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The 1st Annual Native American Studies Graduate Student Symposium! (Call for papers) - Open to ALL UC Davis Graduate Students

1/25/2012

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Call for Papers:
1st Annual Native American Studies Graduate Student Symposium
Engaging the Indigenous Americas

Submissions due March 2, 2012


We are pleased to announce the 1st Annual Native American Studies Graduate Student Symposium, to be held on the UC Davis campus on Friday, April 13th, 2012. This year’s theme is “Engaging the Indigenous Americas,” and we welcome proposals from all current UC Davis graduate students whose research critically addresses the issues, concerns, and lives of Indigenous peoples of the Americas (North and South). Graduate students from all disciplines are encouraged to participate in this open hemispheric dialogue. Papers should be in English and 12-15 minutes in length. 

See the full announcement at http://ucdnasgrads.weebly.com/grad-symposium.html
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READ IT: Two NAS Grad Students featured in News Article about presenting at the California Indian Conference!

10/30/2011

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UCD NAS Grad Students Lori Laiwa and Abel Ruiz are both quoted in the article about the California Indian Conference which was held this past weekend. Many of the UCD NAS Grad Students and faculty were there and some presented!

FROM THE ARTICLE:  Lori Laiwa, a Pomo, and Abel Ruiz were both UC Davis graduate students who traveled to Chico to visit and present during the conference. They met up with a professor Laiwa knew from San Francisco State University, Kathy Wallace, who describes herself as a Karuk, Mohawk, Yurok and a member of the Hupa Valley tribes.

Laiwa and Wallace said they attend many such conferences, and it is always a pleasure to see old friends. In addition, both women presented on recent research and participated in several workshops. Ruiz also presented on his research topic, addressing the crowd on the Native American Gravesite Protection and Repatriation Act.

"It's a place where indigenous people can share their projects," Ruiz said.

To see the full article click here
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Breath of Life 2011: My Language Lives by Melissa Leal (NAS Grad Student)

7/15/2011

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UCD NAS Grad Students Lori Laiwa and Melissa Leal attended the National Breath of Life Symposium in Washington DC June 12-26. There were only 40 seats available nationwide. 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 Congres. UCD Grad Student Melissa Leal shares her experience at the Institute.
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Ene lepa Melissa Leal. Ene Esselen-k.  Nish welel cha’a.  My name is Melissa Leal.  I am Esselen. My language lives.  These are important words for me to write but also for others to read.  Esselen is a language and a people.  Both have been deemed “extinct” by anthropologists, in fact, Esselen was probably the first language to be deemed “extinct” in California.  Esselen is an isolate, meaning it isn’t related to any other language and it doesn’t fit in any language group.  In indigenous linguistic circles we like to say that the language is not extinct but is just “sleeping” and it is my goal to wake it up. 

I think that the Breath of Life Archival Institute of 2011, held in Washington D.C has been a great rooster crow for the sun rising in Esselen country.  Breath of Life is definitely a working conference.  Each participant is paired with a mentor who is a linguist.  The linguist that I worked with was Jim Bauman and he was awesome. He was very open and willing to be creative with working on the language.  Esselen doesn’t have any speakers or audio recordings. Therefore, creativity and intuitiveness is important when working on the language.  Every day the participants and linguists met at the National Museum of the American Indian from 8:30 am until 1:00 pm for lectures/workshops, at which point we loaded on to buses to go to places like the Library of Congress or National Anthropological Archives until 5:00 pm.  Then we headed back to the dorms to do our homework.  Although everyone was excited to be finding information and being able to work on their language, we were all exhausted.  This was the schedule for two weeks. 

Unfortunately, none of the archives had any new information or material that was Esselen but three great things came out of the Breath of Life conference for me. 1.  My linguist and I were able to translate a sentence that had never been done before (correctly). 2. My linguist introduced me to a great database and input all of the Esselen words into it.  Now Esselen has a database and I can add and change it quickly and easily. 3. My final project included writing and then reciting a rap in Esselen which was the first for Breath of Life (and my first time rapping in public!)  Breath of Life left me with great ideas for future opportunities and contacts with other “language people” all over the United States. 

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

Melissa Leal  is a descendant of Ohlone and Esselen peoples of Monterey, California. She received her BA from CSU, Sacramento in Ethnic Studies and is currently C.Phil in Native American Studies. Her research includes the reciprocal relationship between Hip Hop Culture and Indigenous Communities. She is also interested in Performance Studies, Popular Culture, and the intersectionalities of descendants of Africa and Indigenous Americans. Melissa also works on revitalizing the Esselen language. She is a lifetime resident of Sacramento County and teaches dance, jewelry making, and classes on revitalizing indigenous languages. Learn more about her here.
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Pics from NAISA: We need to remember to take more pictures of things for the blog!

5/31/2011

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Some pics that we could get our hands on... nothing fancy. Lots of Grad Students from NAS presented at NAISA this year. You can read more about it here. Pictured above is NAS Grad Student Christine Willie during her presentation: Meet at the Top: Diné Knowledge and Scientific Knowledge Contemplate Dibé. And BELOW are Christine and Professor Zoila Mendoza waiting for their presentation panel to begin. NAISA was held May 19-22, 2011 in Sacramento, CA.
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UC Davis Hosts the Native American Indigenous Studies Association Conference - UCD Grad Students Present

5/26/2011

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On May 19-21, the UC Davis Department of Native American Studies hosted the official meeting of the Native American and Indigenous Studies Association (NAISA). The program featured three days of presentations and activities. Several UCD NAS Grad Students presented including:

Brook Colley & Gina Caison: Uneasy Remains: Backyard Documentary, Human Remains, and the University of
California, Davis

Angel Hinzo: One People, Two Nations: The Ho-Chunk/Winnebago and the Implications of the
2000 Enrollment Addendum

Patricia Killelea: Between These Songs: Sherwin Bitsui’s Decolonizing Poetics in “Floodsong”

Cutcha Risling Baldy: NAGPRA 20 Years Later: What Works

Abel Ruiz: Indigenous GIS Mapping: Past and present challenges

James D. Sarmento: Reclamation and Revitalization: identity and language ideology in Native American
Studies

Silvia Soto: Zapatismo and the Buried Knowledges of an Indigenous Consciousness

Christine Willie: Meet at the Top: Diné Knowledge and Scientific Knowledge Contemplate Dibé
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Congrats to NAS Grad Student Lori Laiwa WINNER at the UCD Interdisciplinary Graduate and Professional Student Symposium!

5/26/2011

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The winners of the Interdisciplinary Graduate and Professional Student Symposium have been announced.  UC Davis Native American Studies Grad Student Lori Laiwa received the Dean's Prize for Best Oral Presentation, Division of Humanities, Arts, and Cultural Studies for her presentation:

"Ya Hintil Ha Janon: We Are Speaking Our Language: Unsung Heroes of Language Documentation and Preservation Projects within Central Pomo Language Speaking Communities"

The Interdisciplinary Graduate and Professional Student Symposium (IGPS) is an opportunity for graduate and professional students at UC Davis to share their work with each other, the campus, and the wider community. The three day symposium featured presenters, performers and panels across disciplines and colleges. The symposium was held on April 21-23.
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