Through seven years of disputes, a proposed rock quarry in Riverside County has been called a job creator, an economy killer, an environmental disaster and even a creation site. The debate ended Thursday, when the Pechanga Band of Luiseño Indians agreed to purchase 354 acres of the site for $3 million and pay developer Granite … Read more
Law and disorder on the reservation By Valerie Vande Panne Harvard Correspondent Thursday, November 15, 2012 At Harvard Law School (HLS) Nov. 8 for the first day of a two-day conference titled “Tribal Courts and the Federal System,” Troy Eid, chairman of the Indian Law and Order Commission (ILOC) started his talk with a quiz. … Read more
Novel About Racial Injustice Wins National Book Award By LESLIE KAUFMAN Published: November 14, 2012 Beating out an unusually competitive field, Louise Erdrich won the National Book Award for fiction on Wednesday night for “The Round House,” a novel about a teenage boy’s effort to investigate an attack on his mother on a North Dakota … Read more
The American Indian Studies Center is a research institute founded in 1969 at the University of California, Los Angeles, dedicated to addressing American Indian issues and supporting Indian nations. The Center also serves as a bridge between the academy and indigenous peoples locally, nationally, and internationally, with a goal of advancing understandings between Native and … Read more
Presidential Proclamation — National Native American Heritage Month, 2012 NATIONAL NATIVE AMERICAN HERITAGE MONTH, 2012 – – – – – – – BY THE PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA A PROCLAMATION As the first people to live on the land we all cherish, American Indians and Alaska Natives have profoundly shaped our country’s … Read more
Telling Stories in the Face of Danger: Language Renewal in Native American Communities. Edited by Paul V. Kroskrity. 2012. Norman: University of Oklahoma Press. 264 pages. ISBN: 978-0-8061-4227-2 (hard cover). Custer on Canvas: Representing Indians, Memory, and Violence in the New West. By Norman K. Denzin. 2011. Walnut Creek: Left Coast Press. 279 pages. ISBN: … Read more
Professor Riley will serve as an Advisor for the newly implemented American Indian Law Project. [Updated: Friday, October 5, 2012, 8:56 AM PST] Read about the current project, Restatement Third, The Law of American Indians. The American Law Institute, http://www.ali.org/, is the leading independent organization in the United States producing scholarly work to clarify, modernize, … Read more
The McNickle Center is pleased to share the news that Fred Hoxie, Swanland Professor of History at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign and former director of the McNickle Center has been named the winner of this year’s American Indian History Lifetime Achievement Award, in recognition for his many years of advancing the field of … Read more
To: Deans, Faculty, Vice Provosts, Vice Chancellors, Chief Administrative Officers, Institute of American Cultures Staff, and Ethnic Studies Centers Staff I am pleased to announce that Professor M. Belinda Tucker has accepted an offer from Chancellor Block and me to serve in the newly established position of vice provost of the Institute of American Cultures. … Read more
Hi Friends & Colleagues: We would like to announce the launch of the new Red Circle Project’s website at www.redcircleproject.org. This website is designed to provide project information, HIV/AIDS information & resources both locally and nationally, Two Spirit Identity, and resources available in the local Native community. We are very excited to be able to … Read more