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Check Out the Indian Country Today Article on NAS Alumna Melissa Leal

3/4/2013

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On February 28th our 2012 alumna Melissa Leal was featured in the Indian Country Today article "California Educator Bridges the Generation Gap with Hip Hop" written by Marc Dadigan . Congratulations Melissa!
Melissa Leal is currently working as the American Indian Program Educator in the Elk Grove Unified School District in Northern California. She will be a keynote speaker at the 2nd Annual NAS Graduate Student Symposium "Weaving the Roots of Knowledge" scheduled to take place April 26th and 27th. Also look for her upcoming publication in the anthology "Hip Hop and the Law".

                                                                                              Check out the full article here!

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A Thank you and Re-Cap of the 1st Annual NAS Gradaute Student Symposium - "Engaging the Indigenous Americas"

4/17/2012

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The 1st Annual Native American Studies Graduate Student Symposium was a tremendous success! In addition to the 5 moderators, 3 faculty participants, and 19 presenters, over 40 audience members from various departments across campus joined in the dialogues and conversations that took place in the Risling Room of Hart Hall.

For our inaugural year, the Native American Graduate Student Association transformed the Risling Room into a colorful display of student artwork, crafts, and presentations. Entering the room, attendees were greeted with California Indian basket weavings, Diné weavings looms and rugs, and 6 large pieces of Alicia María Siu’s canvas paintings, one of which was Iyat Pahtli (Tabacco Medicine), the symposium’s image for this years theme “Engaging the Indigenous Americas.”
Over the following eight hours, we listened, dialogued, ate, and began the steps of developing interdisciplinary communities. In addition to the stellar presentations from all participants and NAS faculty, moderators and audience members engaged with keen observations, questions, and suggestions that promoted much needed conversations on issues such as hemispheric philosophies, Native American literatures, visual sovereignty, approaches to Native histories, Indigenous epistemologies, and accountabilities to community.

Associate Professor Hulleah Tsinhnahjinnie opened the space with a blessing reminding us of the footprints that we follow as scholars of Native American Studies. While the path through academia may be filled with obstacles, departments like NAS and events like our Graduate Student Symposium are helping to prepare us with tools to face the challenges and enjoy the travels.

Dr. Martha Macri’s keynote talk allowed for personal and professional insight to the hemispheric, interdisciplinary, and multi-lingual philosophies of the UC Davis Native American Studies Department. The day-long event ended with NAS student presentations of creative work, hosted by Dr. Inés Hernández-Avila who opened the session with a song, encapsulating the title of the session: “An evening of flower and song,” and closed the session with a reading for her mother. During the session, Alicia María Siu offered a keynote address about the artwork displayed throughout the day. NAS graduate students followed, highlighting their own creative activities such as California Indian basket weaving, Diné rug weavings, poetry, blog writing, and photography displays, reminding us that art is another facet of critical inquiry, knowledge, theory, and praxis.
After the symposium we left the Risling Room encouraged, not only because of the positive turn out but more importantly, because of the sense of community on the Davis campus. The work presented throughout the day was truly inspiring and reflected the solid work coming from UC Davis graduate students who critically engage Indigenous communities and ways of knowing. We are grateful to everyone who contributed in some form to the success of this event and look forward to next year’s symposium.

Archives of the day’s event will be available in the near future; so don’t forget to check back in with our symposium page.

Thank you from the symposium committee co chairs – Patricia Killelea and Christine M. Willie

Photos are courtesy of NAS Graduate Student Bayu Kristianto
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(NAS Grad Symposium) Thank You To Our First Co-Sponsor the Native American Faculty and Staff Association!

2/9/2012

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A big thank you to the UC Davis Native American Faculty & Staff Association for their generous sponsorship of the 1st Annual NAS Graduate Student Symposium! With their help this event is sure to be a huge success!


Have you filled out your paper proposal yet? 
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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    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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