Spring 2006 Newsletter
Vol. XIII No.3 |
7th Annual American Indian Studies Consortium - ASU
Once again, American Indian Studies at Arizona State University, hosts its
annual conference, which is co-sponsored by the Labriola Native American Indian
Data Center and Women and Gender Studies Program, on February 15-16, 2006,
Memorial Union, ASU.
Registration/program information is at www.asu.edu/clas/americanindian/
The program is entitled, “Indigenous Nations and the Academy: The Dynamics
of Indigenous Scholarship and Thought in Defending and Protecting our Lands,
Languages, Tribal Nations and Cultures. ” Taiaiake Alfred (Mohawk) and
Andrea Smith (Cherokee) are the featured.
speakers.
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Andrea Smith was nominated for the Nobel Peace Prize in 2005
by the Swiss organization, 1000 Women. She is Assistant Professor in Native
American Studies and in Women’s Studies at the University of Michigan,
and author of Conquest: Sexual Violence and American Indian Genocide |
.Alfred holds a Canada Research Chair and is Professor in the Indigenous Governance
Programs and in the Department of Political Science at the University of Victoria.
In addition to being an award-winning columnist, he is author of Peace, Power,
Righteousness: An Indigenous Manifesto.
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Other noted speakers are Donald Fixico (Sac and Fox Nation, Oklahoma),
Distinguished Foundation Professor of History, ASU; Elizabeth Cook-Lynn
(Crow Creek Sioux), Professor Emerita of English and Native Studies at
Eastern Washington University, and visiting professor at ASU; and the
Hon. Vivian Juan-Saunders, the first elected Chairperson of the Tohono
O’odham Nation.
Honorable Vivian Juan-Saunders |
“Snowbowl Effect” to be Featured at Labriola Reception
The Labriola Center invites participants to a reception on Wednesday, February15
at 4:30. Screening of the “Snowbowl Effect: When Recreation & Culture
Collide,” will follow about 5:30.
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The San Francisco Peaks in Northern Arizona, location
of the film, are held sacred by 13 American Indian Tribes. These nations
have revered “the peaks” as the home of their deities, a
place to gather special herbs, a place of emergence, and for tribes like
the Navajo and Hopi, this mountain is deeply rooted in essence of their
ways of life.
In spite of strong tribal opposition, the San Francisco Peaks have
endured a history of development. The Snowbowl Effect explores the controversy
surrounding the recently proposed ski resort expansion and snow making
with wastewater. Concerned citizens discuss the issues: sacred lands
protection; public health concerns associated with groundbreaking studies
on wastewater; economic misconceptions; threats to the environment; global
warming; and a small community caught in the conflict. |
American Indian Policy Center at ASU
One year ago, more than 25 American Indian faculty, staff, and local community
leaders gathered at Gila River Community to discuss plans for creating an American
Indian Policy Center at Arizona State University. It was the culmination of
discussions begun in the spring of 1997.
The group strategized on everything from the purpose and proposed activities
of the Policy Center to avoiding duplication of services already established
at peer institutions.
The initiative has the support of ASU President, Dr. Michael Crow, and will
incorporate trans-disciplinary involvement from all three campuses and will
reflect the needs described by tribal communities in Arizona and eventually
nationwide. Proposed Activities are:
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Serve as a clearinghouse for American Indian initiatives involving ASU
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Community-based-work–policy development, Education, Cultural Preservation
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Research tribes’ needs and design programs to respond to those needs
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Provide answers to the tribes
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Focus on intergovernmental relationships and policy makers
At a Special Session of the CLAS Senate held Friday, November 4, 2005, the
Senate unanimously approved the American Indian Policy and Leadership Center
proposal, which will go to the Arizona Board of Regents in February. The
Center is currently recruiting and interviewing for a director and a coordinator.
The College of Law, Indian Legal Program, will temporarily house the offices.
“The Center will have important implications for the quality of life, culture,
economic development, jurisdictional considerations, and other significant areas
of concern to tribes,” according to Dr. Eddie F. Brown, Director of American
Indian Studies. (From: American Indian Studies Newsletter, Fall 2005, Volume
6, Issue 1).
TallBear Joins Indian Studies Faculty
Kim TallBear (Sisseton-Wahpeton Oyate), will be introducing the study of
American Indian justice issues (AIS 180) from an inter disciplinary perspective
during the spring semester. Primary topics include sovereignty, law, and
culture.
The University of California, Santa Cruz awarded her PhD in History of Consciousness
in December 2005. In addition, TallBear holds a Master’s degree from
the Department of Urban Studies and Planning at M.I.T., and B.A. in Community
Planning from the University of
Massachusetts, Boston. Her dissertation is entitled, “Native American
DNA: Narratives of Origin and Race.”
Dr. TallBear has previously worked for a number of federal agencies, national
tribal organizations, and has consulted on tribal environmental program initiatives.
She currently is a member of the editorial panel of the British-based journal,
Science as Culture.
The Center Celebrates New Donors
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Ms. Scarlett LaFroth of Virginia, has presented the Labriola
Center with The Coyote Cycle, a suite of seven woodcuts by California
artist, Daniel Owen Stolpe. Included are excerpts from seven plays written
by playwright, Murray Mednick, which are based on Winnebago legends.
These excerpts are printed to the left of the images. When open, the
full page measures 31 x 48 inches. Loose signatures are contained inside
a folded slip case. The woodcuts are printed on unryu rice paper, and
the text is silk screened on arches cover. The edition is number 34 of
35 produced.
The seven play outdoor theatrical experience, based on Native American myths,
was produced at the Padua Hills Playwrights’ Festival in Pomona in 1978,
and again at the Paramount Ranch, Agoura, California in 1985. The work is a fine
addition to the Center’s growing collection of Native American Theatre. |
Ms. Carolyn Niethammer of Tucson, Arizona, has donated the research materials
for her biography on Annie Wauneka, I’ll Go and Do More Annie Dodge
Wauneka, Navajo Leader and Activist (University of Nebraska Press, 2001).
The organization,
Women Writing the West, honored the book with a prestigious Willa Award that
same year.
The collection includes numerous oral interviews, copies of testimony on
Navajo affairs to the U. Senate, and materials dealing with the Presidential
Medal
of Freedom, which was to be awarded to Wauneka by President John F. Kennedy.
In part, Wauneka’s telegraphic reply to the President on July 2, 1963,
read: “. . .It is with deep humility and gratefulness that this great
honor has come to me. It has always been my duty to serve our great country
and my people and I am deeply appreciative of the recognition you have bestowed
on me . . .”
A Children’s version of the Wauneka biography is being published by
Salina Press, Flagstaff, Arizona.
Arizona Archives Online
It is now possible for researchers to study at home and print out the Finding
Guides describing the contents of processed collections in Arizona State
University, University of Arizona, and Northern Arizona University, the Center
for Creative
Photography and Arizona State Museum in Tucson, and the Northern Division
of the Arizona Historical Society.
Labriola Collection guides on line are: Dr. Peterson Zah, formerly president
of the Navajo Nation and assistant to ASU President, Michael Crow; Peter
Iverson, Regents Professor of History at ASU: Anthropologist, Kenneth Stuart:
educator,
Wayne Pratt; Carol Ruppé’s Mesquakie Collection; Dorothy Parker’s
Phoenix Indian School research papers; the 1903 correspondence of Dr. Kenneth
Newton from the Navajo Training School; and the1940s photographs ands papers
of teacher C.F. Shaffer and his wife from the Havasupai reservation at the
bottom of the Grand Canyon. More collections will be added. See:
http://aao.lib.asu.edu/index.html
Arizona Highways to Publish Kalambakal Article
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ASU graduate history student, Vickey Kalambakal, worked
in the Labriola Center during fall and spring semesters in 2002, and
became interested in the Augustine Schwarz, O.F.M. photograph collection.
As soon as the collection was processed and online, she wrote an article
about the priest’s Arizona adventures between 1916 an 1940.
Her article, illustrated with photographs from the collection will appear in
the March issue, 2006. |
Look for “Shoozey: The Photographer Priest.” Father
Schwarz’ collection, titled, Mission to Arizona, 1916-1940: Father Augustine
Schwarz, O.F.M., is online at:
http://www.asu.edu/lib/archives/schwarz/
Labriola Center to Supervise Student Internship from the University of Arizona
The School of Information Resources and Information Science at the University
of Arizona hopes to strengthen ties to the library community in Arizona and
help their professional colleagues with their special projects by offering
internships to its students.
In particular, the program is to provide students with the academic challenge
of field-based projects or problem in which they can utilize the knowledge
and skills acquired during their SIRLS program of study. Internships are
to be project-or problem-based and emphasize the use of both practical and
theoretical
knowledge and skills.
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The Center is delighted to work with Melanie Toledo, Master’s
student from the SIRLS program during the spring semester. Melanie will
learn about archival collections by processing Carolyn Niethammer’s
collection (mentioned above), and working with the Robert Ramsey photo
collection from Sacaton on the Gila River Community,. In addition, she
will prepare one or two subject guides dealing with aspects of the Center’s
collection, geared specifically to guide students to books, ephemera,
and primary source materials. |
Curators’ October Meeting In Labriola Center
Curators of American Indian Collections met in the Labriola Center on October
13, 2005 to exchange ideas and view a slide presentation by clay artist,
Rosemary Apple Blossom Lonewolf, and later to visit the Heard Museum’s
newest exhibit, HOME.
In attendance were: Peter Blodgett, Huntington Library; Theresa Salazar,
Bancroft Library; Ann Massman, South west Collection, University of New Mexico;
Jennifer
Brathovde, Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs; Steve Sturgeon, Utah
State University; Eunice Kahn, Navajo Nation Museum; John Hoover, St. Louis
Mercantile; Alice Cornell, University of Cincinnati; Paul Wormser, NARA,
Laguna Niguel; Nicole Bouche, University of Washington; Leslie Shores and
Tamsen Hert
from the University of Wyoming; and Mario Nick Klimiades of the Heard Museum.
Alice Cornell and Patricia Etter compiled a keepsake, Invitation to Research, which highlights American Indian collections from the above universities
and other western repositories. Included is a Webliography, an extensive
list of
sites featuring American Indian collections. A print out is available by
contacting the Labriola Center.
