October 06, 2011
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Hanay 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.
Dr. Kourà 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 Kourà 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.