Title: Call for Applications: 2010 Honoring Nations Award Program
Contacts: Megan Hill (Megan_Hill@harvard.edu or 617-496-4229) or Misko Beaudrie (Manon_Beaudrie@ksg.harvard.edu or 617-496-9446) if you have any questions.

On behalf of the Harvard Project on American Indian Economic Development and the Honoring Nations Board of Governors, we invite you to apply for the 2010 Honoring Nations Award Program.

Honoring Nations is a national awards program that identifies, celebrates, and shares outstanding examples of tribal governance. The award-winning programs address a broad range of topics, including cultural affairs, economic and community development, education, environment and natural resources, government performance, health and social services, intergovernmental relations, and justice. They offer insight into effective problem solving and provide fresh ideas for strengthening sovereign Nations through self-determination.

You can access the online application at: http://www.hks.harvard.edu/hpaied/hn_apply.htm. Share it with your colleagues or tribal Nation programs that would be good candidates for Honoring Nations.

Title: Curriculum Development Associate, Graduate School of Education (Part-Time Position)
Date Posted: October 8, 2009

The Curriculum Development Associate will take a lead role in researching and developing curricular and knowledge capture products for both the Executive Leadership Program for Educators (ExEL) and the Doctoral Leadership Degree (EdLD). Working in collaboration with faculty and staff involved with both efforts, the Curriculum Development Associate will play a key role in gathering the lessons learned and impact of the ExEL initiative and will co-develop mini-cases, analytical briefs, and evaluative narratives. For the EdLD, s/he takes a lead role in the researching and writing of several products including cases, industry notes, and teaching notes. Please note that this is a term position through June 30, 2010.

Basic Qualifications: Bachelor's Degree and 3+ years of directly related experience. Strong qualitative research skills, and previous experience with analytical writing and development of curricular and evaluation products. Previous experience using qualitative software.
Advanced Qualifications: The position requires deep knowledge of the education sector, experience within the sector in different kinds of positions (school level, policy level), strong research and writing skills, and capacity to engage with and interview senior level leaders in school districts and state education agencies.

For more information, visit: http://jobs.harvard.edu/jobs/summ_req?in_post_id=42434.

Event Title: HUNAP Colloquium feat: Dr. Randall Akee
Date & Time: December 1, 2009, 1:00pm
Location: HUNAP, 14 Story Street, 4th Floor, Cambridge, MA 02138

This presentation will examine the role that an increase in household income due to per capita income disbursements have on long-run child outcomes such as educational attainment and criminal activity.

Dr. Randall Akee recently joined the Economics Department at Tufts University as an Assistant Professor. Dr. Akee completed his Ph.D. at Harvard University in June 2006. Prior to his doctoral studies, he earned a Bachelor’s degree in Economics and Russian at Dartmouth College, and a Master’s degree in International and Development Economics at Yale University. Dr. Akee’s past work includes several years spent working for the State of Hawaii Office of Hawaiian Affairs Economic Development Division and conducting research at the Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA). His main research interests are Labor Economics, Economic Development and Migration of Indigenous Peoples.

Event Title: Lecture by Jim Allen, CEO of Gaming for the Seminole Tribe
Date & Time: December 3, 2009, 3:00pm
Location: Aldrich Hall, Room 209, Harvard Business School
Contact: Robert Humble, HBS ’10, rhumble@mba2010.hbs.edu

Mr. Allen will address the following issues:

• The Seminole's 2007 acquisition of Hard Rock Entertainment
• How this acquisition fits into the tribe's gaming strategy
• How gaming and other business ventures address tribal concerns of sovereignty and economic prosperity

There will be plenty of time for questions following Mr. Allen's presentation.

Title: College Horizons: A Pre-College Workshop For Native American High School Students
Deadline: February 1, 2010 (priority); February 26, 2010 (2nd round)
Website: www.collegehorizons.org
Email: info@collegehorizons.org

Program Dates:
June 12-16, 2010 - University of Hawai'i Hilo (Hilo, HI)
June 26-30, 2010 - Lawrence University (Appleton, WI)
June 26-30, 2010 - University of Puget Sound (Tacoma, WA)

College Horizons is a five-day “crash course” in preparing for college. The individualized program helps students select colleges suitable for them to apply to, get admitted to, and receive adequate financial aid. Students research their top 10 schools; complete essays, resumes, applications, and the FAFSA; receive interviewing skills and test-taking strategies (on the ACT and SAT) and financial aid/scholarship information. Eligible participants must be American Indian (enrolled members only), Alaska Native (proof of status) or Native Hawaiian; current sophomores and juniors with a minimum GPA of 3.00 (in academic courses).

Applications will be accepted on a space-available basis to May 1 (after March 1, please contact us to see which site may still have spaces). Complete program cost is $200 (includes tuition, room, meals, all materials and transportation to campus from the designated airports). Students are responsible for their own airfare, but substantial funds are available for travel and tuition assistance (each year we award travel assistance to over 50% of our students).

Title: Graduate Horizons: A Pre-Graduate Workshop For Native College Students & College Graduates
Deadline: February 1, 2010 (priority); February 26, 2010 (2nd round)
Website: www.collegehorizons.org
Email: info@collegehorizons.org

Program Dates:
July 17-20, 2010 - Arizona State University (Tempe, AZ)

Graduate Horizons is a four-day “crash course” for Native college students, college graduates, master’s students in preparing for graduate school (master’s, Ph.D. or professional school). Faculty, admission officers and deans from a host of graduate and professional schools and representing hundreds of graduate disciplines work with students to consider career paths and related graduate studies; complete personal statements, resumes, applications; and receive test-taking strategies (on the GRE, GMAT, LSAT, MCAT) and financial aid/scholarship information. Eligible participants must be American Indian (enrolled members only), Alaska Native (proof of status), Native Hawaiian, First Nations of Canada; a college student, master's student, or college graduate.

Applications will be accepted on a space-available basis to June 1 (after May 1, please contact us to see which site may still have spaces). Complete program cost is $200 (includes tuition, room, meals, all materials and transportation to campus from the designated airport). Students are responsible for their own airfare, but substantial funds are available for travel and tuition assistance (each year we award travel assistance to over 50% of our students).

Title: Public Health/Psychology Intern
Deadline: Open until filled.
Location: Cambridge, MA and Ipswich, MA
Contact: Shelley A. Welch, MA, Project Director
Phone: 978-380-2357
Email: shellwelch@thecapturingspiritproject.org
Website: www.thecapturingspiritproject.org

Seeking Public Health/Psychology Intern for The Capturing Spirit Project, a non-profit research and development project focused on the emotional well being of American Indian (A.I.) mothers and their infants. A good opportunity for undergraduate or graduate level student interested in A.I. public health and/or/mental health. The project has National scope and currently functions on Boston’s Northshore. The project’s Phase I responsibilities will include: collection of journal data and research, maintaining and organizing contact networks, and development of a map of American Indian Health organizations that serve A.I. pregnant women and their infants.

Candidate must be in commuting distance of Ipswich, MA (reachable by commuter rail). Minimum of 4 telecommuting hours monthly to start. Monthly two hour supervision and project planning on-site required. Access to university libraries and ability to navigate journal research necessary. Thorough review of the project’s website is highly recommended before inquiry. Duration and hours flexible. Currently, an unpaid internship, stipend possible dependent on future grants.

Title: 2010 Canadian Journal of Native Education: Connecting to Spirit in Indigenous Research
Deadline: January 31, 2010
Contact: Dr. Jo-ann Archibald, Indigenous Education
Email: indigenous.education@ubc.ca

Research is a part of everything we do and how we live our lives. In this 2010 Canadian Journal of Native Education (CJNE) theme issue “Connecting to Spirit in Indigenous Research” we will highlight scholarly work focused on the importance of reclaiming and redefining “research” from Indigenous perspectives by experiencing the process and approaches in which scholars connect to “spirit” in doing research.

This CJNE call is for research papers, stories and thought-pieces that address the 2010 theme. The following questions are of particular interest:

• How do Indigenous research approaches contribute to the significant improvement and transformation of Indigenous education?
• How do researchers “connect to spirit” in their research?
• How do Indigenous research approaches and methodologies honor and strengthen our connection to our families, communities, nations and ourselves?
• How does the natural world contribute to and inform Indigenous research?
• How does Indigenous research draw on Indigenous ways of knowing and being, connecting with self and spirit?

Title: The Newberry Library Seminar in American Indian Studies, 2009-2010 Academic Year
Deadline: Open until filled.

The seminar will provide a forum for works-in-progress that explore topics in American Indian Studies. We encourage the submission of proposals for seminar papers that examine a wide variety of subjects relating to American Indian and Indigenous history and culture broadly conceived. The seminar is open to graduate students, faculty members and independent scholars. Graduate students and junior faculty in the early-writing stages who wish to present work are especially encouraged to apply. The seminar will meet several times during the academic year, usually on a Thursday afternoon from 3pm to 5pm, at the Newberry Library in Chicago, Illinois.

To propose a paper, please send a one-page proposal, a statement explaining the relationship of the paper to your other work, and a brief c.v. to: Jade Cabagnot, Program Assistant, D'Arcy McNickle Center for American Indian History, The Newberry Library. Please send all materials as electronic attachments via email to: mcnickle@newberry.org.

Title: 2010 Annual Meeting American Society for Ethnohistory Call for Papers
Deadline: April 15, 2010
Conference Date(s): October 14-16, 2010
Conference Location: Lord Elgin Hotel, Ottawa ON Canada
Email: jbelisle@uOttawa.ca
Website: http://ethnohistory.org.

The theme for the ASE Ottawa 2010 is titled ‘Creating Nations and Building States: Past and Present,’ focusing on indigenous societies and their relations with expanding colonial and modern state structures of Canada, America, and Latin America. This general theme is intended to initiate discussions on the complex and often fractious relations between Native societies and expanding state structures in the Americas from contact onward. Papers on instances of ethnogenesis, persistence and transformation of identity, culture and social structures over time are especially welcomed.

We are strongly encouraging electronic submissions. All of the necessary forms will be made accessible through the American Society for Ethnohistory’s website: http://ethnohistory.org. Completed forms can then be emailed directly as Microsoft Word attachments to jbelisle@uOttawa.ca. For those submitting proposals via U.S. Mail, please send panel/paper abstracts, registration fees, application cover letter, and curriculum vitae to: ASE Program Committee Chair, c/o Professor Jean Francois Belisle; History Department; University of Ottawa; Ottawa, ON; Canada K1N 6N5.

Title: Call for Papers, Southwest/Texas Popular & American Culture Association's 31st Annual Conference
Deadline: December 15, 2009
Location: Albuquerque, NM
Conference Dates: February 10-13, 2010

Proposals for both Panels and Individual Papers are now being accepted for the Native/Indigenous Studies Area. Listed below are some suggestions for possible presentations, but topics not included here are welcome and encouraged.

• Indigenous Methodologies
• Indians in Higher Education
• Teaching Popular Culture in Native American Studies
• Biography, autobiography, and nonfiction works by and/or about Indigenous people
• Native Literature
• Public Health and Indigenous Peoples
• Popular culture and religion (or, religious popular culture)
• Native peoples across borders: racial/physical/economic/political… etc
• Native representations in popular culture (television, comic books, video/computer games (etc)
• Politics and Native peoples
• Indigenous Women in Social Work
• Indigenous resistance, regional or global (whaling/fishing rights, incarceration issues, sports mascots, etc.)

Inquiries regarding this area and/or abstracts of 250 words may be sent to L. Rain Cranford-Gomez (ohoyocreole@gmail.com) or Citlalin Xochime (citlalin@att.net):

Title: Southeastern Indians Through Time: Land, Geography, and Environment- Call for Papers
Deadline: December 1, 2009
Conference Date(s): February 19-20, 2010
Location: University of Georgia, Athens, GA
Contact: Professor R. Alfred Vick
Email: ravick@uga.edu
Mailing Address: 609 Caldwell Hall, University of Georgia, Athens, GA 30602.

The Institute of Native American Studies at the University of Georgia (“UGA”) invites proposals for a conference on the Native peoples of what is today the Southeastern United States, to be held at UGA in Athens, GA, February 19-20, 2010. Cheyenne-Arapaho filmmaker Chris Eyre will be a featured guest. He will be showing and discussing his documentary “The Trail of Tears,” part of the series “We Shall Remain” on American Experience.

Proposals should be for presentations of 15-20 minutes concerning the tribal nations with historical ties to the Southeast in relation to one or more of the three terms in the conference subtitle. Emphasis should be on change through time. Possible topics include, but are not limited to: sacred sites; environmental ethics and attitudes; relationships to the environment through food, medicine, ceremony, and myth; relationship to flora and/or fauna; reactions to temporal and spatial changes in environment and landscape; climatic changes; recombinant neo-tribes and their ties to specific lands; the process of geographic naming and appropriation thereof; protection and management of tribal lands; legal battles for land and land integrity; the evolution from so-called “pre-historic” tribes to contemporary tribal nations; the effects of removal and dispossession; and historical reconstruction. No specific discipline is required. Proposed papers can be from any disciplinary perspective, including anthropology, archaeology, ethnobotany, history, landscape architecture, law, literature, and religious studies, among others. It is the organizers’ hope to publish the proceedings as an edited volume.

Proposals should be no more than 250 words and should be typed and double-spaced. Selection will be based on quality, originality, and significance, as well as fit with other presentations. Deadline for submissions is December 1, 2009. Submitters will be notified by January 1, 2010. Although no honoraria will be paid, a limited amount of funds are available to assist with travel and expenses. These will be allotted on a competitive basis and will favor graduate students.

Title: Center for Indigenous Knowledge and Language Revitalization
Contact: Dr. Priscilla Day
Email: pday@dumn.edu
Website: www.bemaadizing.org

Eni-gikendaasoyaang the Center for Indigenous Knowledge and Language Revitalization is seeking article submissions for our online journal Bemaadizing. Bemaadizing is an online interdisciplinary journal of Indigenous life. We are looking for submissions that reflect Indigenous learning across the lifespan, Indigenous resiliency or are open to having an eclectic mix of topics.

Title: Sixth Annual Southeast Indian Studies Conference
Deadline: January 11, 2010
Conference dates: April 8-9, 2010
Location: The University of North Carolina at Pembroke, Pembroke, NC
Contact: Dr. Mary Ann Jacobs, American Indian Studies Department, UNC Pembroke
P.O. Box 1510, Pembroke, NC 28372
Phone: (910) 521-6266
Email: mary.jacobs@uncp.edu

Proposals are invited for papers and panels addressing the study of American Indians in the Southeast cultural area. Topics may include academic or creative works on: archaeology, education, history, socio-cultural issues, religion, literature, oral traditions, art, identity, sovereignty, health and other matters. Creative works may include any written, visual, musical, video, digital or other creative production that connects to Southeast Indian peoples’ experiences, histories or concerns. Proposals are welcome from all persons working in the field. Only complete proposals will receive full consideration. Individuals may submit only one proposal.

Proposals are to be submitted electronically or by mail by January 11, 2010. Proposals may not be accepted after this date. Send to alesia.cummings@uncp.edu or Alesia Cummings at American Indian Studies, PO Box 1510 Pembroke, NC 28372-1510.

Title: Proposed special issue of SAIL: Facing East: Literatures of Indigenous New England
Deadline: Title and 250-word abstract/paper proposal— December 30, 2009; Final Essays due June 30, 2010
Contact: Margo Lukens, University of Maine (Margaret_Lukens@umit.maine.edu); Siobhan Senier, University of New Hampshire (ssenier@unh.edu)

Indigenous New England remains under-represented and under-theorized across the many disciplines of Native American Studies. In the study of literature, just about the only Native writers from this region to get any acknowledgement are the earliest ones (e.g., the obligatory Occom and Apess, who appear in many anthologies and syllabi). The tendency to weight literary study toward such early figures only reinforces the idea that Indians vanished from the northeast long ago.

We therefore seek papers and contributions that will illuminate the rich and continuous literary output of Native people in New England from 1930s newspapers like The Narragansett Dawn, to contemporary writers like Abenaki poet Cheryl Savageau and Mohegan historian/novelist Melissa Tantaquidgeon Zobel, to the brand-new Passamaquoddy-Maliseet dictionary, full of sentences that tell stories. We hope to privilege pieces that focus on literature from the 20th century and forward (although we certainly welcome work on earlier periods as well); and we aim to place Native community-based scholarship alongside more conventionally university-based research.

We would like to use that scholarship as an opportunity to keep deconstructing, reconstructing, complicating and interrogating the very idea of a nation. In other words, this is a good time to start looking in earnest at the literatures of peoples who might not always have federal recognition, reservations, or a particular blood quantum--all colonial constructs that constrain, even as they enable, nationhood. Indigenous New England, and its literature, is promising terrain in which to have such conversations.

• How do Indigenous research approaches contribute to the significant improvement and transformation of Indigenous education?
• How do researchers “connect to spirit” in their research?
• How do Indigenous research approaches and methodologies honor and strengthen our connection to our families, communities, nations and ourselves?
• How does the natural world contribute to and inform Indigenous research?
• How does Indigenous research draw on Indigenous ways of knowing and being, connecting with self and spirit?

Title: The Newberry Library Seminar in American Indian Studies, 2009-2010 Academic Year
Deadline: Open until filled.

The seminar will provide a forum for works-in-progress that explore topics in American Indian Studies. We encourage the submission of proposals for seminar papers that examine a wide variety of subjects relating to American Indian and Indigenous history and culture broadly conceived. The seminar is open to graduate students, faculty members and independent scholars. Graduate students and junior faculty in the early-writing stages who wish to present work are especially encouraged to apply. The seminar will meet several times during the academic year, usually on a Thursday afternoon from 3pm to 5pm, at the Newberry Library in Chicago, Illinois.

To propose a paper, please send a one-page proposal, a statement explaining the relationship of the paper to your other work, and a brief c.v. to: Jade Cabagnot, Program Assistant, D'Arcy McNickle Center for American Indian History, The Newberry Library. Please send all materials as electronic attachments via email to: mcnickle@newberry.org.

Title: 2010 Annual Meeting American Society for Ethnohistory Call for Papers
Deadline: April 15, 2010
Conference Date(s): October 14-16, 2010
Conference Location: Lord Elgin Hotel, Ottawa ON Canada
Email: jbelisle@uOttawa.ca
Website: http://ethnohistory.org.

The theme for the ASE Ottawa 2010 is titled ‘Creating Nations and Building States: Past and Present,’ focusing on indigenous societies and their relations with expanding colonial and modern state structures of Canada, America, and Latin America. This general theme is intended to initiate discussions on the complex and often fractious relations between Native societies and expanding state structures in the Americas from contact onward. Papers on instances of ethnogenesis, persistence and transformation of identity, culture and social structures over time are especially welcomed.

We are strongly encouraging electronic submissions. All of the necessary forms will be made accessible through the American Society for Ethnohistory’s website: http://ethnohistory.org. Completed forms can then be emailed directly as Microsoft Word attachments to jbelisle@uOttawa.ca. For those submitting proposals via U.S. Mail, please send panel/paper abstracts, registration fees, application cover letter, and curriculum vitae to: ASE Program Committee Chair, c/o Professor Jean Francois Belisle; History Department; University of Ottawa; Ottawa, ON; Canada K1N 6N5.

Title: Call for Papers, Southwest/Texas Popular & American Culture Association's 31st Annual Conference
Deadline: December 15, 2009
Location: Albuquerque, NM
Conference Dates: February 10-13, 2010

Proposals for both Panels and Individual Papers are now being accepted for the Native/Indigenous Studies Area. Listed below are some suggestions for possible presentations, but topics not included here are welcome and encouraged.

• Indigenous Methodologies
• Indians in Higher Education
• Teaching Popular Culture in Native American Studies
• Biography, autobiography, and nonfiction works by and/or about Indigenous people
• Native Literature
• Public Health and Indigenous Peoples
• Popular culture and religion (or, religious popular culture)
• Native peoples across borders: racial/physical/economic/political… etc
• Native representations in popular culture (television, comic books, video/computer games (etc)
• Politics and Native peoples
• Indigenous Women in Social Work
• Indigenous resistance, regional or global (whaling/fishing rights, incarceration issues, sports mascots, etc.)

Inquiries regarding this area and/or abstracts of 250 words may be sent to L. Rain Cranford-Gomez (ohoyocreole@gmail.com) or Citlalin Xochime (citlalin@att.net):

Title: Sixth Annual Southeast Indian Studies Conference
Deadline: January 11, 2010
Conference dates: April 8-9, 2010
Location: The University of North Carolina at Pembroke, Pembroke, NC
Contact: Dr. Mary Ann Jacobs, American Indian Studies Department, UNC Pembroke
P.O. Box 1510, Pembroke, NC 28372
Phone: (910) 521-6266
Email: mary.jacobs@uncp.edu

Proposals are invited for papers and panels addressing the study of American Indians in the Southeast cultural area. Topics may include academic or creative works on: archaeology, education, history, socio-cultural issues, religion, literature, oral traditions, art, identity, sovereignty, health and other matters. Creative works may include any written, visual, musical, video, digital or other creative production that connects to Southeast Indian peoples’ experiences, histories or concerns. Proposals are welcome from all persons working in the field. Only complete proposals will receive full consideration. Individuals may submit only one proposal.

Proposals are to be submitted electronically or by mail by January 11, 2010. Proposals may not be accepted after this date. Send to alesia.cummings@uncp.edu or Alesia Cummings at American Indian Studies, PO Box 1510 Pembroke, NC 28372-1510.

Title: Proposed special issue of SAIL: Facing East: Literatures of Indigenous New England
Deadline: Title and 250-word abstract/paper proposal— December 30, 2009; Final Essays due June 30, 2010
Contact: Margo Lukens, University of Maine (Margaret_Lukens@umit.maine.edu); Siobhan Senier, University of New Hampshire (ssenier@unh.edu)

Indigenous New England remains under-represented and under-theorized across the many disciplines of Native American Studies. In the study of literature, just about the only Native writers from this region to get any acknowledgement are the earliest ones (e.g., the obligatory Occom and Apess, who appear in many anthologies and syllabi). The tendency to weight literary study toward such early figures only reinforces the idea that Indians vanished from the northeast long ago.

We therefore seek papers and contributions that will illuminate the rich and continuous literary output of Native people in New England from 1930s newspapers like The Narragansett Dawn, to contemporary writers like Abenaki poet Cheryl Savageau and Mohegan historian/novelist Melissa Tantaquidgeon Zobel, to the brand-new Passamaquoddy-Maliseet dictionary, full of sentences that tell stories. We hope to privilege pieces that focus on literature from the 20th century and forward (although we certainly welcome work on earlier periods as well); and we aim to place Native community-based scholarship alongside more conventionally university-based research.

We would like to use that scholarship as an opportunity to keep deconstructing, reconstructing, complicating and interrogating the very idea of a nation. In other words, this is a good time to start looking in earnest at the literatures of peoples who might not always have federal recognition, reservations, or a particular blood quantum--all colonial constructs that constrain, even as they enable, nationhood. Indigenous New England, and its literature, is promising terrain in which to have such conversations.

Title: 16th Annual American Indian Business Leaders Conference
Conference Date(s): April 8-10, 2010
Location: Fond du Lac Tribal & Community College, Black Bear Casino Hotel, Cloquet, MN
Phone: (877) 245-2425
Website: www.aibl.com

AIBL Mission: To support and promote the education and development of future American Indian business leaders

Since 1995, the American Indian Business Leaders (AIBL) organization fulfills its mission by conducting a national conference that offers business and leadership skill development, through the participation and engagement of over 75 established AIBL chapters that are based in middle and high schools, Tribal Colleges and Universities. Currently, there are 76 AIBL Chapters across America.

Conference Highlights:

• Business Symposia, Keynote Speakers and Panel Discussions
• Business and Leadership Development Workshops
• Business Plan Competition
• Scholarship Stipend Awards
• Banquet Awards Ceremony
• Networking Opportunities
• Corporate Contacts for Internships

Title: NGA PAE O TE MARAMATANGA INTERNATIONAL INDIGENOUS CONFERENCE 2010
Matauranga Taketake: Traditional Knowledge
Conference Date(s): June 6-9, 2010
Location: Auckland, New Zealand
Website: http://www.traditionalknowledge2010.ac.nz/

Theme: 'Kei muri i te awe kapara, he tangata ke: Recognising, engaging, understanding difference'

This conference addresses the question of difference. What are the costs to communities and society of failing to understand others? Can we reflect on our own assumptions and practice, our shared past and present and imagine and pursue a better future for individuals and the greater collective? The conference will provide opportunities to discuss strategies for engaging, understanding and accommodating difference in order to build relationships that address social, economic, resource, and environmental risks associated with failure to understand sufficiently the differences among indigenous and non-indigenous communities and societies. Given the diversity present in those attending the conference there will be many opportunities to learn from diverse contexts around the world about efforts to engage across the inter-face between indigenous and non-indigenous communities, across all disciplines, from individuals to societies, governments and nations. The intention is to move beyond identifying and understanding problems toward creative solutions that meet the needs of present and future generations. The conference provides the opportunity to develop a broader understanding by seeing and hearing things outside our own scope, to make connections across boundaries, and to formulate partnerships across new interfaces.

Title: "Sustainability--Indigenous Community--Activism": The 11th Annual American Indian Studies Association Conference
Conference Date(s): February 4-5, 2010
Location: Memorial Union, Arizona State University, Tempe Arizona
Contact: Elizabeth Martos
Phone: 480-727-8691; 480-965-3634 (Main desk)
Email: Elizabeth.martos@asu.edu

For more information visit: http://americanindian.clas.asu.edu

Title: NASPA Student Affairs Administrators in Higher Education (Multicultural Institute), Strengthening Connections for Strategic Multicultural Leadership
Dates: December 10-12, 2009
Location: Hyatt Regency Dallas, Dallas, TX
Website: www.naspa.org/programs/multi

Student affairs professionals and faculty working in multicultural education, as well as those who frame their practice in multicultural pedagogy, face challenging questions. What are effective methods for multicultural educators in developing their own professional competencies? How can educators partner with one another to deepen multicultural practice on campus? What are means of being strategic in our multicultural work with fellow community members including administrators, faculty, and students?

The NASPA Multicultural Institute is a dynamic professional development experience designed specifically for multicultural educators in higher education. This three-day Institute will consist of plenary speakers, educational sessions, and roundtable discussions. The Institute theme of Strengthening Connections for Strategic Multicultural Leadership summarizes the program's goal of creating a forum for multicultural educators across the academy to connect with one another, and gain valuable tools and ideas to engage upon returning to their institution.

All sessions and meals are open to register participants only.

Title: Workshop- Race, Ethnicity, Indigenous Peoples and Politics: Land, Territoriality & the Environment, Canadian Political Science Association Conference
Workshop Date(s): June 1-3, 2010
Location: Concordia University, Montreal, Canada
Website: www.cpsa-acsp.ca

Inspired by the 20th anniversary of the Oka Crisis, this daylong workshop will explore issues of land, territoriality and the environment from the vantage of, or its intersection with, research on race, ethnicity and Indigenous peoples.

This workshop aims to bring together scholars from different subfields and participants from government, the public sector and the community and to encourage innovative, crosscutting scholarly exchange on matters of land, territoriality and environment.

The workshop will consist of four panels: (1) Oka @ 20 which will examine the impact of the Oka crisis on Indigenous peoples, Canada and politics; (2) Contentious Claims which will explore intersections of identity and territoriality; (3) hot spots/hot topics which will look the politics of land and landlessness; and (4) a panel on constructions of land and environmental politics.

Paper proposals for this workshop are most welcome! Beyond the usual call for papers, REIPP is specifically seeking proposals connecting the study of race, ethnicity and Indigenous peoples and advancing the discipline and its theoretical and methodological underpinnings.

Title: 10th International Conference on Diversity in Organizations, Communities, and Nations
Conference Date(s): July 19-21, 2010
Location: Queen's University Belfast, Northern Ireland
Website: http://www.Diversity-Conference.com

The Diversity Conference has a history of bringing together scholarly, government and practice-based participants with an interest in the issues of diversity and community. The Conference examines the concept of diversity as a positive aspect of a global world and globalised society. Diversity is in many ways reflective of our present world order, but there are ways of taking this further without necessary engendering its alternatives: racism, conflict, discrimination and inequity. Diversity as a mode of social existence can be projected in ways that deepen the range of human experience.

Title: 2010 National Tribal Science Forum
Date: June 6-10, 2010
Location: Grand Traverse Resort and Spa, Traverse City, Michigan

Theme: "Mother Earth: Indigenous Knowledge and Science to Promote Positive Change."

This national forum is being sponsored by the National EPA-Tribal Science Council and hosted by the Grand Traverse Band of Ottawa and Chippewa Indians. The forum is designed for representatives of Tribal communities, including elders, leaders, faculty, staff and students working on environmental issues.

The forum will provide a platform to discuss issues of vital interest to Indian Country and make available opportunities to:

• Showcase tribal science through cutting-edge research and case studies
• Promote Native Science and highlight progress being made in environmental and health programs on tribal lands
• Share tribal science success stories through presentations, exhibits and poster session
• Obtain technical training in high priority areas identified by tribal governments and members of the Tribal Science Council
• Network and share knowledge among Native scientists and environmental professionals from throughout Indian Country
• Interact with Native students and hear their environmental voices via youth poetry and poster contests

Visit the forum web site for up-to-date information including agenda, plenary sessions, keynote speakers and registration beginning January 2010: http://epa.blhtech.com/2010TribalScienceForum.

Title: 16th Annual American Indian Business Leaders Conference
Conference Date(s): April 8-10, 2010
Location: Fond du Lac Tribal & Community College, Black Bear Casino Hotel, Cloquet, MN
Phone: (877) 245-2425
Website: www.aibl.com

AIBL Mission: To support and promote the education and development of future American Indian business leaders

Since 1995, the American Indian Business Leaders (AIBL) organization fulfills its mission by conducting a national conference that offers business and leadership skill development, through the participation and engagement of over 75 established AIBL chapters that are based in middle and high schools, Tribal Colleges and Universities. Currently, there are 76 AIBL Chapters across America.

Conference Highlights:
• Business Symposia, Keynote Speakers and Panel Discussions
• Business and Leadership Development Workshops
• Business Plan Competition
• Scholarship Stipend Awards
• Banquet Awards Ceremony
• Networking Opportunities
• Corporate Contacts for Internships

Title: NGA PAE O TE MARAMATANGA INTERNATIONAL INDIGENOUS CONFERENCE 2010
Matauranga Taketake: Traditional Knowledge
Conference Date(s): June 6-9, 2010
Location: Auckland, New Zealand
Website: http://www.traditionalknowledge2010.ac.nz/

Theme: 'Kei muri i te awe kapara, he tangata ke: Recognising, engaging, understanding difference'

This conference addresses the question of difference. What are the costs to communities and society of failing to understand others? Can we reflect on our own assumptions and practice, our shared past and present and imagine and pursue a better future for individuals and the greater collective? The conference will provide opportunities to discuss strategies for engaging, understanding and accommodating difference in order to build relationships that address social, economic, resource, and environmental risks associated with failure to understand sufficiently the differences among indigenous and non-indigenous communities and societies. Given the diversity present in those attending the conference there will be many opportunities to learn from diverse contexts around the world about efforts to engage across the inter-face between indigenous and non-indigenous communities, across all disciplines, from individuals to societies, governments and nations. The intention is to move beyond identifying and understanding problems toward creative solutions that meet the needs of present and future generations. The conference provides the opportunity to develop a broader understanding by seeing and hearing things outside our own scope, to make connections across boundaries, and to formulate partnerships across new interfaces.

Spread the word to high school seniors!!! There is also a early advantage scholarship of $500 each year for four years ($2000 total) given to all students who apply before December 1st. There is NO application fee if you apply online-- go to http://www.augsburg.edu/admissions/day/ and don't hesitate to contact me for assistance or more information. For Native students not in one of these college readiness programs, there are other financial aid opportunities here at Augsburg.

Augsburg College is committed to providing access to a college education through the Augsburg College Access Program (ACAP) and the Augsburg Promise Grant. ACAP recognizes students who have participated in a college-readiness programs by providing additional financial support. Students receive a $6,000 grant per year for four years because of their participation in one of these programs.

College Readiness Programs that Qualify Include:

Another component of is the Augsburg Promise Grant. Students will receive the total cost of tuition
through grants if they meet the following criteria:

1. ACT of 20 or higher
2. Cumulative GPA of 3.25 or higher in core courses (English, foreign language, science, math, and social studies)
3. Pell Grant eligible
4. Participation in a college-readiness program
5. Resident of Minnesota and a graduate from a Minnesota high school
6. Reside on campus while at Augsburg

To receive more information, or to apply online, visit the website: www.augsburg.edu.
To schedule a visit or talk with an admissions counselor, call 1-800-788-5678 or 612-330-1001.

Jennifer Simon
Director, American Indian Student Services
Advisor, Augsburg Indigenous Student Assoc. (AISA)
Augsburg College
2211 Riverside Avenue
Campus Box #307
Minneapolis, MN 55454
(612) 330-1144
Fax (612) 330-1695
simonj@augsburg.edu

Title: Graduate Scholarship to Study Costal Climatic Change
Contact: Dr. Rusty Feagin
Email: feaginr@tamu.edu

We are soliciting applications for a graduate scholarship directed towards evaluating climate change risk to indigenous cultural sites along North American coasts. We are particularly seeking American Indian and First Nation students with knowledge of indigenous cultural practices to explore these issues. Race or ethnicity will not be used to evaluate and select among the candidates that apply.

The scholarship will fund two years of study in a Master of Science program at Texas A&M University, Department of Ecosystem Science & Management. Program begins in January, June, or August of 2010. Scholarship is valued at approximately $60,000 over a two year period.

Successful applicants will work with Dr. Rusty Feagin of Texas A&M University and Dr. David Hurst Thomas of the American Museum of Natural History. Students will create ranked listings of indigenous cultural sites at the highest risk for destruction from climate change impacts; including current in-use places as well as areas of archaeological significance along North American coastlines.

Title: Southwest Tribal NARCH Scholarship Program
Email: www.mynarch.net

The purpose of the Southwest Tribal NARCH Scholarship Programs is to help American Indian and Alaska Native students pursue an education in public health. Fall 2009 marks the first round of scholarship funding.

Applicants must be an enrolled member in a federally recognized tribe. Priority will be given to members of tribes in New Mexico, Texas, and Colorado. Applicants must be enrolled in a graduate degree program. Priority will be given to students that have demonstrated commitment to their program of study for the Graduate Research Assistant program. Priority will be given to dual degree MD and MPH students for the MPH scholarship
program. Two students will be selected per semester per program.

Title: Mayor’s Policy Fellow, City of Portland, OR

Each year Mayor Sam Adams offers two Policy Fellow positions to the best and brightest. For 2010 we’ve hired one and now need to fill our last position. The position begins on January 4, lasts for one calendar year, and comes with a $20,000 stipend. Most importantly, it allows the fellow to earn one-of-a-kind, real-world experience in a mayor’s office that can easily lead to a full-time paid position in policy development or related fields.

Our Fellows work four eight-hour days for 32 hours per week on a wide variety of tasks and opportunities. Upon completion of your year with us, you will have earned a basic level of competence in education policy, transportation, planning & sustainability, economic development, arts & culture, international affairs, media relations, and city council protocol.

To apply: Please submit one electronic application and one hard copy application. Each should include a maximum one-page cover letter, resume, minimum three references, and maximum three-page writing sample. Send the electronic application to: sierra.stringfield@ci.portland.or.us with the subject line: ‘Mayor’s Policy Fellow Application’. Send the hard copy application to: Tom Miller, Chief of Staff, Re: Mayor’s Policy Fellow Application , Office of Mayor Sam Adams, 1221 SW 4th Avenue, Room 340, Portland, OR 97204. Due to the high volume of applications, please no in-person, phone, or email inquiries.

Title: Corporate Fellowship, MBA Program, Wake Forest University
Contact: Derrick S. Boone, Ph.D.
Phone: 336-758-4475
Email: derrick.boone@mba.wfu.edu
Website: http://mba.wfu.edu/

The Master of Art in Management program is designed specifically for liberal arts majors only. The MA degree program is a 10 month intense study of the basic functional areas of Business. After graduation and working for approximately two years, all MA graduates are eligible to apply to Wake Forest as part of the MA/MBA joint degree program and get the MBA in one year. The new Dean, Steve Reinemund, has created a new scholarship for diverse students pursuing the MA degree called the Corporate Fellowship.

The Corporate Fellowship provides full tuition and a $21,000 stipend to cover living expenses. Additionally, each Corporate Fellow will participate in a practicum. The practicum has two components, educational and professional development. Each student will be assigned a mentor that is a high level executive with their sponsor corporation. The mentor will oversee an educational project covering 4 of the functional areas of business using their own corporation as the subject.

Title: DOE ARRA-Funded Office of Science Graduate Fellowship Program
Deadline: November 30, 2009 (Applicants may begin submitting applications on September 30, 2009)

U.S. Energy Secretary Steven Chu announced last Wednesday that up to $12.5 million in funding from the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act will be awarded in early 2010 to support at least 80 graduate fellowships to U.S. students pursuing advanced degrees in science, mathematics, and engineering through the newly created Department of Energy Office of Science Graduate Fellowship program. To be eligible for the Fellowship, applicants must be U.S. citizens and currently a first or second year graduate student enrolled at a U.S. academic institution, or an undergraduate senior who will be enrolled as a first year graduate student by the fall of 2010. Applicants must be pursuing graduate study and research in the physical, biological, engineering and computational sciences. Interested students can apply online at: http://www.scied.science.doe.gov/SCGF.html

Each fellowship award will be $50,500 per year for three years to provide support for tuition, living expenses, research materials and travel to research conferences. Fellowships will be awarded on the basis of peer review.

Title: Chancellor’s Postdoctoral Fellowships in American Indian Studies, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, 2010-2011
Deadline: January 22, 2010
Contact: Matthew Sakiestewa Gilbert, Chair, Chancellor’s Postdoctoral Fellowship Committee, American Indian Studies
Phone: (217) 265-9870
Email: tewa@illinois.edu
Website: www.ais.illinois.edu

Under the Chancellor's Postdoctoral Fellowship Program at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, the American Indian Studies Program seeks two Postdoctoral Fellows for the 2010-2011 academic year. This fellowship program provides a stipend, a close working association with AIS faculty, and assistance in furthering the fellow's development as a productive scholar. Applicants should have an ongoing research project that promises to make a notable contribution to American Indian and Indigenous Studies. While fellows will concentrate on their research, they may choose to teach one course in American Indian Studies. Furthermore, fellows are encouraged to participate in the intellectual community of the American Indian Studies Program.

The Fellowship stipend for the 2010-2011 academic year is $42,000, including health benefits. An additional $5,000 will be provided for the fellow’s research, travel, and related expenses. Candidates must have completed all Ph.D. requirements by August 15, 2010. Preference will be given to those applicants who have finished their degrees in the past five years. The one-year fellowship appointment period is from August 16, 2010, to August 15, 2011.

Title: Newberry Library, Fellowships in the Humanities, 2010-2011
Deadline: See below
Phone: 312-255-3666
Email: research@newberry.org
Website: http://www.newberry.org/research/felshp/fellowshome.html

The Newberry’s fellowships support humanities research in our collections. We promise wide-ranging and rich collections; a lively interdisciplinary community of researchers; individual consultations on your research with staff curators, librarians, and scholars; and an array of scholarly and public programs.

LONG-TERM FELLOWSHIPS- Applications Due: January 11, 2010
These awards support research and writing by scholars with a doctorate. Their purpose is to help fellows develop or complete larger-scale studies that draw on our collections, and to foster intellectual exchange among fellows and the Library community. Fellowship terms range from six to eleven months with stipends of up to $50,400. Major long-term fellowship funding is provided by the National Endowment for the Humanities, The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, and Dr. Audrey Lumsden-Kouvel.

SHORT-TERM FELLOWSHIPS- Applications Due: March 1, 2010
Ph.D. candidates and scholars with a doctorate are eligible for short-term travel-to-collections fellowships. Their purpose is to help researchers study specific materials at the Newberry that are not readily available to them elsewhere. Short-term fellowships are usually awarded for a period of one month. Most are restricted to scholars who live and work outside the Chicago area. Stipends are $1600 per month.

NEW: We invite short-term fellowship applications from teams of two or three scholars who plan to collaborate intensively on a single, substantive project. The individual scholars on a team awarded a fellowship will each receive a full stipend of $1600 per month. Teams should submit a single application, including cover sheets and CVs from each member.

We also offer exchange fellowships with British, French and German institutions, a fellowship for American Indian women pursuing any post-graduate education, and a fellowship for published independent scholars.

Title: Moreau Academic Diversity, Postdoctoral Fellowship Program, University of Notre Dame
Deadline: December 10, 2009
Contact: Don Pope-Davis, Ph.D. (574-631-5716); Susan Ohmer, Ph.D. (574-631-1626)
Address: Moreau Academic Diversity Postdoctoral Fellowship Program, Office of the Provost, 300 Main Building, University of Notre Dame, Notre Dame, IN 46556-5602
Email: moreauscholars@nd.edu

The Moreau Academic Diversity Postdoctoral Program seeks to increase the number of scholars who will contribute to the intellectual vibrancy and research excellence of The University of Notre Dame by providing a two-year research, teaching, and mentoring experience. Promising candidates in any discipline who meet one or more of the following criteria are eligible to apply:

• Scholars in any discipline from one of the populations underrepresented historically in American higher education (e.g., Women, Native American, African American, Asian American, or Latino/a)
• Scholars whose research focuses on Gender, First Nations/Native American, Africa/Africana, Asian/Asian American, Ethnic, Latino/a, or Latin American Studies
• Scholars with interdisciplinary research projects that promise to enhance cultural competency and diversity within the American educational landscape and who are interested in exploring the implications of such work for liberal education in the Catholic tradition

These two-year postdoctoral appointments will carry a starting annual salary of $50,000. Health insurance and $5,000 for relocation/research expenses will also be part of the fellowship package.

Applicants must have completed all requirements for the doctoral degree by August 2010 or have received the terminal degree in their discipline within the past five years.

Title: Andrew W. Mellon Postdoctoral Fellowships, 2010-2011 (Wesleyan University, Center for the Americas)
Deadline: December 4, 2009
Contact: Robert T. Conn, Director, Center for the Americas
Address: Wesleyan University, 255 High Street, Middletown, CT 06459
Email: rconn@wesleyan.edu

Wesleyan University invites applications for two fellowships:

1. Native American Studies. We seek a cultural anthropologist or historian whose research focuses on indigenous peoples of the Americas.
2. Latin American Studies. We seek a postdoctoral fellow whose research focuses on literary and/or cultural production in the borderland zone of the Caribbean, Mexico, and the United States.

These fellowships carry limited teaching duties, and opportunities for scholarly research and professional development. Ph.D. must have been received before July 2010 and preferably since 2006. Annual stipend of $45,000, research/travel funds and health insurance.

Renewable for a second year. Applicants must be citizens or permanent residents of the United States, or expect to pursue a teaching career in the United States. Electronic applications accepted only, in PDF or Word format--Submit letter of interest, CV, 3 letters of reference, and brief writing sample to: Robert T. Conn (see above).

Title: Ann Plato Fellowship, Trinity College, Hartford Connecticut
Deadline: Review of applications begins November 15, 2009 and will continue until filled.
Phone: 860-297-2128
Email: Nancy.Horton@trincoll.edu
Website: http://www.trincoll.edu/Academics/DeanOfFaculty/AnnPlatoFellowship.htm

Trinity College invites applications for a one-year pre- or post-doctoral fellowship to promote diversity at our nationally recognized liberal arts college in Hartford, Connecticut. Ann Plato Fellows will join the faculty in one of over 30 academic departments or interdisciplinary programs, interact regularly with colleagues and students on campus, and work on their own research. Pre-doctoral fellows will teach one course during the year; post-doctoral fellows will teach two courses.

Date of Fellowship: September 1, 2010 to May 31, 2011

Stipend: Between mid-$40,000 (pre-doctoral) to mid-$50,000 (post-doctoral), plus health benefits, office space, computer, conference travel expenses, and assistance in finding housing near campus.

Title: Open Application for 13th Annual Patty Iron Cloud National Native American Youth Initiative
Application Deadline: April 16, 2010
Website: http://www.aaip.org/?page=AAIPStudents

The Association of American Indian Physicians (AAIP) is now accepting applications for the 13th Annual Patty Iron Cloud National Native American Youth Initiative, which will be held on the George Washington University campus in Washington D.C., June 19 - 27, 2010.

American Indian/Alaska Native (AI/AN) high school students, ages 16- 18, who have an interest in the health field and/or biomedical research are encouraged to apply. Selected high school students will receive a scholarship that covers their airfare, lodging, and most meals during the NNAYI program. NNAYI's curriculum is strategically designed to prepare high school students for admission to college and professional schools, as well as for careers in health and biomedical research.

Applicants will be notified of the selection results during the week of May 10, 2010.

Title: Elder Services of the Merrimack Valley, Free SMP Education Sessions
Contact: Terrie Drew, SMP Integration Project Coordinator
Phone: 978-946-1243
Email: tdrew@esmv.org

On behalf of Elder Services of the Merrimack Valley, Inc. (ESMV) and the Massachusetts Executive Office of Elder Affairs (EOEA) we are pleased to announce the launching of the Senior Medicare Patrol (SMP) Integration Project, funded by the Administration on Aging.

The Mission of this project is to reach isolated elders and their caregivers in rural areas and in counties with a high Native American presence. Our intent is to promote the delivery of accurate and culturally appropriate information about health benefits eligibility and essential aging services to these “hard-to-reach,” underserved and unserved populations. The goal of the program is to educate elders and their caregivers in order to increase access to services and decrease the potential for healthcare errors, fraud and abuse; as well as other deceptive marketing tactics. The SMP integration project is now scheduling FREE SMP education sessions.

To schedule an education session for your senior/elder population or for more information contact: Terrie Drew.