Upcoming Events (Summer 2011)

ISN PROGRAM AT APSA 2011 in Seattle, WA, September 1-4, 2011

The Indigenous Studies Network (ISN) is putting on two panels and holding a business meeting/networking session at the 2011 American Political Science Association (APSA) Annual Meeting in Seattle, WA from September 1-4, 2011. For more information contact Anne Boxberger Flaherty, aflaher@siue.edu (Southern Illinois University, Edwardsville) or 
Sheryl Lightfoot, sheryl.lightfoot@ubc.ca (University of British Columbia). More information about the APSA meeting, including the full program, can be found at: http://www.apsanet.org/. Locations of sessions are only available on line to those reregistered for the meeting, but for all others are available in the printed program available at on site meeting registration.

ISN Panel 1, Laws, Organizations, and Indigenous Peoples' Rights, Friday, Sep 2, 2011, 8:00 AM-9:45 AM

Papers: Shane D. Day, Indiana University, Bloomington, shday@indiana.edu & Sarabeth Anderson, Grand View College, sanderson@gvc.edu, "Determinants of Successful American Indian Resistance to the Establishment of State Government Jurisdiction under Public Law 280: A Comparative Case Study of the Processes of Exemption and Retrocession."

Sheryl R. Lightfoot, University of British Columbia, sheryl.lightfoot@ubc.ca, "Endorsement, Not Implementation: Indigenous Rights in the Anglosphere."

Jan LŸdert, University of British Columbia, luedert@interchange.ubc.ca, "Inventing the Indigenous: The International Labor Organization and Indigenous Peoples."

Fiona MacDonald, University of Manitoba, macdonaf@cc.umanitoba.ca, "Public opinion, Framing, and Strategy for Indigenous Justice: What is the Role of Public Will?."

Elisa Ruozzi, University of Turin, elisa.ruozzi@gmail.com, "Indigenous Rights and International Human Rights Courts : Between Specificity and Circulation of Principles."

Discussant: Anne FB Flaherty, Southern Illinois University at Edwardsville, aflaher@siue.edu.

ISN Panel 2, Theorizing Settler-Colonialism, Friday, Sep 2, 2011, 10:15 AM-12:00 PM

Chairs: Dory Nason, University of British Columbia, dnason@interchange.ubc.ca & Paula Mohan, paulamohan@gmail.com

Papers: Glen S. Coulthard, University of British Columbia, gsc@interchange.ubc.ca, "Resentment and Indigenous Anti-Colonialism."

Robert Nichols, University of Alberta, rnichols@ualberta.ca, "Interrogating Settlement."

Rita Dhamoon, University of the Fraser Valley, Rita.Dhamoon@ufv.ca, "Formations of Settler-Colonialism: Nonwhite migrants, Indigenous peoples, and Settler Nation-Building."

Derek Kornelsen, University of British Columbia, derek.kornelsen@gmail.com, "Circumscribed Spheres of Belonging and Action: Framing Indigenous Self-Determination in Terms of 'Non-Domination'."

Discussants: Kevin M. Bruyneel, Babson College, kbruyneel@babson.edu  & James Simeone

Illinois Wesleyan University, jsimeone@iwu.edu.

ISN Business Meeting and Networking Session: Friday, Sep 2, 2011, 12:15 PM-1:15 PM.

Other Indigenous Panels at APSA:

Theme Panels
 T-36. Theme Panel: Indigenous Peoples and the Discourse of Rights, Saturday, Sep 3, 2011, 2:00 PM-3:45 PM.

Chair & Discussant: Dale Turner, Dartmouth College, dale.turner@dartmouth.edu.

Papers: Heidi Kiiwetinepinesiik Stark, University of Victoria, hstark@d.umn.edu, "Rights or Responsibilities?: The Discourse of Rights in Anishinaabe Treaty-Making."

David E. Wilkins, University of Minnesota, wilkinsd@umn.edu, "Constituting Rights: Tribal Constitutions and the Rights of Non-Member Indians and Non-Indians."

Glen S. Coulthard, University of British Columbia, gsc@interchange.ubc.ca," The Coloniality of Indigenous Rights."

Sheryl R. Lightfoot, University of British Columbia, sheryl.lightfoot@ubc.ca, "The United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples: A Rights Discourse that Complicates the International System."

Race, Ethnicity, and Politics, 
32-5 Indigenous Rights in the Americas, Thursday, Sep 1, 2011, 4:15 PM-6:00 PM.

Papers: Anne FB Flaherty, Southern Illinois University at Edwardsville, aflaher@siue.edu, "The Reasons for Refusal: American Indian Land Claims and Elected Officials in New York State."

Paula Mohan, "Emerging Power Brokers: The Emergence of Energy Sovereignty in Tribal Communities."

Kelly Bauer, George Washington University, kbauer2@gwu.edu, "Indigenous Rights to Land: The Chilean Government's Recent Experience Processing Mapuche Land Requests."

Laura Evans, University of Washington, evansle@uw.edu, "The Strange Career of Federal Indian Policy: Understanding American Indian Activism from the Late 19th Century Forward."

Discussant: Ronald J. Schmidt, California State University, Long Beach, rschmidt@csulb.edu.

Other Indigenous Papers at APSA:

Kyla Reid, University of Sydney, kyla.m.reid@gmail.com, "Against the Right to Self-Determination: Indigenous Governance and International Law;" & Omar Dahbour, Hunter College, City University of New York, odahbour@hunter.cuny.edu, "From Indigenous Rights to Ecosovereignty: Toward a 21st-Century Concept of Self-Determination," on Normative Political Theory,
 3-25, Rights and Culture, Friday, Sep 2, 2011, 4:15 PM-6:00 PM.

Brian Palmer-Rubin, University of California, Berkeley, brianpr@berkeley.edu, "Distinct Paths toward Articulation with the State: Indigenous Organizations in Bolivia and Mexico," on Comparative Politics
 11-67 Exploring Links between Social Movements and the State, Saturday, Sep 3, 2011, 8:00 AM-9:45 AM.

Paul Frymer, Princeton University, pfrymer@princeton.edu, "Law at the Periphery: American Settler Expansion and the Confrontation with Indigenous and European Populations," on Politics and History,
 7-12 Law and Lawlessness: The Production of State Power in Colonial and Early Republican America, Friday, Sep 2, 2011, 8:00 AM-9:45 AM.

Heather L. Hawn, University of South Carolina, instantkarmausc@aol.com, "Does Tourism Matter? The Effects of Tourism and the State on the Political Choices of Indigenous Populations in Three Countries: Guatemala, Mexico and Australia," on Comparative Politics of Developing Countries,
 12-21 Local Politics Across Developing Societies, Saturday, Sep 3, 2011, 4:15 PM-6:00 PM.

Susan M. Appe, SUNY, University at Albany, appesusan@gmail.com, "Rights and Resistance around Ecuador's Civil Society Registry: The Case of Rural and Indigenous Women's Organizations in Chimborazo, Ecuador," on Public Policy,
 25-22, Women's Rights and Public Policy in the Global South, Thursday, Sep 1, 2011, 2:00 PM-3:45 PM.

Todd A Eisenstadt, American University, eisensta@american.edu, "Rural Interest Articulation after Corporatism in Mexico: Indigenous Mobilization Still Does Not Substitute for Citizenship," on Comparative Democratization,
 44-7, State-Society Relations in Democratic Rural Latin America: The Search for New Forms of Interest Representation after the Demise of Corporatism.

Other Indigenous Posters at APSA:

Amanda M. Fulmer, University of Washington, Seattle, amfulmer@u.washington.edu, "The Politics of a Strange Right: Consultation, mining and indigenous mobilization in Latin America," at Poster Session 5: American Politics 1, Friday, Sep 2, 2011, 10:15 AM-12:00 PM.

Thaddieus W. Conner, University of Oklahoma, conner03@ou.edu, Alisa Hicklin Fryar, University of Oklahoma, ahicklin@ou.edu & Tyler Johnson, University of Oklahoma, tylerjohnson@ou.edu, "Sovereign Nations or Minority Populations?: How Information and Ideology Shape Attitudes about Native American Policy," at Poster Session 6: American Politics 2, Friday, Sep 2, 2011, 2:00 PM-3:45 PM.

WSSA 2011 AMERICAN INDIAN STUDIES SECTION PROGRAM, April 11-14, 2012

The American Indian Studies Section of the Western Social Science Association, at its 54^th meeting, expects to again have a full program of panels at the association's meeting at the 2012 conference in Houston, TX, April 11 - April 14, 2012, at the Hyatt Regency Houston. Paper/panel proposals for the American Indian Studies Section can either be submitted on line by going to: http://wssa.asu.edu/, or by sending them (preferably by E-mail) to AIS section coordinator Karen Jarratt-Snider: Karen.Jarratt-Snider@nau.edu. Deadline for proposals, including abstracts, is December 1, 2012. Information, which will eventually include the preliminary program, can be accessed on line at: http://wssa.asu.edu.

A list of Indigenous Language Conferences is kept at the Teaching Indigenous Languages web site at Northern Arizona University: http://www2.nau.edu/jar/Conf.html.

The D'Arcy McNickle Center for American Indian and Indigenous Studies at the Newberry Library, in Chicago, has an on going Newberry Library Seminar in American Indian Studies on many Thursdays, 5:30-6:30 pm, as well as other occasional events. All papers are pre-circulated electronically to those who plan to attend the seminar. E-mail mcnickle@newberry.org or call (312)255-3564 to receive a copy of the paper. For more on this and other events at the Newberry Library go to: http://www.newberry.org/mcnickle/AISSeminar.html. Upcoming seminars are: September 21, 2011, B-91 
Tracing the Jumano 
Mariah de Fatima Wade, University of Texas at Austin; September 28, 2011, B-91 
Transnational Progressives: African Americans, Native Americans, and the Universal Races Congress 
Kyle Mays, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign; October 12, 2011, B-91 
Clans, Lineages, and Ethnic Identity Among the Ottawa (Odawa) of Northern Michigan; 
Wesley L. Andrews, Native American cultural consultant; November 9, 2011, B-91 
Indian Lands and Imperial Authorities: The Seventeenth and Early Eighteenth-Century Ohio River Valley; 
Susan Sleeper-Smith, Michigan State University; November 30, 2011, B-91 
Reimagining Cherokee Identity: Migration, Culture, & the Law, 1866-1889 
Gregory Smithers, Virginia Commonwealth University; December 14, 2011, B-91 
Sanitizing "Indians" in America's Thanksgiving Story 
Sierra Adare, SUNY Buffalo; March 14, 2012, B-91 
The Federal City and Indigenous Space: Imaging and Imagining Colonialism in Nineteenth-Century Washington DC 
Joe Genetin-Pilawa, Illinois College. 
This seminar is co-sponsored by the Center for American History and Culture; the American Indian on the National Mall; arch 21, 2012, B-91 
The Shows on the Road:  Native and African American Circus Employees Seize Labor, Travel and Educational Opportunities Across the Nation and Around the World
; Sakina Hughes, Michigan State University;

The 46th International Conference on Salish & Neighboring Languages will be held at the University of British Columbia in 2011.  Tentative dates for the Conference are August 5 - 7, 2011. Information will become available at: http://sites.google.com/site/icsnl45/icsnl46. For more information contact Henry Davis, henryd@interchange.ubc.ca.

The International Institute for Indigenous Resource Management, Workshop on the Strategic Application of the National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA) in Indian Country, is August 17-18, 2011, at the Double Tree Denver, 3203 Quebec Street, Denver, CO. For more information contact Jeanne Rubin (303)744-9686, http://r20.rs6.net/tn.jsp?llr=v8fsecgab&et=1106821162238&s=1487&e=001IpKjLTwucBCWrzoIIcTKXfV7-8gBRlBU57x0RJa4oCEj58Ebnj9Fa0-EfGaUeiWsJWl8gQ4EerT6scaArTqKCFTSgaKI2YkSL0_AUHy0Cu3kYKZFfQxM3Xns8pnQj071SvnSEB1SuK5fEr0Z-H5AlWfVMB87yHCn4lwZa0oKNgykSXMBrSkRvjXhp.

Fostering Indigenous Business and Entrepreneurship in the Americas Conference: FIBE Manaus 2011 is likely to be in September 2011. 2010 For information and to make submissions contact fibea@mgt.unm.edu, http://fibeamanaus.mgt.unm.edu/.

Language Death, Endangerment, Documentation & Revitalization
 26^th is at the University of Wisconsin - Milwaukee Linguistics Symposium Milwaukee, WI, October 20-22, 2011. For details go to: http://www4.uwm.edu/letsci/conferences/linguistics2011/.

The 42^nd National Indian Education Association: Building Alliances to Strengthen Native Education Values is at the Albuquerque Convention Center in Albuquerque, NM, October 25-30, 2011. For details go to: www.nativewellness.com.

The 68th Annual Convention of the National Congress of American Indians (NCAI): Our shared journey toward tribal prosperity is  October 30 - November 4, 2011 in 
Portland, OR. For details including agendas go to http://www.ncai.org/Conferences-Events.7.0.html.

The Symposium on Teaching Learning Indigenous Languages of Latin America: STILLA-2011 is at the 
University of Notre Dame, Notre Dame IN, USA, October 30-November 2, 2011. For information visit: http://www2.nau.edu/jar/Conf.html.

Ninth Native American Symposium and Film Festival: "Where No One Else Has Gone Before", Keynote Speaker Henrietta Mann, is November 2-4, 2011 at Southeastern Oklahoma State University in Durant, Oklahoma.  For details visit www.se.edu/nas/, or contact Dr. Mark B. Spencer, Department of English, Humanities, and Languages, Box 4121, Southeastern Oklahoma State University, Durant, OK 74701-0609, mspencer@se.edu.

The Second Conference on Ethnicity, Race, and Indigenous Peoples in Latin America and the Caribbean is November 3-5, 2011, at the University of California, San Diego. The Conference's website is:http://cilas.ucsd.edu/erip/index.html .

Ninth (biannual) Native American Symposium and Film Festival: Images, Imaginations, and Beyond will be in November, 2011 at Southeastern Oklahoma State University in Durant, Oklahoma. All papers presented at the 8th symposium in November 2009 were be eligible for inclusion in the volume of published proceedings, which was also be posted on the website which has conference information at: www.se.edu/nas//. For information contact Professor Mark Spencer, Department of English, Humanities, and Languages, Southeastern Oklahoma State University, Durant, OK 74701 (580)745-2921, mspencer@se.edu.

The 16^th La Cosecha Annual Dual Language Conference 
is at the Albuquerque Convention Center in Albuquerque, NM, November 16-29, 2011.  For information visit: http://dlenm.org/lacosecha/.

The 4th Lakota, Dakota, Nakota Language Summit
 is in Rapid City, SD, USA, November 17-19, 2011. For details go to: http://www2.nau.edu/jar/Conf.html.

GLOBAL DAY OF ACTION: International Demonstrations on Climate Change is December 3, 2011 at the time of the United Nations Talks on climate change (COP16/MOP6) in Durbn, South Africa Plans for intend synchronized demonstrations around the world are being publicized and promoted at: http://www.globalclimatecampaign.org/, or contact: info@globalclimatecampaign.org.

Society for the Study of the Indigenous Languages of the Americas 2010-11 annual winter meeting of SSILA will be held jointly with the Annual Meeting of the Linguistic Society of America in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania at the Hilton Pittsburgh, January 6-9, 2011. For information go to: http://linguistlist.org/ssila/AnnualMeeting/AnnualMeeting.cfm.

The Eighth International Conference on Environmental, Cultural, Economic and Social Sustainability will be held at the Robson Square, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, Canada January 10-12, 2012. The Conference will work in a multidisciplinary way across the various fields and perspectives through which we can address the fundamental and related questions of sustainability. For details go to: http://www.SustainabilityConference.com.

Native/Indigenous Studies Area of the 2012 Southwest/Texas Popular Culture/American Culture Association's 30th annual meeting will be February 8-11, 2012 at the Hyatt Regency Hotel & Conference Center in Albuquerque, New Mexico. Deadline is December 15 for proposals of up to 250 words for Panels and Individual Papers, to the appropriate area chair: Richard Allen, American Indians Today, Cherokee Nation, PO Box 948, Tahlequah OK 74465, Richard-Allen@cherokee.org; M. Elise Marubbio, American Indian/Indigenous Film, Augsburg College, American Indian Studies, CB 115, 2211 Riverside Avenue, Minneapolis MN 55454, marubbio@augsbur; Citlalin Xochime, Co-Chair, Native American/Indigenous Studies, New Mexico State University, Dept. of English, PO Box 30001, MSC 3E, Las Cruces NM 88003, citlalin@att.net, or  L. Rain Cranford-Gomez, Co-Chair, Native American/Indigenous Studies, Cornelia Connelly School, American Literature and Language Arts, 2323 West Broadway, Anaheim CA 92801, ohoyocreole@gmail.com.. Further details regarding the conference (listing of all areas, hotel, registration, tours, etc.) can be found at: http://swtxpca.org/https://mail.msu.edu/cgi-bin/webmail?timestamp=1187041691&md5=r%2B8zeYT8m2RajaxaGpmkeQ%3D%3D&redirect=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.swtexaspca.org%2F.

The 2012 Conference of the National Association of Native American Studies will be held February 13-18, 2011 in Baton Rouge, LA. For information contact: Dr. Lemuel Berry, Jr., Executive Director, NANAS, P.O. Box 325, Biddeford, ME 04005-0325 (207}839-8004, Fax: 207/839-3776, naaasconference@earthlink.net, www.NAAAS.org.

The Third International Conference on Heritage/Community Languages may be at the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA), in February 2012. For details go to: http://www.international.ucla.edu/languages/nhlrc/conference/.

3rd International Conference on Language Documentation and Conservation (ICLDC is likely to be at the University of Hawaii at Manoa, Honolulu, HI, USA, in February, 2013. For details visit: http://nflrc.hawaii.edu/ICLDC/2011/.

National Association for Bilingual Education 41^st Annual Conference, "Celebrating Our Multicultural Nation Through Bilingual Education" is February 15-17, 2012, in Dallas TX
. For information go to: http://www.nabe.org/conference.html.

NCAI Executive Council Winter Session is at L'Enfant Plaza Hotel
 March 3 - 6, 2012 in 
Washington, DC. For details go to: http://www.ncai.org/Conferences-Events.7.0.html.

The 35^th Annual California Conference on American Indian Education is March 15-17, 2012 at Humboldt State University, Arcata, CA. For more information contact: Achel McBride: (530)895-4212 x 110, Irma Amaro: (707)464-3512, or Judy Delgado at 916-319-0506, judelgado@cde.ca.gov, or go to: http://www.aisc.ucla.edu/admin/gcal.shtml.

The Western Political Science Association (WPSA) 2012 Annual Meeting is March 22 24, 2012, Marriott Waterfront Portland, Oregon. Section 21: Race, Ethnicity and Politics Section is open to again having panels or papers on Indigenous politics. Send proposals to the Chair: Jose Marichal
, California Lutheran University
marichal@callutheran.edu.  For details go to: http://www.csus.edu/org/wpsa.

The University of Idaho College of Law Seventh annual conference to look at issues involving Indian country will be March 23, 2012. For information contact Angelique EagleWoman: eaglewoman@uidaho.edu, or visit: http://www.uidaho.edu/law/newsandevents/nativeamericanlawconference.

The 8^th Annual Conference on Endangered Languages and Cultures of the Americas
 is University of Utah, Salt Lake City, UT, March 23-24, put on by the Center for American Indian Languages, at the University of Utah, which also runs a series of workshops. For details go to: http://www.cail.utah.edu, or contact Jennifer Mitchell: cail.utah@gmail.com

The Eighth Annual Southeast Indian Studies Conference is likely April, 2012, at the University of North Carolina at Pembroke. For information contact Alesia Cummings at American Indian Studies PO Box 1510 Pembroke, NC 28372-1510. alesia.cummings@uncp.edu, or Dr. Mary Ann Jacobs (910)521-6266, mary.jacobs@uncp.edu, http://www.uncp.edu/ais/news/sisc/index.htm.

The 12^th Session of the UN Permanent Forum on Indigenous Issues is likely to be late April or May, 2012, at UN Headquarters in New York. For details go to: http://www.un.org/esa/socdev/unpfii/en/sessions.html.

19^th Annual Stabilizing Indigenous Languages Symposium
 is at Thompson Rivers University, Kamloops, British Columbia, Canada, May 10-12, 2012. Information will eventually be available via: http://www2.nau.edu/jar/Conf.html.

Native American Student Advocacy Institute may be putting on the fifth, Strengthening Connections for Access and Equity in Education, is May 22-23, 2012
. The meeting is concerned about developing an effective program for supporting American Indian, Alaska Native, and Native Hawaiian Students. For more information go to: http://www.collegeboard.com/nasai/index.html, or email: nasai@collegeboard.org.

The 4^th Native American and Indigenous Studies Association (NAISA) Annual Conference is at the Mohegan Sun Convention Center, 1 Mohegan Sun Boulevard, Uncasville, Connecticut 06382, June 3-6, 2012. For details go to: http://naisa.org/sites/naisa.org/files/NAISA.CFP%20New%20England.2012_0.pdf or http://naisa.org/.

The Society of American Indian Government Employees (SAIGE) is a national non-profit organization that advocates for American Indian and Alaska Native federal employees. SAIGE will host its 9th annual national joint training conference with the American Indian Alaska Native Employees Association (AIANEA), likely in June 2012. Information will become available from the Society of American Indian Government Employees, P.O. Box 7715, Washington, D.C. 20044, www.saige.org.

The NCAI Mid Year Conference is 
June 17-20, 2012 in Lincoln, NE. For details go to: http://www.ncai.org/Conferences-Events.7.0.html.

Athabascan/Dene Language Conference may be in June 2012. Details will likely be at: http://www.uaf.edu/anlc/alc/.

The Northwest Indian Language Institute Summer 2012 may be in June and July, 2012, at the University of Oregon, Eugene, OR. For details go to: http://pages.uoregon.edu/nwili/summer-institute.

Charting Vanishing Voices: A Collaborative Workshop to Map Endangered Oral Cultures is June 29-30, 2012 at the Centre for Research in the Arts, Humanities and Social Sciences (CRASSH), University of Cambridge, Cambridge, England. For details go to: www.crassh.cam.ac.uk/events/1685.

The United National Indian Tribal Youth (UNITY) Conference is likely to be in July 2012. For information go to: http://www.unityinc.org.

The Dakota Language Program of the University of Minnesota Department of American Indian Studies in collaboration with Pond Dakota Heritage Society, Dakota Wicohie and the Nandagikendan Urban Immersion Program was putting on each summer an Annual Dakota Language Camps, which may be continuing. For information go to: http://amin.umn.edu.

Language Endangerment: Methodologies and New Challenges is July 6, 2012 at the Centre for Research in the Arts, Humanities and Social Sciences (CRASSH), University of Cambridge, Cambridge, England. For details go to: www.crassh.cam.ac.uk/events/1688.

The Seventh Annual Vine Deloria, Jr. Indigenous Studies Symposium tentatively is at Northwest Indian College, likely in July, 2012. For details and reservations contact Steve Pavlik, Co-coordinator, Native American Studies, Northwest Indian College, 2533 Kwina Rd., Bellingham, WA 98226 (360)392-4307, spavlik@nwic.edu, www.nwic.edu.

The NCAI 69th Annual Convention will be 
October/November, 2012 in 
San Diego, Sacramento, or San Francisco. For details as they are available go to: http://www.ncai.org/Conferences-Events.7.0.html.

3^rd International Conference on Language Documentation and Conservation (ICLDC) 
is a biannual event, so the next conference likely will be at the University of Hawaii at Manoa, Honolulu, HI, in February, 2013. For details go to: http://nflrc.hawaii.edu/ICLDC/2011/.

Conferences of the International Society for Language Studies are being held on a two-year cycle (every other year) with publication of the annual volume series Readings in Language Studies to be of primary focus during the intervening year. The 2013 biennial conference may well be in June, 2013. For information contact International Society for Language Studies, c/o OSBORN, Graduate School of Education, Fordham University, 113 W. 60th Street, Room 1102, New York, NY 10023, conf2009@isls-inc.org, http://www.isls-inc.org/conference/conference.html.