Announcements
“Why They Had To Go: Statement on the Fall of the Pioneer Statues” by NAS and IRES Faculty
Click here to read the statement from the Eugene Weekly.
Yakama grad student interviewed for Ichiishkiin language work
OPB interviewed Yakama graduate student Keegan Livermore for his work with Ichiishkiin language. Livermore, a graduate student in UO’s Language Teaching Studies program, developed an Ichiishkiin keyboard app for use on android phones and is in the process of developing one for iOS phones. He speaks here with OPB’s Dave Miller.
UO Indigenous Pre-College Academy 2020: Apply Now!
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What: University of Oregon is pleased to offer the Indigenous Pre-College Academy (IPCA). This summer academy aims to create a cohort of college-bound Indigenous students. Over the course of this eight-day program, the students will be acquainted with the UO’s campus, facilities, students, and staff. We hope to foster an early sense of comfortability on college campuses that will make the transition into higher education that much easier for our students. Students will stay in our new Kalapuya Ilihi residence hall and experience living and learning on a college campus.
The academy’s classes and workshops will cover college prep, the admissions process, financial aid, navigating predominantly white institutions as a native scholar, professional development, health and wellness, cultural knowledge, and various academic areas. The ultimate goal for this academy is to help prepare our native students for college, offer them a chance to meet other youth from around the state and beyond, and build their academic confidence. Native students belong in spaces of higher education, and this program will offer them a chance to start claiming space NOW.
Where: University of Oregon, Eugene, OR
When: Sunday, July 19–Sunday, July 26, 2020
Eligibility: IPCA is open to all high school students who will be in grades 9-12 in the coming school year. Priority will be given to rising juniors and seniors who are enrolled citizens from the nine federally recognized tribes of Oregon or from the other 34 recognized tribes in our statewide compact. We also accept applications from students who self-identify as part of an indigenous community, including Native Hawaiian students, Alaska Native students, or any of the other federally or state recognized tribes and bands across the US.
Price: IPCA is a free program. Housing and meals are provided. Students will need to arrange their own travel to and from Eugene.
Application Process: Applications for IPCA are now open. The deadline to apply is April 15, 2020. Please note, this application requires several essay responses and gives applicants an opportunity to attach additional documents. The application does not allow applicants to save their answers and come back to them later. Please allow enough time to finish the application before starting. Applicants may preview the essay prompts and required additional documents by clicking the apply button below. To ensure the application process goes smoothly, it is recommended that students preview the application requirements and essay prompts first, and then have essays pre-written and additional documents ready to upload before filling out the application. Click below to preview the prompts or start the application.
Becoming an IPCA Counselor: We will seek current college students to act as counselors for the program. Applications for counselors will open in early February 2020. The application deadline is April 15, 2020.
Contact Info: Luis Renteria, senior assistant director for multicultural recruitment, 541-346-1176, luisrent@uoregon.edu
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NAS Professor Kirby Brown’s book wins award!
NAS is proud to announce that Professor Kirby Brown’s book, Stoking the Fire: Nationhood in Cherokee Writing, 1907-1970, was awarded the Thomas J. Lyons prize by the Western Literature Association for the best single-authored book published in Western American literary studies in 2018.
Published by the University of Oklahoma Press and illustrated by Cherokee artist Roy Boney, the book examines how four Cherokee writers–John Milton Oskison, Rachel Caroline Eaton, Rollie Lynn Riggs, and Ruth Muskrat Bronson–variously remembered, imagined, and enacted Cherokee nationhood in the period between Oklahoma statehood in 1907 and tribal reorganization in the early 1970s.
Often read as a period of assimilationist resignation or accommodationist ambivalence, Kirby recovers this period as a rich archive of Cherokee literary and intellectual production with much to teach us about questions of sovereignty, nationhood, citizenship, community, and belonging across Indian Country and Native American and Indigenous Studies today.
Congratulations, Kirby!
Jennifer O’Neal (Grand Ronde) Awarded Henry Roe Cloud Dissertation Fellowship at Yale University
Congratulations to Jennifer O’Neal (Confederated Tribes of Grand Ronde), Corrigan Solari University Historian and Archivist, for being awarded the Henry Roe Cloud Dissertation Writing Fellowship at Yale University! Sponsored by the Yale Group for the Study of Native America (YGSNA), the Henry Roe Cloud Dissertation Writing Fellowship in American Indian and Indigenous Studies has helped to develop American Indian Studies at Yale by facilitating the completion of the doctorate by scholars working on pressing issues related to the American Indian experience and Indigenous Studies. The Fellowship supports a graduate scholar in any doctoral field for the 2018-2019 academic year to work toward completion of the dissertation during the fellowship year.
The Henry Roe Cloud Fellowship honors the legacy of Henry Roe Cloud, a member of the Winnebago Nation of Nebraska and graduate of Yale College, 1910. A tireless critic of federal Indian assimilation programs and a proponent of increased educational opportunities for American Indians, Roe Cloud transformed American Indian higher education through his leadership of the Society of American Indians, his founding of the American Indian Institute, and as co-author of “The Problem of Indian Administration,” commonly known as “The Meriam Report,” an extensive survey made at the request of Secretary of the Interior that detailed the appalling failures of federal Indian policy in the early twentieth century. This survey, presented to Congress in 1928, helped to set in motion many of the subsequent reforms of the Indian New Deal.
The fellow will work in close affiliation with the Ethnicity, Race, and Migration Program and will have access to Yale’s exceptional research libraries. The Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library, in addition to its premier collection of Western Americana, also holds the papers of many important American Indian writers, including Joseph Bruchac, Leslie Marmon Silko, N. Scott Momaday, Gerald Vizenor, and James Welch, as well as those of important policy makers such as Felix Cohen and Richard Henry Pratt. Manuscripts and Archives at Sterling Memorial Library holds the papers of John Collier and Henry Roe Cloud.
The Roe Cloud Fellow will also have the opportunity to participate in the activities of the recently established Yale Center for the Study of Race, Indigeneity, and Transnational Migration (RITM). The Center supports research and teaching on race, indigenous studies, and migration by advancing interdisciplinary research and teaching on these topics at Yale; connecting faculty members, students, existing research efforts, administrative units, and relevant courses of study in new and innovative ways; and promoting collaborations between members of the Yale Community and beyond, through partnerships with local, national, and international institutions, organizations, and individuals. Other opportunities include activities at the Howard R. Lamar Center for the Study of Frontiers and Borders; the Native American Cultural Center; as well as the YGSNA working group. Formed in 2003 to bring together the intellectual community at Yale working in the area of Native American Studies, YGSNA organizes bi-monthly workshops throughout the academic year as well as related academic events on campus. (http://ygsna.sites.yale.edu)
Jennifer will work toward completing her dissertation in history from Georgetown University that focuses on an interdisciplinary approach to the examination of the social, political, and historical intersections of Native American transnational activism within the late twentieth century, centered within the field of indigenous studies and foreign relations.
NAS English Professor Kirby Brown (Cherokee Nation) featured in OsiyoTV segment on Cherokee playwright Lynn Riggs
In this episode, Brown speaks about Bronson’s almost six-decade-long career of service and activism on behalf of Native peoples, communities, and nations. In addition to teaching alongside Ella Deloria and Henry Roe Cloud at Haskell Institute, Bronson also founded the American Indian Higher Education Scholarship Program while an employee at the Bureau of Indian Affairs and was a founding member and executive officer for the National Congress of American Indians. As Brown notes in the feature, “Ruth Muskrat Bronson is one of the most important American Indian figures of the early 20th century who almost no one knows of or writes about.” Brown’s work on Bronson’s life and work seeks to change that.
The interviews were recorded during the Cherokee National Holiday in Tahlequah, Oklahoma over Labor Day weekend. The Holiday remembers and honors the arrival in Indian Territory of the last detachments of Cherokee people forcibly removed from their homelands in the US Southeast on the Trail of Tears in 1839.
UO Language Revitalization Lab: Call for Consultation
Gabriela Pérez Báez, Assistant Professor in the Department of Linguistics and member of Native Strategies, will be setting up a Language Revitalization Lab in the Department of Linguistics at the University of Oregon. Broadly speaking, language revitalization refers to efforts intended to support the use of a language, with a focus on those languages that are endangered.
Dr. Pérez Báez would like to invite anyone to whom the topic of language revitalization is relevant to join her for a consultation towards planning the Language Revitalization Lab. The consultations will be held in the following times and locations:
- October 11 at 10:30am at the Northwest Indian Language Institute, 1629 Moss St.
- October 23 at 4pm in the Language Revitalization Lab, 261 Straub
Please let her know at https://goo.gl/forms/aDznNCQck
Click here for more on Dr. Pérez Báez’s work.