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Title: Golondrinas de las Americas
Deadline: Rolling
Contact: Lori Sonken
Phone: (607) 254-4266
Email: Ljs269@cornell.edu
Website: http://golondrinas.cornell.edu

We are a network of biologists studying swallows in the genus Tachycineta from Argentina to northern Canada. Founded by Cornell University professor David Winkler and supported by the National Science Foundation, the Golondrinas de las Americas project trains students to study the breeding biology and behavior of this closely related group of swallows in North, Central and South America. Using standardized protocols, students conduct field work, keep field records, maintain nest boxes and search for swallows. The internship lasts approximately two and one half to four months. Travel and living expenses as well as a small stipend are provided.

Required Qualifications: Interns must have a demonstrated interest in environmental biology or a related field. The ability to work, live, and communicate well with others under rigorous and remote conditions is required. To apply for the internship, send a cover letter, C.V. or resume and contact information for two professional references to Caren Cooper at Caren.Cooper@cornell.edu

Title: Ninth Native American Symposium and Film Festival: “Where No One Else Has Gone Before”
Proposal Deadline: June 25, 2011
Conference dates: November 2-4, 2011

Keynote Speaker Henrietta Mann

Papers are invited for the Ninth Native American Symposium to be held November 2-4, 2011 at Southeastern Oklahoma State University in Durant, Oklahoma. The symposium theme this year will celebrate the uncharted but hopeful future of Native America today. Papers, presentations, panel sessions, creative projects, and films on all aspects of Native American life and studies are welcome, including but not limited to history, literature, law, medicine, education, religion, politics, social science, and the fine arts. The keynote banquet speaker will be the distinguished Cheyenne educator and scholar Dr. Henrietta Mann. All papers presented at the symposium will be eligible for inclusion in the volume of published proceedings, which will also be posted on our website at www.se.edu/nas/.

Send abstracts of no more than 250 words by June 25, 2011 in either electronic (preferred) or hard-copy form to Dr. Mark B. Spencer, Department of English, Humanities, and Languages, Box 4121, Southeastern Oklahoma State University, Durant, OK 74701-0609, mspencer@se.edu.

Title: The Newberry Consortium in American Indian Studies: Graduate Student Conference
Conference Dates: July 29-30, 2011
Location: The Newberry Library, Chicago, Illinois
Call for paper deadline: June 1, 2011.
Website: http://www.newberry.org/mcnickle/darcyhome.html

Graduate students from NCAIS member institutions are invited to present papers in any academic field relating to American Indian and Indigenous Studies. We encourage the submission of proposals for papers that examine a wide variety of subjects relating to American Indian and Indigenous history and culture broadly conceived.

The conference will take place in conjunction with the NCAIS summer institute on July 29-30, 2011. NCAIS faculty liaisons in attendance have agreed to provide feedback on individual presentations relevant to their expertise. First-time presenters are encouraged.

To propose a paper, please send up to one-page proposal, a statement explaining the relationship of the paper to your other work, and a brief C.V. to mcnickle@newberry.org. The deadline for submission is June 1, 2011

If you are interested in proposing a paper and have questions, please contact conference coordinator and Director of the McNickle Center, Dr. Scott Manning Stevens at stevenss@newberry.org.

NCAIS is unable to provide funds for travel or lodging, but can assist in locating discounted accommodations. If you would like to receive announcements and updates about NCAIS programs or to subscribe to the NCAIS mailing list, send an email request to mcnickle@newberry.org or call McNickle Center at (312) 255-3564.

Title: Art: Issue 6 'The Resurgence of Indigenous Women's Knowledge and Resistance in Relation to Land and Territoriality: Transnational and Interdisciplinary Perspectives'
Deadline for call: June 15th, 2011
Website: http://www.yorku.ca/intent/submissions.html.

This guest-edited issue of Intensions examines the transformative effects of dissent, resistance, mobilization and social change after five centuries of Indigenous political engagement and corporeal interaction with the Empire. We welcome submissions that explore how Indigenous women engage with territory, relate to land and its gifts as well as submissions that interrogate the manifestations of colonial structures, policies, and controls over territory in all settings inclusive of the urban environment.

Scholar Sandy Grande reflected critically on "inherent tensions between the feminist and indigenous political projects" that arise from the Conventional focus of 'whitestream' feminism on individual rights and gender equality in the marketplace (Grande 2004, 150-151). As Grande argues, the individualism of this perspective lacks crucial insight into the multigenerational effects of territorial and cultural dispossession on indigenous women and their families and communities. If, as Dian Million determined Euro-Canadian and American feminism "successfully reordered the political significance of familial 'privacy'" . . . and further determined that "private" acts were Political these campaigns did not "immediately empower Native women." However, the conception of private as political has been effectively reframed by Indigenous women who use "strategies and languages that located them within the heart of their own experiences" (Million, AIQ June 2008, 269).

This issue of Intensions anticipates innovative and nuanced insights regarding past and present resistance, activism and revitalization of Indigenous women's relations to territory. The editors seek a diverse range of interdisciplinary and transnational submissions including fiction, poetry, storytelling, theatre, historical and cultural critical analysis, oral interviews, and visual art-including digital projects (audio, video, animation, web-based), body work, spoken word, performance, and site-specific installation.

Guest co-editors: Wanda Nanibush, Leanne Simpson, Carol Williams

Please send copies of submissions to all three editors: Leanne Simpson
(leannesimpson@sympatico.ca), Carol Williams (carolwilliams@trentu.ca),
And Wanda Nanibush (wnanibush@gmail.com).

Style and submission guidelines can be accessed and downloaded at http://www.yorku.ca/intent/submissions.html

Title: Governor General’s Canadian Leadership Conference
Deadline to Apply: September 30,2011.
Dates: June 1-15, 2012

The Canadian Leadership Conference occurs only once every four years, and brings together 230 promising leaders from Canada’s business, labour, government, Aboriginal, arts and NGO communities for two weeks from June 1 – 15, 2012.

All members share one thing: they are high potential individuals selected on the basis they are expected to achieve senior leadership positions in their organizations and communities within 10 years. The Conference attracts exceptional speakers from Canada and around the world. In the 2004 and 2008 conferences, participants were privileged to hear speakers such as Archbishop Emeritus Desmond Tutu; National Chief Phil Fontaine; Sheila Watt-Cloutier; Bernard Kouchner; Nobel Peace Prize-winning founder of Doctors Without Borders; His Highness the Aga Khan; Indra Nooyi, now CEO of Pepsico; Cirque du Soleil founder Guy Laliberté; and Canadian Chief Justice Beverley McLachlin.

The Conference theme in 2012 is Leadership and Sustainable Communities. The Conference will use a variety of experiences to explore the changing nature of communities, social engagement, citizenship, education, and belonging. Deadline is September 30, 2011. www.leadershipcanada.ca

Title: Christopher B. Duro Fellowship
Deadline: June 30th, 2011
Website: www.sctei.org.

The Christopher B. Duro Fellowship is a merit and need based fellowship for Native students pursuing graduate study to help the advancement of Native communities. Students who are chosen to be Duro Fellows will be eligible for up to $25,000 per year, based on need and will be required to perform community service hours with the Southern California Tribal Education Institute and publish a scholarly article. Preference will be given to first-generation Native graduate students.

Incomplete applications will not be reviewed!

Contact Information: Christopher B. Duro Fellowship Coordinator - sctei@yahoo.com
Notification of Awards: August 2011

Turkish Coalition of America (TCA) is a Washington, DC-based educational nonprofit organization that seeks to foster a better understanding of US-Turkish relations and Turkish Americans. In partial fulfillment of our mission, we have been administering a scholarship program for Native American, African American and Hispanic American students to study abroad in Turkey since 2008. We have funding to support up to 100 Native American, African American and Hispanic American students per calendar year. Since the inception of the program, we have seen a steady increase in the number of applications that reached 70 in 2010. We have so far awarded 100 students scholarships.

TCA’s efforts to build educational bridges between Turkey and US have lead to Turkish universities to offer their own scholarship programs. Bahcesehir University in Istanbul – a private, social-sciences focused university – offers up to 8 tuition scholarships to African American, Hispanic American and Native American students on a first-come, first-served basis. Eligible students who are admitted to Bahcesehir can receive a 2,000 USD scholarship from TCA.

Istanbul Technical University (ITU), Turkey’s oldest university and a leader in engineering, has announced a comprehensive scholarship program (tuition, room, monthly stipend) exclusively for Native American students. ITU will award 10 students per semester, who can also receive a 2,000 USD scholarship from TCA.

Finally, Ozyegin University (OzU) - a private university also based in Istanbul – has been administering an excellent 4-week summer program. While OzU doesn’t have a scholarship program for students, the Honorary Representative of the Hopi Tribe to Turkey (appointed due to TCA’s efforts), has agreed to provide 2 Native American students 2,500 USD scholarships on a first-come, first-served basis.

TCA scholarship applications are accepted on a rolling basis. For more information on the scholarships, please kindly visit us at http://www.tc-america.org/scholarship/scholar_minority.html.

Of the 100 scholarship recipients TCA has helped sponsor over the past 3 years, only 7 have been Native Americans. We sincerely hope that you will inform Native American students at Harvard about these opportunities in Turkey.

Please don’t hesitate to contact me if you have any questions.

Zeynep Guven
Project Manager
Turkish Coalition of America
1025 Connecticut Avenue, NW | Suite 1000
Washington, DC 20036
E. zguven@tc-america.org
P. 202-370-1399 ext. 06

Title: AIGC Fellowship
Deadline: June 1, 2011
Website: www.aigcs.org

AIGC Fellowship program requirements:
Pursuing a master, doctoral or professional degree as a full-time student at an accredited graduate school in the United States and;
Able to demonstrate financial need and;
An enrolled member of a U.S. Federally recognized American Indian tribe or Alaska Native group, or possess one fourth (1/4) degree U.S. federally recognized Indian blood.
You do not have to be admitted into a graduate degree program at the time of application.

Title: Summer 2011 Paid Research Internship

The Choctaw Nation of Oklahoma Office of Tribal Research is looking for a motivated, enthusiastic college student to assist with research work over the summer. If you don't have any summer plans, want to gain valuable experience to add to your resume and would like to make some extra spending money this might be just for you! This opportunity will include:
-Research related to economics, education, information technology, and social sciences
-Processing information for data warehouse
-Field research, interviews, and focus groups

If interested, send your resume, transcript, and one letter of recommendation from a University faculty member to:

Jake Dolezal
Director of Tribal Research
Choctaw Nation of Oklahoma
E-mail: jdolezal@choctawnation.com (preferred)

Mailing Address:
PO Box 1210
Durant, OK 74702

Workload may be less than full-time with negotiable hours during the normal business week. Intern will be paid as a consultant and not an employee of the Tribe. No benefits or guarantee of future employment with the Tribe will be offered. Preference may be given to Native Americans and/or members of the Choctaw Nation of Oklahoma.

Title: All-expense paid Summer Institute in Cardiovascular Genetic Epidemiology

Location: Washington University in St Louis, School of Medicine.
Dates: July 13-August 3, 2011.
Deadline: Rolling admissions until all slots are filled.

All-expense paid Summer Institute in Cardiovascular Genetic Epidemiology at Washington University in St Louis, School of Medicine. The dates for the first summer are July 13-August 3, 2011. We are accepting applications now with a rolling admissions until all slots are filled.

Our Program to Increase Diversity Among Individuals in Health-Related Research (PRIDE) is an all-expense-paid research training opportunity sponsored by the National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute (NHLBI). This mentored program will address the difficulties experienced by junior investigators in establishing independent research programs and negotiating through the academic ranks. The desired outcome is to improve the recruitment and retention of faculty from disabled and underrepresented minority groups in the study of heart, lung, blood, and sleep disorders.

The all-expense-paid program brings participants to the University for 3-week sessions during two consecutive summers, with a short mid-year visit and an Annual Workshop/Conference for all PRIDE Mentees and Mentors across 6 programs and the NHLBI. The PRIDE program provides mentor-mentee partnerships with matching based on common research interests. The mentors are experienced in research and grant writing and will offer long-term collaborations. The didactic curriculum's involve faculty and mentors from multiple disciplines with various levels of hands-on training. Special emphasis is placed on developing grantsmanship skills, with mentors assisting mentees one-on-one to develop specific research projects and improve long-term fundability. NHLBI scientific program staff will provide a grants workshop to assist mentees with project focus and to identify viable funding sources to promote a sustainable independent research program for career advancement.

For additional details about the PRIDE Program visit: http://www.biostat.wustl.edu/pridege/
A brochure and poster may be found at: http://www.biostat.wustl.edu/pridege/index_files/page447.htm