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• New Special AICRJ issue on ‘Settler Colonialism & The Legislating of Criminality’
  

    American Indian Culture and Research Journal: Vol. 40, No. 1 (2016) Settler Colonialism and the Legislating of Criminality Guest Editor: Luana Ross In Memoriam: Patrick Wolfe (February 18, 2016) by Mishuana Goeman Introduction by Luana Ross Articles (click on the links below to view abstracts) The Violent Legacies of the California Missions: Mapping the … Read more



• The Settler Complex: Recuperating Binarism in Colonial Studies
  

  The Settler Complex: Recuperating Binarism in Colonial Studies By Patrick Wolfe The essays in this volume confront the assimilationist agendas in settler-colonial states around the world that seek to erase the distinct histories and current status of Indigenous peoples as sovereign peoples. In the introduction, editor Patrick Wolfe provocatively asks whether the repudiation of binarism … Read more



• Indian Country Today Media Network: John Trudell: An Appreciation
  

  By Hanay Geiogamah December 11, 2015 Like so many of us American Indians who have spent the better part of our lives trying to find our place in the world in American life and in tribal life John Trudell was born and grew up dirt poor in the wind-swept openness of the prairies of Nebraska. … Read more



• Indian Country Today Media Network: Manufacturing Consent for the Living AND the Dead in Hawai’i
  

  By Noelani Arista & Randall Akee November 20, 2015 As you read this, Na’i Aupuni (Seizure of Government), the new non-profit agency created and funded by the State of Hawai’i, is launching a Native Hawaiian constitutional convention. In order to understand the process it has never been more timely to have a public discussion about … Read more



• Institute of American Cultures 2016-2017 Research Grant Program in Ethnic Studies
  

  The Institute of American Cultures invites applications for support of research on African Americans, American Indians, Asian Americans, and Chicanas/os for 2016-2017. The Institute also invites proposals on interethnic relations that will increase collaboration between the Centers and/or between the Centers and other campus units. The Research Grant Program is on a reimbursement basis only. … Read more



• Civil Beat: “He ‘Aha Kēia? Is This a Convention?” by Randall Akee
  

  He ‘Aha Kēia? Is This a Convention? Delegate candidates for a Native Hawaiian Constitutional Convention do not reflect the true makeup of the Native Hawaiian population. On Sept. 30, 2015, the candidates for delegates for the aha (Native Hawaiian Constitutional Convention) organized by the group, Nai Aupuni, were announced. The biographies and backgrounds for the … Read more



• Truth-out: “Academic Freedom Under Attack” by David Shorter
  

  Higher education’s contribution to society rests upon the ability of educators to wrestle with challenging topics, no matter how complex or difficult to discuss. Such is the case with food safety, income inequality, institutionalized racism and a wide range of matters pertaining to public policy, just to name a few. Universities have historically expected the … Read more



• Call for Submissions: The Indigenous Peoples’ Journal of Law, Culture & Resistance
  

  The Indigenous Peoples’ Journal of Law, Culture & Resistance (IPJLCR) is accepting submissions for Volume 3. Submissions are being accepted until December 31, 2015. IPJLCR is a law journal at the University of California Los Angeles School of Law that is interdisciplinary in nature, consisting of academic articles, legal commentary, poetry, songs, stories, and artwork. … Read more



• Professor Randall Akee interviewed on NPR: Nobel Prize winning economist Angus Deaton; then the impact of poverty on children
  

  Princeton professor ANGUS DEATON was awarded the 2015 Nobel Prize in Economics last week in recognition of his work focusing on measuring and assessing poverty. He has long been interested in looking at poverty not by income level, but by what people consume, their educational attainment and their life expectancy and how these factors should … Read more



• Institute of American Cultures 2016-2017 Visiting Scholar/Researcher Fellowship Program in Ethnic Studies
  

  The Institute of American Cultures offers in-residence appointments to support research on African Americans, American Indians, Asian Americans, and Chicanas/os. We especially encourage applications that advance our understanding of new social and cultural realities occasioned by the dramatic population shifts of recent decades, including greater heterogeneity within ethnic groups and increased interethnic contact. Two types … Read more