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Dreamkeeper.

May 23rd, 2009 Posted in NATIVE HOLLYWOOD | no comment »

Dreamkeeper is a wonderful movie. You and rent it or buy, it is a must see movie. It really makes you see what our people went through.

From the heart of a story came a young man’s journey to the soul.

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Chris Spotted Eagle / Do Indians Shave?

May 13th, 2009 Posted in NATIVE AMERICAN VIDEOS | no comment »

www.youtube.com/user/chrisspottedeagle

A while back, New York’s Fifth Avenue Easter Parade was the unlikely setting for a gentle, ironic probing of a decidedly ungentle fact: even through white Americans no longer think of themselves as conquistadores when they view Indian people, white ignorance and disregard of Indian reality remains massive.

Do Indians Shave? is a series of brief, on-the-street interviews with costumed parade-goers, conducted as the crowds swirl around the subject and the crew. The mood on the street is festive. The interviewer keeps the conversation brief and low-key: he simply asks each subject a few basic questions about Indian people, questions that sound like they belong in a grade-school primer. Out tumbles a potpourri of inane myths, gross inaccuracies, and inadvertent slander of Indian people. These smiling, pleasant people are, unfortunately, perpetuating the lies that have been used to justify genocide, and the mindless indifference, or at best, mild and inactive concern, that makes possible the continuing oppression of Indian people. And it’s all such good fun on a sunny Easter Day.

Question: Is the gross ignornace about Indigenous peoples still prevalent?

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Native American and Indigenous Studies Association (NAISA)

May 12th, 2009 Posted in GROUPS & ORGANIZATIONS, NATIVE AMERICAN VIDEOS | no comment »

http://amin.umn.edu/naisa2009/#committee

Nov 29th, 2008 Posted in GROUPS & ORGANIZATIONS | Edit | no comment »

May 21-23, 2009 the Department of American Indian Studies at the University of Minnesota will host the first meeting of the Native American and Indigenous Studies Association (NAISA). This is the third of three meetings that culminated in the creation of a new professional organization for scholars who work in American Indian/Native American/First Nations/Aboriginal/Indigenous Studies. The Native American Studies program at the University of Oklahoma, Norman hosted the first meeting in May of 2007, and the Institute of Native American Studies at the University of Georgia hosted the second meeting in April of 2008.

The American Indian Studies Department at the U of M is excited to host the third meeting. 2009 marks the 40th anniversary of the department’s founding – the oldest such program in the country with departmental status. Founded amidst the civil rights struggles of the sixties and early seventies, the department has long been committed to the development of theories and methodologies that reflect American Indian perspectives and it embraces ways of knowing that stand in contrast to the linear analytic Euro-American studies typically found in colleges and universities. The department’s base of formally educated and institutionally trained academicians is being supplemented increasingly by community resource people, including traditional leaders, elders and American Indian artists, writers, film makers, and musicians. Incorporation of such contributors into the teaching program acknowledges unique cultural wisdom and skills that are not typically available in formal, western institutions, but that are nonetheless essential to an understanding of American Indian cultures.

A local host committee of faculty and staff members will arrange accommodations, meeting space, and a set of events that will give conference participants an opportunity to experience the beautiful Twin Cities and U of M campus.

Contact members of the Acting Council if you have questions or concerns.

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