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NAS Grad Student Patricia Killelea's new poetry book is on the Summer Reading List for UC DAVIS (Sac Bee)

6/27/2011

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Between the Lines: A trove from UC Davis faculty
Read more: http://www.sacbee.com/2011/06/27/3728947/a-trove-from-uc-davis-faculty.html#ixzz1QVFXkGdk

• "Other Suns" by Patricia Killelea (Swan Scythe, $12.95, 38 pages): The doctoral student's poetry deals with nature, conservation and "human engagement," particularly "the ways in which land shapes perception."
Read more: http://www.sacbee.com/2011/06/27/3728947/a-trove-from-uc-davis-faculty.html#ixzz1QVFRHxeo

Purchase Other Suns today!

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UCD NAS Graduate Student Christine Willie receives DPDF Fellowship

6/5/2011

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NAS Graduate Student Christine Willie has received a Dissertation Proposal Development Fellowship (DPDF) from the Social Science Research Council for her project Unheard Memories and Contested Spaces: Diné Historiography and the Spanish Arrival [ project summary ]

With this fellowship students will acquire tools and skills for designing dissertation projects that are methodologically sophisticated, ethically engaged, and politically attuned to Indigenous challenges to colonial legacies and enduring inequalities.

READ MORE about Christine here.

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 DPDF Student Fellowship Competition > DPDF Competition 2011 This DPDF research field on Global Indigenous Politics invites work that contributes to the examination of challenges faced by Indigenous Peoples through critical consideration of relationships between Indigenous Peoples and conventional models of politics and scholarship. Several ideas unite this field. First, indigeneity is not associated with primitive, romantic, or pre-modern rural worlds; Indigenous Peoples are as modern (or post-modern) as anyone else. Second, Indigenous politics is and has always been multi-scalar, articulating the local and global. Third, Indigenous Peoples are not passive objects of research, but active agents in the making, understanding, and decolonizing of the world. Finally, the stakes of Indigenous politics are high, involving issues like resources and territory, gender and racial politics, and state and Native regimes of law, rights, and sovereignty.

These themes raise questions about the epistemologies and practices of both Indigenous politics and academic work. How do Native forms of knowledge production provide alternative strategies for narrating histories, organizing struggle, and theorizing politics? How do Indigenous Peoples organize and represent themselves in debates over citizenship, resources, and participation? How have national and international regimes of recognition affected struggles for equality, inclusion, and self-determination? How do tensions within Indigenous movements shape these dynamics? Why have these struggles yielded a variety of outcomes?

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TWO UCD NAS Grad Students are on their way to Washington DC for the Breath of Life Archival Institute.

6/4/2011

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UCD NAS Grad Students Lori Laiwa and Melissa Leal will attend National Breath of Life Symposium in Washington DC June 12-26.  There are only 40 seats available nationwide!!

CLICK to learn more about Lori and Melissa.

From the Website:

Breath of Life Archival Institute The Endangered Language Fund is pleased to announce the Breath of Life Archival Institute for Indigenous Languages, Washington, DC, June 13-24, 2011 The goal of the Breath of Life Institute is to help Native Americans involved in language revitalization find and make use of materials on their languages that are in the National Anthropological Archives and Library of Congress1. Under the leadership of Lisa Conathan and Leanne Hinton, this two week workshop will allow teams of participants (Native American heritage language learners, teachers and activists) paired with mentors (experts in linguistics who help guide the participants' work) to explore the language resources in archives in the District of Columbia area. Visits to the archives will be supplemented by lectures and workshops on linguistics, language teaching and learning, and related topics.

The Institute is funded by the National Science Foundation's Documenting Endangered Languages program. It will be co-hosted by the Smithsonian Institution's National Anthropological Archives (NAA), National Museum of Natural History (MNH) and National Museum of the American Indian (NMAI), and the American Folklife Center at the Library of Congress (AFC).

The Breath of Life Archival Institute is funded by the Documenting Endangered Languages program of the National Science Foundation .

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Learn More about NAS Grad Student Lori Laiwa

6/1/2011

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NAS Grad Student Lori Laiwa was featured in to articles discussing her research on Pomo language.

Read the UC Davis "Discover What Matters" site here.

Read the Campaign for UC Davis: Advancing Public Service feature here.

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“I believe using indigenous research methodologies, especially reclaiming and revitalizing language, is critical for reviving indigenous cultures and ensuring their longterm sustainability."
-Lori Laiwa - The Campaign for UC Davis


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We're updating information all the time! New Students Posted

6/1/2011

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Since we're still putting the blog and site together we are constantly updating information on each page of the site. Check out our "current student" section to see new updates and get to know a little more about Amber Bill!

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You can find out more about Amber here.

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    Welcome to the Davis Native American Studies Graduate Student Blog. This blog was started as a place to update on all of the amazing work that is being done by the Graduate Students in the UC Davis Native American Studies Department. The Graduate Program in Native American Studies was approved in 1998, making UC Davis only the second university in the nation to offer a Ph.D. in Native American Studies. In Fall 1999, the Department welcomed its first group of students enrolled in the M.A. and Ph.D. Programs in Native American Studies.

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