Events, Conferences & Trainings
Navajo Nation Government Forum
When: Wednesday October 28, 2009
5.30pm to 8.30pm
Where: Sandra Day O'Connor College of Law
"Great Hall" Lecture Room, ASU
OPEN TO THE PUBLIC
ASU Sponsors:
- Indian Legal Program
- American Indian Policy Institute
- American Indian Student Sipport Services
- Multicultural Student Services
- ASU Navajo Students For politics Committee
- Phoenix Indian Center
- American Indian Council
For more Information please contact Kate Rosier (480) 965-6204
Tribal Financial Manager Certificate Program
The inaugural program was held on September 1, 2 and 3 at ASU Tempe Campus!
National Congress of American Indians
2009 Mid-Year Conference
"Tribal Nations Investing in the Future"
Niagara Falls, NY
June 14-17, 2009
- Joint Air Toxics Assessment Project: A Successful Multi-jurisdictional Environmental Science Research Partnership
~ Patricia Mariella, Ph.D., Director, American Indian Policy Institute, Arizona State Univ.
~ Margaret Cook, Director, Gila River Indian Community Dept. of Environmental Quality
~ Ondrea Barber, Interim Director, Environmental and Natural Resoruces Dept., Salt River Pima-Maricopa Indian Community
Environmental Workshop
May 27, 2009
The application of federal environmental law in Indian Country was the focus of a recent workshop presented by the ASU American Indian Policy Institute and the Sandra Day O'Connor College of Law. The workshop was held May 27 for the Salt River Pima-Maricopa Indian Community's Environmental Protection and Natural Resources Department in the state-of-art training room at the new Salt River government complex.
Ann Marie Downes, an attorney and director of the Indian Legal Program Graduate Programs in the College of Law, and Patricia Mariella, the institute's director, conducted the workshop.
Among discussion topics were well-known cases in Indian law, including Dura v. Reina, which originated on the Salt River-Maricopa Indian Community. Other discussion centered on the development of federal Indian policy, civil and regulatory jurisdictional issues.
The workshop is the first of several on environmental compliance and enforcement that the Institute will be conducting with the Salt River Pima-Maricopa Indian Community, according to Mariella.
"The community is a national leader in tribal environmental management, having been the first to develop a pesticide regulatory program in the late 1970s," she said.
ASU's American Indian Policy Institute provides technical assistance for tribal governments in the development of policies, law and structure. It also provides information to state, local and federal policymakers concerning Indian law and policy.
REEL/NATIVE AT ASU
Real/Natives at ASU would like to celebrate this project by inviting you to view a few of the short videos shown as part of the ‘We Shall Remain’ five-part documentary series recently presented at the Heard Museum and on Eight/KAET-TV(AZPBS).
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The Simon Ortiz and Labriola Center Lecture on Indigenous Land, Culture, and Community
The Simon Ortiz and Labriola Center Lecture on Indigenous Land, Culture, and Community at Arizona State University addresses topics and issues across disciplines in the arts, humanities, sciences, and politics. Underscoring Indigenous American experiences and perspectives, this series seeks to create and celebrate knowledge that evolves from an Indigenous worldview that is inclusive and that is applicable to all walks of life.
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Monday, March 23, 2009 :: "Resurgence of Traditional Ways of Being: Indigenous Paths of Action and Freedom"
Lecture by Gerald Taiaiake Alfred
Heard Museum Downtown
2301 N. Central Avenue (Central & Encanto)
Phoenix, AZ 85004
602.252.8848
On the Encanto & Central Light Rail stop!
7:00 p.m. Lecture | 8:00 p.m. Reception and Booksigning
Free of charge and open to the public.
Professor of Indigenous Governance at the University of Victoria (Canada), Gerald Taiaiake Alfred is known for his leadership and groundbreaking research in the fields of Indigenous governance, philosophy and history, and also for his incisive social and political criticism. He has been awarded a Canada Research Chair, a National Aboriginal Achievement Award in the field of education, and the Native American Journalists Association award for best column writing. Educated at Concordia and Cornell, Taiaiake lectures at universities and colleges in Canada, the United States, England and Australia, and serves as an advisor on land and governance issues for his own and many other Indigenous governments and organizations. His writing includes numerous scholarly articles and contributed essays in newspapers and journals, as well as three books: the influential and best-selling Peace, Power, Righteousness (2008), now in its second edition; Wasáse (2005), a runner-up for the McNally Robinson Aboriginal Book of the Year in 2005; and, Heeding the Voices of Our Ancestors (1995).
Gerald Taiaiake Alfred: “Regeneration as the direct application of the principle of acting against our ingrained and oppressive fears. Restitution as the application of the principles of clarity and honesty to politics. Resurgence as the principle of courageous action against injustice. . . . The conciliatory, victimized and raging pathways that form our present framework are easy for the settler to co-opt, manipulate or defeat–this is why they have huge public and government support as the framework for resolving the colonial problem and have become the paradigm of post-colonial colonialism.”
More information: http://english.clas.asu.edu/indigenous
**NEW** -- ASU Campus Reception for Gerald Taiaiake Alfred
March 23, 2009 | 3:00 p.m.
Labriola Center, Hayden Library (LIB) ASU
Hosted by the Labriola National American Data Center
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Gerald Taiaiake Alfred’s lecture is sponsored by Arizona State University’s Department of English, American Indian Studies Program, American Indian Policy Institute, Labriola National American Indian Data Center, Department of History, and Women and Gender Studies Program, with support from the Heard Museum.
December 2008 Events
American Indian Policy Institute and the Law school honor first Native American regent
New Arizona Board of Regents member LuAnn Leonard (Right) is congratulated by friends and colleagues during a reception held in her honor at the ASU School of Law Armstrong rotunda on the Tempe campus on Wednesday, December 3, 2008.
State Press Article on LuAnn Leonard
November 2008 Events
Tribal Planning Workshop
View the Tribal Planning Workshop Report
