Call for papers for the 8th Annual Indigenous and American Studies Storyteller's of the America's Conference on March 23 and 24, 2012. This year's conference is entitled 'Challenging Settler Colonialism'. This broad theme encompasses both theoretical and practical work and is applicable to research and analyses in various academic disciples. We invite researchers, teachers and community members in the fiels of Indigneous and American Studies to contribute work on all aspects of Indigenous and America knowledge, language and culture.

On October 25-26, 2012 the School for Advanced Research, Indian Pueblo Cultural Center, and Leadership Institute at the Santa Fe Indian School will host a Pueblo Indian Studies Symposium in honor of Joe Sando at the Indian Pueblo Cultural Center in Albuquerque, NM. Sando, a noted historian, was deeply committed to the study of Pueblo Nations and cultures and inspired many to pursue research and writing projects on the Pueblos. Through this symposium, Joe Sando’s legacy will be honored by highlighting current research in the field of Pueblo Indian studies.

(Carta remitida por: Luis E. Cárcamo-Huechante, carcamohuechante@austin.utexas.edu)

17 de Diciembre de 2011
Sr. James Anaya
Relator Especial sobre la Situación de Derechos Humanos y Libertades Fundamentales de los Pueblos indígenas
Naciones Unidas
Presente.

Distinguido Sr. Relator James Anaya:

En las últimas semanas, una severa acción represiva de la policía chilena se ha desplegado contra una comunidad mapuche en Temucuicui, específicamente la Comunidad Autónoma Temucuicui, ubicada en la zona de Malleco, en el sur de Chile. Estos lamentables operativos policiales han significado atroces actos de violencia estatal y atropellos a los derechos humanos contra dicha población mapuche. En nuestra calidad de académicos, escritores y artistas, particularmente atentos a la situación de los pueblos indígenas y sus culturas, le expresamos nuestra consternación ante la represión policial de la que están siendo objeto los miembros de la Comunidad Autónoma Temucuicui, situación que se ha agravado en las últimas semanas, con traumáticos costos para la citada comunidad.

(Submitted by: Luis E. Cárcamo-Huechante, carcamohuechante@austin.utexas.edu)

December 17, 2011

Mr. James Anaya
Special Rapporteur on the Situation of Human Rights and Fundamental Freedoms of Indigenous
Peoples
United Nations

Dear Honorable James Anaya,
In the past several weeks, a severe repressive action has been deployed by the Chilean police against members of the Mapuche community of Temucuicui in the Malleco zone of southern Chile. These dire police operations have involved egregious acts of state violence and human rights abuses against this Mapuche population. As scholars, writers and artists who are particularly attentive to the situation of indigenous peoples and their cultures, we write to express our concern with this urgent situation which continues to deteriorate day by day, generating traumatic costs for this Mapuche community.

NATIONAL COUNCIL FOR PUBLIC HISTORY (US) CFP

2013 NCPH Call for Proposals
“Knowing your Public(s)—The Significance of Audiences in Public History”
2013 Annual Meeting, National Council on Public History
Ottawa, Ontario, Canada, April 17-20, 2013

Dear NAISA Members:

The NAISA Council is looking for volunteers to serve as Chairs for sessions at the 2012 NAISA meeting at Mohegan Sun, Uncasville, CT, June 4-6, 2012, sponsored by The New England Host Consortium.  If you are willing to serve in this capacity, please reply to Willie Brown at willie.naisa@gmail.com. Please indicate what areas and specialties are most interesting to you as a potential chair. Also, please indicate if you are willing to make comments, as well.

Call For Papers

The SAI and Its Legacies
Chadwick Allen and Beth H. Piatote, Editors