Campus Events

On Monday, October 13^th, the University of Idaho Native American Student Center will be hosting Charmaine White Face (Oglala Band of the Tetuwin Oceti Sakowin). The event will be held at 7pm in the Aurora Room (4^th floor) of the Commons. Charmaine’s lecture will cover the meaning of Columbus Day for American Indians and the negative impact his arrival has had on the Indigenous peoples and the eco-system. The event is free.

Charmaine is an Native American activist from the Pine Ridge Indian Reservation in South Dakota and is the founder of the Defender of the Black Hills (http://www.defendblackhills.org/). Her current work seeks to recognize the legality of treaties made between Native American nations and the US, and the protection and restoration of the environment, particularly the Upper Great Plains area. In Nov. 2007, Defenders was awarded the International Nuclear Free Future Award in the category of Resistance in Salzburg, Austria, only 1 of 3 awards that are given worldwide.

On Oct. 30, at 7:00 pm, in the SUB's Gold Room LECTURE: NATIVE SEATTLE

Coll Thrush will be giving the lecture "From Native Seattle to First Nations Vancouver to Aboriginal London: Notes on a New Global Urban Indigenous History."

His book, NATIVE SEATTLE, has just won the Washington State Book Award for best 2007 book in History/Biography.

Exploring the Inextricable Link Between Urban and Native History

Pacific Northwest Studies Lecture Series presents Coll Thrush

MOSCOW, Idaho – Even though Vancouver, B.C., and Seattle, Wash., are in very different national and legal contexts, Coll Thrush believes the ways in which the two cities remember – or more accurately, forget – their colonial pasts are really similar.

“Both cities sell themselves with 'Indian' imagery, even as real Indigenous people in the cities struggle to be heard and seen,” explained Thrush, an aboriginal, environmental and cultural historian.

Thrush will present “From Native Seattle to First Nations Vancouver to Aboriginal London: Notes on a New Global Urban Indigenous History” for the University of Idaho's Institute for Pacific Northwest Studies Lecture Series at 7 p.m., Thursday, Oct. 30.

“Coll Thrush is at the cutting edge of indigenous and urban history,” said Adam Sowards, environmental historian, assistant professor of history and director of Institute for Pacific Northwest Studies at the University of Idaho. “He is a creative scholar, outstanding writer, and dynamic speaker. Anyone interested in Native history and colonialism, from the Northwest to London, will learn a great deal from Thrush’s insights.”

Last year, Thrush published “Native Seattle: Histories from the Crossing-Over Place,” in which he argued that rather than being mutually exclusive, urban and Native American histories are inextricably linked. “Native Seattle” earned the 2007 Washington State Book Award for History/Biography.

In this lecture, he will share insights from his time in Vancouver – a city whose history, in its similarities to Seattle’s, sheds light on the similarities and differences in colonialism across national borders on the Northwest Coast.

His Pacific Northwest Studies Lecture also will touch on his new research, which reframes the history of London, England, through the experiences of Indigenous men and women who traveled there in the 15th through 20th centuries. Along the way, he will ask whether it is possible to construct Indigenous histories that are both ethical and expansive, both relevant to Indigenous communities today and engaged with large-scale histories of empire and globalization.

Thrush teaches indigenous history courses at the University of British Columbia and holds a doctoral degree from the University of Washington. In addition to his new work on the Indigenous history of London, Thrush currently is writing “Consuming Encounters: Native and Newcomer Food Histories on the Northwest Coast.”

For more information on this event, or to schedule an interview with Thrush, contact Sowards at asowards@uidaho.edu

FOR NATIVE AMERICAN HERITAGE MONTH:

Thursday, November 6

Native American Menu
Bob’s Place in Wallace, 4:30pm-7:00pm

Monday, November 10

Native American movie: Running Brave
SUB Silver Room, 7pm

Tuesday, November 11

Powwow Presentation
Featuring Sam Torpey and Rudy Shebala
SUB Silver Room, 7pm

Wednesday, November 12

Native American Beading
Presented by Steven Martin
NASC, 6pm

Friday, November 14

SOUP FRIDAY: Frybread Contest
NASC 12pm

Tuesday, November 18

American Indian Studies Program
Ninth Annual Distinguished American Indian Speaker’s Series
Keynote: Angelique Eagle Woman
College of Law Court Room, 6pm

Wednesday, November 19-20

Amerian Indian Student Development Conference
SUB Silver-Gold Room
Registration check-in @ 8am on both days

Tuesday November 18th in the College of Law Court Room on the University of Idaho campus, Moscow, beginning at 6:00 p.m.

Ninth Annual Distinguished American Indian Speaker's Series

"Fencing off the Eagle and the Condor, Border Politics, and Indigenous Peoples"

   Angelique EagleWoman

Keynote Presenter:  Angelique EagleWoman (Wambdi A. WasteWin)

For hundreds of thousands of years, indigenous peoples of the Western Hemisphere have been in contact and relationship with each other. North America and Central America have a linked and related history. Indigenous peoples in North America commonly look to the eagle as a symbol and those of Central and South America refer to the condor. During European exploitation, colonization and settlement of the Western Hemisphere, indigenous peoples of Western Hemisphere have endured much to preserve culture, spirituality, language, and relationship across newly constructed borders. Since the 1970s, there has been a renewed effort for the indigenous peoples of the Western Hemisphere to join together in asserting human rights, cultural rights, sovereignty for their peoples, and to renew their common bonds. Obstacles still remain to be overcome. The latest U.S. Homeland Security measure to construct a 700 mile border wall separating the U.S. claimed boundary from the Mexico claimed boundary represents another such obstacle facing indigenous peoples in the last few years. By drawing upon international legal principles, the Eagle and the Condor have avenues to meet on-going obstacles that seek to divide the indigenous peoples of this hemisphere.

Angelique EagleWoman (Wambdi A. WasteWin) is a citizen of the Sisseton-Wahpeton Dakota Oyate and an Associate Professor of Law at the University of Idaho College of Law. She is also the James E. Rogers Fellow in American Indian Law at the law school. Professor EagleWoman has a diverse background that includes tribal economic development, legal code development, litigation, criminal law and scholarly interest in international indigenous law to her work at the University of Idaho Law. She teaches in the areas of Native American Law, Native Natural Resources Law and Civil Procedure.

Following Angelique's talk, there will be a question and answer session. And join us in a reception following the talk.

Sponsorship: This speaking engagement is being sponsored by the American Indian Studies Program of the University of Idaho.

This session is free and open to the public. All are welcome.

November 19-20: American Indian Student Development Conference, SUB Ballroom

The Native American Student Center at the University of Idaho will be hosting the American Indian Student Development Conference on November 19-20, 2008. The event will be held at the University of Idaho Student Union Ballroom.

This mini conference is an opportunity to dialogue about the current and future methods of Native American student support structures across the country. Further, new culturally relevant strategies and models of support for Native American students will be demonstrated for participants to learn and develop. This conference is for anyone who seeks to develop or continue to enhance systems of support for Native American students at the higher education level.

Native American professionals in higher education from across the country will be present to share their knowledge covering several important topics. These professionals have tremendous experience and demonstrate great commitment to Native American college students.

Follow the link below to register: there is a registration fee of $50; there is NO charge for college students, but they must present a college ID at the door. All college students must register (for attendance numbers and food purposes). If you are interested in attending, please mail in the registration form and the $50 fee to the given address or apply on line. Both the physical address and the online address is given on the registration form. For college students planning to register online, they can skip the payment part of the process and submit their form. Once we receive your registration information, we will mail out parking maps and permits.

Steven Martin
Director for the Native American Student Center
University of Idaho
PO Box 443030
Moscow, ID 83844-3030
Ph. 208-885-4237
Fax 208-885-7917

Conference Agenda            Speaker Bios          Registration Form

UI Tribal Liaison's website:

http://www.students.uidaho.edu/Camp/AmericanIndianStudentConferenceRegistration