Monthly Announcements
May 2008
1. Oxford English Dictionary
Online
2. Final Report: Law Enforcement
and Criminal Justice Under Public Law 280
3. Wisconsin American Indian Studies Email Discussion List
4.
Death of Paula Gunn Allen
5. Native American Tube
6.
Twenty-First Century Warriors: Understanding the Changing Faces and
Needs of
Native Students
7.
Indian Country's Winning Hand: 20
Years of the IGRA (Indian Gaming
Regulatory Act) CLE Conference
8.
World Indigenous Peoples' Conference on Education, (WIPCE)
9.
Museums learning 2.0
10. Partnerships for Indian Education
11. Maryland
Indian tribes get state holiday
12. Saving a Language
13. Library and Information Science: A Guide to
Online Resources
1. Oxford
English Dictionary Online
SIL is conducting a trial of the Oxford English Dictionary
Online. Please take a look at it. Please let me know if it would be useful to
you in your research and writing. For example, would it be helpful in finding
the right word or phrase for articles, columns and other written projects?
Would it help curatorial and collection staff in describing museum objects and
making nomenclature decisions?
To begin using the OED Online, go to
http://dictionary.oed.com/entrance.dtl
Once you are at the site, you may immediately begin using
the OED Online by utilizing the "Find Word" option to quickly locate
a headword entry (upper right) or using "Search" (bottom right) to
search the full text or other indexes. The "Help" file is quite
detailed and has many helpful examples of how to best use the OED Online.
In addition, an OED Online tutorial is now available for
download in zipped Powerpoint format (2.9MB) at: http://dictionary.oed.com/services/tutorial.html.
This useful tool can help you understand the power of the OED Online website
and the search options available to you.
The trial expires on June 20, 2008.
2. Final Report: Law Enforcement and Criminal
Justice Under Public Law 280
Professors Carole Goldberg and Duane Champagne are co-principal investigators for
a research grant from the U.S. Department of Justice to conduct the first
nationwide study of law enforcement under Public Law 280. This two-year,
$300,000 grant collected crime and victimization data, and carried out more
than 300 intensive interviews with law enforcement officers, tribal officials,
criminal justice personnel, and tribal members at 16 different reservation
sites in Public Law 280 and non-Public Law 280 states. This report analyzes positive and negative
aspects of state criminal jurisdiction in Indian country, and recommends
strategies for improving law enforcement for reservations currently subject to Public
Law 280.
http://www.law.ucla.edu/docs/pl280_study.pdf
3. Wisconsin
American Indian Studies Email Discussion List
The wi-aislist is designed to facilitate interactive,
electronic communication among the Wisconsin Department of Public Instruction
(DPI), educators, and others with an interest in the history, culture, and
tribal sovereignty of the federally-recognized tribes and bands in Wisconsin.
http://dpi.wi.gov/amind/ai-list.html
4. Death of Paula Gunn Allen
Distributed via the SAIL Discussion Group…
Paula Gunn Allen died on 29 May at 10:43 p.m. Her daughter, Laura Lee
Brown, just called to let me know. She will be buried in Fort Bragg,
California. Those who wish to memorialize her are
encouraged to make
donations in her memory to the Lannan Foundation; last year,
it gave her
two-year fellowship.
Paula was a very dear friend for over thirty years. She called a couple
of weeks ago to tell me she had been diagnosed with terminal
lung cancer
and had four to six months to live. After we talked about her illness,
she joked about the election. She laughed at the irony of the fact that
she would not live to see the first person of color, Barak
Obama, elected
president. "Just
my luck," she said. When I spoke to her last week, she
was very weak and unable to get out of bed.
When the family sends me an obituary, I will forward it.
It is thirty-one years since she directed the MLA-NEH Summer
Seminar on Contemporary Native American Literature, held in Flagstaff in 1977. She edited the volume that came out of that seminar: STUDIES IN
AMERICAN INDIAN LITERATURE: CRITICAL ESSAYS AND COURSE DESIGNS
(1983), the first book on teaching this literature. Her SACRED HOOP: RECOVERING
THE FEMININE IN AMERICAN INDIAN TRADITIONS (1986)influenced many scholars. A
very talented creative writer, Paula published several volumes of poetry and a novel, THE WOMAN WHO OWNED THE SHADOWS (1983). She also edited collections of Native American literature. Her most recent
book was POCAHONTAS: MEDICINE WOMAN, SPY, ENTREPRENEUR, DIPLOMAT (2003).
Sadly,
LaVonne Brown Ruoff
5. Native American Tube
Mya Littleboy Rubio and her husband
Jerry Geronimo Rubio live in two worlds. Mya is a full-blooded Cree from Alberta, Canada
and Geronimo Rubio is an Apache from Arizona.
Like many Native Americans, they fight to keep connected to the rich traditions
and history. The Rubios turned to the
Web and built their own online TV network, Native American Tube -- and it has changed their life and the
lives of others. They have literally plugged in, and are proving to be a
powerful tonic for tens of thousands of culture-hungry Native Americans.
http://natube.magnify.net/
6. Twenty-First Century Warriors: Understanding
the Changing Faces and Needs of Native Students
The mission of the National Institute for Native Leadership
in Higher Education (NINLHE) is to transform higher education in the United States and Canada in ways that improve the
experiences and educational outcomes of Native students, which includes Native
American, Alaska Native, Native Hawaiian, and Aboriginal peoples. It will be held at Hyatt Tamaya Resort &
Spa, Santa Ana Pueblo, NM on August
3-7, 2008.
http://ninlhe.unm.edu/
7. Indian Country's Winning Hand: 20 Years of the IGRA (Indian Gaming
Regulatory Act) CLE Conference
The Indian Gaming Regulatory Act was enacted in 1988, and in the following
20 years Indian gaming has grown dramatically. This commemorative conference
will examine the history and impact of the IGRA and the Indian gaming industry
through the eyes of tribal leaders, scholars and those who were there when the
IGRA became law. It will be held at the Radisson
Fort McDowell Resort & Casino in Scottsdale/Fountain Hills, AZ on October 16-17, 2008.
http://ilp.law.asu.edu/
8. World Indigenous Peoples' Conference on
Education, (WIPCE)
The World Indigenous Peoples Conference: Education (WIPCE)
is a triennial conference of international significance that attracts peoples
from around the globe to celebrate and share diverse cultures, traditions and
knowledge with a focus on world Indigenous education. The purpose of WIPC:E is
to provide a forum to come together, share and learn and promote best practice
in Indigenous education policies, programs and practice.
To be held on the traditional lands of the Kulin Nation, Melbourne, Australia
from 7th - 11th December 2008, WIPCE 2008 will be a celebration of our diverse
cultures, traditions and knowledge. It will provide us with the opportunity to
showcase our efforts to provide educational experiences suitable to our
individual and unique communities and will be a time to rejoice in our
strengths and capacity to uphold our traditions and knowledge systems. It will
also be a chance to consider how we, as Indigenous people, would like to see
education shaped into the future to meet our needs. It is Australia's Indigenous peoples'
vision that WIPCE 2008 will be solidly embedded in community knowledge.
http://www.wipce2008.com/
9. Museums learning 2.0
A new online course found in the Canadian Heritage
Information Network (CHIN) Knowledge Exchange.offers 14 practical, step by step
exercises that guide users through the creation of blogs, podcasts, wikis, RSS
feeds and other online communications tools typically referred to as Web 2.0
applications.
http://chin.gc.ca/ATutor/login.php
10. Partnerships for Indian Education
The Partnerships for Indian Education Conference to be held
in Rapid City, South Dakota, July 8-10, 2008, is called for by Executive Order
13336 and provide an opportunity for Indian education partners to participate
and engage in an effective dialogue on furthering the academic success of
Native American students.
www.indianeducation.org/2008conference
11. Maryland
Indian tribes get state holiday
Dozen of members of Maryland Indian tribes, some in native
dress, stood behind Gov, Martin O’Malley as he signed into law a bill
designating the Friday after Thanksgiving as American Indian Heritage Day, a
new state holiday. To read the article
from the May 14, 2008
in the Examiner.com go to:
http://www.examiner.com/a-1390148~Maryland_Indian_tribes_get_state_holiday.html
12. Saving a Language
To read an article concerning a rare book in MIT's archives
that helped linguists revive a long-unused Native American language by Jeffrey
Mifflin published in Technology Review (May/June 2008) go to:
http://technologyreview.com/article/20629/page1/
13. Library and Information Science: A Guide to
Online Resources
"This guide is intended for individuals without ready
access to print resources and subscription databases in the field of library
and information science. It compiles free, full-text resources available on the
Web. ... In addition, the Frequently Asked Questions page provides answers to a
number of the most common library and information science questions received by
the Library of Congress." From the Virtual Services Digital Reference Team
of the Library of Congress (LOC).
http://www.loc.gov/rr/program/bib/libsci/
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