AISA @ UCI | Native American Heritage Month

Wednesday, November 12, 2008
Speaker: Dr. Paul Apodaca (Navajo)
4:00pm, Location TBA

Red Cents & Indian Country: Native Claims to Things
November 24-26, 2008
Organized by Dr. Bill Maurer & Dr. Justin Richland

Nov 24-25 (Borrego Springs) Presentations:
Location: La Casa Del Zorro Desert Resort

Larry Nesper, Department of Anthropology and American Indian Studies, University of Wisconsin-Madison, Early 20th century community life at McCord and Skunk Hill: An ethnohistorical perspective on traditionality, authenticity, and affluence

Matthew Fletcher, Michigan State University School of Law, Tribal Sovereignty As Property

Bruce Granville Miller, Department of Anthropology, University of British Columbia, The Only Good Indian is a Capitalist
and Other Dilemmas in a Resource Extraction Province

David Kamper, Dept. of American Indian Studies, San Diego State University, �Rich Indian� Managers and Tribal Labor Relations

Eve Darian-Smith, Law and Society, UCSB, Polarizing Identities, Galvanizing Opinions: Exploiting the rhetoric of equality in the appropriating of Indian casino revenue in California's budgetary crisis

Angela R. Riley, Southwestern School of Law, A Wealth of Knowledge

Carole Goldberg, Professor of Law and Faculty Chair, Native Nations Law & Policy Center, UCLA Returning Ancestral Indian Lands: Too Rich for Just Desserts

Jessica R. Cattelino, UCLA, Settler and Indigenous Commensuration

Audra Simpson, Department of Anthropology, Columbia University, Contemporary Liberalism, Indigenous Politics and The Political Economy of Tears

Duane Champagne, UCLA, The Effects of Changing Land and Market Relations on Political Process Among American Indians

Nov. 26 (UC Irvine):
Forum on Issues in Indigenous Studies in Southern California, 12-2pm
Department of Anthropology Library, Social Science Plaza Building B, room 4250

Carole Goldberg, Professor UCLA School of Law

David Kamper SDSU American Indian Studies

Justin B. Richland, UC Irvine, Criminology, Law and Society, and Anthropology

Bill Maurer, UC Irvine, Anthropology

Time:
Wednesdays at 4pm
Weeks 1-10

Place:
Cross Cultural Center, AISA Office

The American Indian Student Association (A.I.S.A.) was founded in 1974. A.I.S.A.'s purpose is to support the academic and social education of American Indian Students at UC, Irvine. Initially providing a comfortable environment for Native American Students and Faculty in addition to promoting awareness to the campus community by sharing our cultural heritage. All UCI students are welcome.

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