American Indian Fall Convocation

December 17, 2009

4pm - Neeb Hall - Tempe Campus

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Upcoming Career Events and Workshops - ASU Career Services

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Explore Graduate School Seminars

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National Graduate Fellowships Workshops (See Schedule)

The Graduate College and the Office of National Scholarships in Barrett the Honors College sponsor workshops for students interested in applying for the Javits, National Science Foundation, Ford, and Harriett Jenkins (NASA) 3-year graduate fellowships. These workshops are designed for graduating seniors, first- and second-year graduate students. Faculty mentors are also welcome to attend the workshops. Graduate students who have successfully competed for these awards in the past and some of their faculty mentors will be available at these workshops to talk about the proposal process and answer questions.

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ASU Graduate College Article: “A Chance to Succeed, a Desire to Serve”

Read complete article here: http://graduate.asu.edu/files/pdfs/AIGarticle.pdf

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American Indian Student Support Services (AISSS) 2009 Calendar

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SAVE THE DATE!

10th Annual Native American Children’s Christmas Benefit Concert
When: Saturday, December 5th, 6-10 pm
Where: Arizona State University, Memorial Union, Ventana Room 241, Tempe, AZ

The Benefit Concert is a community effort for the past nine years led by the Phoenix Native American community. Donated toys and clothing goes to homeless or indigent Native American children. The Concert is more than an evening of music... it's about giving and sharing. It's also about community building and empowerment. All musicians donate their time, the lighting & sound equipment has been donated, and many hours of volunteer time. This is truly a community event. Come out to enjoy good music and donate a toy or clothing.

• Music line-up TBA
• At Arizona State University: If you are not able to attend the Benefit Concert and wish to donate, please drop off items at the AISSS Computer Lab, Room 320, Discovery Hall (Physical Address: 250 E. Lemon Street, Discovery Hall (Bldg 44), Tempe, AZ).

Thank you to our Communities, see you soon.

randy kemp
Choctaw/Euchee/Muscogee-Creek\

For further inquiries please contact: randy.kemp@asu.edu / www.randykemp.com

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9.01.09:

1st MIASU Meeting!
ASU Student Club/Group Meeting
Host: MIASU COMMITTEE
Tuesday, September 1, 7:00pm-8:00pm
COOR HALL (L1-10), Tempe Campus

9.02.09:

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Procter & Gamble (flyer here)

Is hosting a Student Meet & Greet and Information Session on

 Wednesday, September 2nd, 2009

5:00 – 6:30 PM : Memorial Union #226 Graham

P&G representatives are visiting ASU (Tempe Campus) and would like to get to know you.  Native American students (undergraduate and graduate) majoring/working in the fields of engineering (mechanical, chemical, etc.) and business (marketing, finance, supply chain management, etc.) are strongly encouraged to attend.

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ASU American Indian Council's (AIC) First General Meeting

Wednesday September 2, 2009
on the Third Floor of the MU in the AIC Office
from 5:00pm-7:00pm

9.03.09:

"Studying Abroad on NSEP/Fulbright"

Presented by the staff of the ASU Melikian Center

  in cooperation with Dr. Janet Burke, Director, ASU Office of National Scholarship Advisement

Thursday, September 3, 2009 at 1:00 pm

ASU Tempe Campus, Coor Hall, Room 4403

Open and free to the public

For more information:  480-965-4188 and http://melikian.asu.edu/event/20090903_NSEP/Fulbright

How to: • Choose a grant program • Create a realistic budget • Write a winning proposal • Meet language requirements • Prepare for life overseas

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American Indian Graduate Student BBQ

6pm - Discovery Hall 313

9.04.09:

NATIONS KEEP

Sept. 4-5

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Labor Day - University Closed

9.08.09:

Native Connections at ASU

4-6pm

Memorial Union (MU) Turquoise Room

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Sustainable Cities Network Valleywide Meeting
Wednesday, September 16, 2009
8:30 am to 4:30 pm
Lunch will be provided.

ASU Memorial Union, Turquoise Room, Tempe Campus

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COMMUNITY

The American Indian Language Development Institute invites submissions

for a publication celebrating thirty years of Indigenous language education, revitalization, and promotion.

Page Limit: Please limit submissions to no more than 5000 words, including references

Submission Deadline: all submissions must be received by September 4, 2009, to be considered for publication

Submit To: please email all submissions to Candace Galla.

Format: Please submit in Word format. In addition, if you are using custom fonts, keyboards, diacritics, etc please submit in PDF format as well.

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Navajo Nation Human Rights Commission

September 3rd & 4th, 2009

Navajo Nation Human Rights Commission, was recently formed to hear cases of discrimination in the border towns of Farmington, Gallup, Page, Flagstaff, Winslow and Holbrook.

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ATUIE Meeting

Arizona Tri-Universities for Indian Education (ATUIE) Meeting

Thursday, September 10, 2009

8:30 a.m. - 3:00 p.m.

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16th Annual Freedom in Sobriety - Hopi Rez Camp Out

Sept. 11-13, 2009

Polacca, AZ

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NAVAJO NATION FAIR - "Yesterday's Artisans for the Future Generations"

September 6-13, 2009, Window Rock, AZ

For Fair information and schedule go to:

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2009 Governor Housing Forum

sponsored by the Arizona Department of Housing (ADOH)

"Gearing Up For The Future"

The Buttes Marriott | Tempe, AZ

September 14-16, 2009

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Tohono O'odham Community College Career/Opportunity Fair

Tuesday, September 15, 2009 from 10:00 a.m. – 2:00 p.m.

Recreation Center in Sells, Arizona

Hosted by Tohono O’odham Community College -Nations Scholarship Program

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Annual Native American and Veterans Business Conference Trade Show
September 15-16, 2009

For additional information or to register for the conference and trade show, contact Daucey Brewington, United Indians of all Tribes Foundation PTAC Program Manager, at (206) 213-0348 or dbrewington@unitedindians.org. Also, consider making a couple days out of it in Seattle and the Great Northwest by joining us downtown on the day of September 15, 2009, for our Picture This! tribal economic development seminar. For more information, click here.

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INPRO 2009 34th Annual Indian Progress in Business Event

featuring the First American Leadership Awards "Celebrating Achievement at the Crossroads of Indian Country"
September 16 - 18, 2009 Crowne Plaza Hotel Tulsa - Downtown Tulsa, Oklahoma

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MICHIGAN INDIAN DAY EVENT 2009
“Historical Trauma: The Resultant Impact of the
U.S. Bureau of Indian Affairs (BIA) Boarding Schools
on the Lives of American Indians & Their Communities”
Friday, September 25, 2009
8:15 AM-5:00 PM • Union Ballroom, Second Floor • Michigan State University

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Take Charge! - Native American Leadership Today Conference

September 25, 2009 at the Desert Willow Conference Center in Phoenix, Arizona,

Call for proposals has been extended to August 28, 2009

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Southwest Research and Information Center (SRIC)Fundraising Concert
featuring an all Dine' lineup of performers:
Indigie Femme, Fenders II, and Flutist Andrew Thomas

Friday, September 25, 2009, 6:30-9pm at the Outpost Performance Space
210 Yale SE (2 blocks south of Central), Albuquerque, NM. 
Admission is $10, children under 12 are free.

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ASU Global Warming

Saturday, September 26, 2009

100 participants from Phoenix metro are required to participate. Over 45 countries including 6 sites in USA are participating and is being coordinated from Denmark. The idea is for ordinary residents around the world to have a voice in the recommendations in global warming treaty that is being negotiated by US and other governments and the United Nations in Copenhagen in December, 2009. CSPO http://www.cspo.org/

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The Seven Generations Awards Dinner & Silent Auction

By the Native American Bar Association of Arizona

Saturday, September 26, 2009

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The Hopi Foundation Conference for Treatment of Trauma

October 2-3, 2009
This is the first ever conference of this kind and it will be hosted in conjunction with our international Barbara Chester Award Ceremony on October 3rd in Flagstaff, AZ. For more information on our conference and our award celebration, please visit us at www.barbarachesteraward.org. The conference is sponsored by The Hopi Foundation.

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10th annual technology conference for the Native American industry

10/5/09 - 10/8/09
Suncoast Casino & Hotel • Las Vegas, NV

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Thursday, October 8th

Meet-the-author event and book signing with Leslie Marmon Silko in

Author Talk and Book Signing, 10:00 a.m., Labriola Center, 2nd flr, Hayden Library (LIB) ASU, Tempe campus

Host: Labriola National American Indian Data Center

Honoring Reception, 3:00 p.m., West Hall 135 (WHALL 135) ASU, Tempe campus
Host: Women and Gender Studies Program

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The Simon Ortiz and Labriola Center Lecture on Indigenous Land, Culture, and Community presents

SPEND “AN EVENING WITH LESLIE MARMON SILKO” AT THE HEARD MUSEUM

Heard Museum, ASU Partner to Host Lecture by Best-Selling Native Author

7:00 p.m.: Reading & Audience Discussion | 8:00 p.m.: Book Signing

Heard Museum Downtown 2301 N. Central Avenue (Central & Encanto) Phoenix, AZ 85004 
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27th Annual NATIVE AMERICAN CONNECTIONS PARADE

on THIRD STREET in Downtown Phoenix!
October 10th - Parade begins at 9:00 AM on 3rd Street & Oak, and will continue North along 3rd street
ending at Steele Indian School Park.

Share in rich cultural heritage as tribes from all over the Southwest showcase their
traditional songs and dances on the parade route through downtown Phoenix. Then join
us afterward for a Pow Wow at the softball field at Central High School, hosted by their
Native American Youth Council.

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48th Annual Miss Indian Arizona Scholarship Program
Native Women - Keepers of Our Culture
Saturday, October 10, 2009
Mesa Arts Center - 1 E. Main Street - Mesa, Arizona

for more information, please call 480.306.4533 or visit www.missindianarizona.com

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Discover Navajo Photo Contest (Flyer Here)

There is NO entry fee. The deadline for entries and voting is October 15, 2009

See Rules & Regs and Model Release Form

Kathie Curley, Marketing Coordinator - Navajo Tourism
P.O. Box 663, Window Rock, AZ 86515
928/810-8504 Fax: 928/810-8500
www.discovernavajo.com

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NATIONAL CONGRESS OF AMERICAN INDIANS (NCAI)
66th Annual Convention & Trade Show
October 11 - 16, 2009
Palm Springs Convention Center
Palm Springs, CA

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AUTHOR SHERMAN ALEXIE DURING THIRD FRIDAY SERIES NU
Acclaimed Author Will Discuss New Book War Dances

Brought to you by CHANGING HANDS BOOKSTORE & HEARD MUSEUM PRESENT

Friday, October 16, 5:30 to 9 p.m. : Sherman Alexie presentation 6 p.m.

Heard Museum, 2301 North Central Avenue, Phoenix, Ariz. - COST: $7 for speaker, event admission is free.

For more information, call the Heard Museum at 602.252.8848, Changing Hands Bookstore at 480.730.0205 or visit www.heard.org/NU.

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Answering the Call: Veteran’s Day Short Film Contest

We are looking for short films (four minutes of less) about Native American Veterans that illustrate what participation in the military means to Native people. We are looking for all types of non-fiction films—documentary, experimental, animation, etc. Films selected will be shown on Veteran’s Day for a special program in our museum. First Prize $500 - Second & Third Prizes: NMAI Pendleton Blanket - Entries must be received by October 18, 2009.

If you have any questions regarding this Contest, please contact Sierra Ornelas, National Museum of the American Indian, at 202-633-6695 or email ornelass@si.edu. Presented by The National Museum of the American Indian Media Initiatives.

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Navajo Transportation Conference

October 27-29, 2009 - Mesa, AZ

Early bird registration ends September 18th

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Mesa Public School's Native American Education Program

2nd annual Native American College Fair Night for our 9th-12th grade Native American students

Thursday, November 5th from 6PM-8PM

*ASU Present

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1st Annual IHS Adolescent Health Conference
November 13-14, 2009
Navajo Nation Museum – Window Rock, AZ

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5th Annual American Indian Heritage Festival
November 21, 2009
10 am – 3pm
Admission is Free - ASU & Deer Valley Rock Art Center
This is a 2009 NARD (Native American Recognition Days) event. Bring the family and enjoy the festival!

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2nd Annual Renewable Energy Projects in Indian Country

December 7-9, 2009

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14th Annual Native American Grant School Association Conference

“Our Children Excel and Succeed When Communities Care”

December 10-12, 2009

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52nd Annual Conference of the Western Social Science Association (WSSA)

The conference will be at the Grand Sierra Resort in Reno, Nevada April 14 – 17, 2010. 

The WSSA website (http://wssa.asu.edu/) contains an introduction to the Association and useful information.

Proposals for papers and panels are due to us by December 1, 2009.

          The Vine Deloria, Jr. Student paper award will also be given at this conference. 

Further, we hope you will encourage your students to consider attending this conference.

Letter of Invite

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Native American & Indigenous Studies Association (NAISA)

May 20-22, 2010

University of Arizona - American Indian Studies

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