THANK YOU FROM UCLA AISC!

The Superdiversity California Style: New Approaches to Race, Civil Rights, Governance and Cultural Production Inaugural Conference was a great success. We thank our faculty, staff, friends, students, and community members that participated!

14th Annual UCLA American Indian Youth Conference and Basketball Tournament

Saturday, March 22, 2013, 4 PM - 9:00 PM
Sunday, March 23, 2013, 7 AM - 9 PM
Monday, March 24, 2013, 7 AM - 11 AM
Bruin Plaza East and West

All games excluding the Championship game and All Star game, will be played in the Student Activities Center or the John Wooden Center. We are very excited to be able to have our Championship and All Star games in the newly renovated, 136 million dollar Pauley Pavilion. We are also extremely excited to have Dr. Lori Arivso Alvord of the Navajo Nation as our keynote speaker.

Parking is $11 per day on campus. If you have any additional questions please send us an email at aisa.youthconference@gmail.com or call (928) 225-1978.

Hosted by the American Indian Student Association

President Obama Signs VAWA Reauthorization into Law!

President Barack Obama this morning signed into law the reauthorized Violence Against Women Act that includes tribal provisions.

“Previously, tribes had no jurisdiction over non-tribal members, even if they are married to Native women or reside on native lands. But as soon as I sign this bill, that ends,” Obama said before the signing.

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Director Angela Riley Selected as a 2013 Distinguished Alumnus of the College of Arts and Sciences from the University of Oklahoma

New Book: Language Planning and Policy in Native America, by Professor Teresa L. McCarty

On February 22, 2012, Director Angela Riley accepted the 2013 Distinguished Alumnus of the College of Arts and Sciences from the University of Oklahoma. Director Riley was one of the four guests of honor at the annual Kaleidoscope Evening, attended by students, faculty, alumni and friends of the college.

"This work is a beautiful testimonial to this historic time when Native American communities are taking control of their own linguistic futures"
Leanne Hinton, University of California at Berkeley, USA

Author Information
Teresa L. McCarty is the George F. Kneller Chair in Education and Anthropology at the University of California, Los Angeles, and the Alice Wiley Snell Professor Emerita of Education Policy Studies at Arizona State University.

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UCLA Today: Website draws together speakers of endangered indigenous languages

Event: Critical Race Studies Annual Symposium

Professor David Delgado Shorter talks about his website, Wiki for Indigenous Languages (WIL) with UCLA Today.

“To keep endangered languages spoken by indigenous people alive and vibrant, a professor of world arts and cultures has set up a UCLA user-driven website where speakers of languages that could go extinct can contribute to a working dictionary, chat, post audio and video clips, play word games and create a language-learning workbook.”

Friday, March 8, 2013 (9 am - 5 pm)
UCLA School of Law

Established in 2007, through a collaboration of CRS students and faculty, the CRS Symposium is the signature event of the UCLA School of Law's Critical Race Studies Program.  The purpose of the event is to foreground the most innovative ideas and strategies to end racial injustice, to promote learning and collaboration across disciplines, and to integrate racial justice theory and practice. 

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Event: At the Crossroads: Medicine and Culture in Latin America

Save the Date: The Poaching of Our Wildest Dreams: Indigenous Peoples, Predation and the Law

Friday, March 8, 2013
8:30 AM to 12:30 PM
Young Research Library, Room 11360
North Campus, UCLA

RSVP HERE

This symposium will present research which explores the intersection between culture and medicine among indigenous communities in Mexico, Central and South America. Join us for an inspiring morning of presentations by anthropologists and clinicians about traditional medicine beliefs and practices, and access to Westernized health care in Latin America.

Thursday, April 25, 2013
4:00 – 5:30 PM

The Poaching of Our Wildest Dreams: Indigenous Peoples, Predation and the Law
Presented by Julian Aguon

Part of the UCLA Environmental Justice Initiative

UCLA Today: Website draws together speakers of endangered indigenous languages

Event: Critical Race Studies Annual Symposium

Professor David Delgado Shorter talks about his website, Wiki for Indigenous Languages (WIL) with UCLA Today.

“To keep endangered languages spoken by indigenous people alive and vibrant, a professor of world arts and cultures has set up a UCLA user-driven website where speakers of languages that could go extinct can contribute to a working dictionary, chat, post audio and video clips, play word games and create a language-learning workbook.”

Friday, March 8, 2013 (9 am - 5 pm)
UCLA School of Law

Established in 2007, through a collaboration of CRS students and faculty, the CRS Symposium is the signature event of the UCLA School of Law's Critical Race Studies Program.  The purpose of the event is to foreground the most innovative ideas and strategies to end racial injustice, to promote learning and collaboration across disciplines, and to integrate racial justice theory and practice. 

Register or Donate now

Save the Date: The Making of Saint Kateri - The First American Indian Saint of the Catholic Church

Save the Date: Professor Mishuana Goeman’s Book Event

Saturday, April 27, 2013
11 AM – 1 PM
American Indian Families Partnership
5809 N. Figueroa Street, Los Angeles 90042
Lunch will be provided. RSVP to 323-274-1070

On Sunday, October 21, 2012,  Catherine “Kateri” Tekakwitha, became the first American Indian to be canonized  a saint of the Catholic Church. Who was Kateri and what significance does her sainthood hold for American  Indian Christians today?

Please join Clementine  Bordeaux and Rebecca Rosser for a discussion of this historic event. Rebecca  will give a brief overview of Tekakwitha’s life, and Clementine will present  photographs and screen clips from the video diary she is making of the  canonization.

Thursday, May 23, 2013
5:00 – 7:00 PM
Location TBA

Join us for a discussion by Professor Mishuana Goeman on her new book, Mark My Words: Native Women (Re)mapping Our Nations.

Other News and Events

Calling All Los Angeles Native Americans to Represent!

The American Indian Community Council has secured an official water station at the 2013 Los Angeles Marathon on Sunday, March 17.
Planning meetings will be held on March 7 at 6-7pm and March 16, 2:30-3:30 pm at Torres Martinez Tribal TANF Commerce Office.

UCLA Summer Sessions: Native Americans in Film and Video

Institute of American Cultures 2013‐2014 Fellowships & Grants information

Sessions A | June 24 to August 2 | Tues Thurs 5 - 8pm
Location: Physics and Astronomy 2748

This course will look at Native Americans in film from a variety of perspectives. We will discuss indigenous filmmaking as a distinct social practice in relation to Hollywood and explore themes such as images of violence, Indian women, and Native American humor. Finally, we will look at how the movies’ style and techniques impact Native American images today.

The IAC has made funds available annually through its visiting scholar and fellowship programs and its research grants.

IAC visiting scholar/researcher and graduate/predoctoral fellowships are competitive awards that support scholarship on African Americans, American Indians, Asian Americans, and Chicanas/os.

• 2013‐2014 Research Grant Program in Ethnic Studies
• 2013‐2014 Visiting Scholar/Researcher Fellowship Program in Ethnic Studies
• 2013‐2014 Graduate and Predoctoral Fellowship Program in Ethnic Studies

For more information, visit the Institute of American Cultures website.

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