Vietnam
Australia
Aotearoa
Japan
Peru
Amazon
Hawai'i
Mexico
Guatemala
Sri Lanka
Pakistan
Collaboritive Research and Projects Currently Underway Through the Center for Indigenous Cultural Survival:
(Under Constuction: Come Back Soon to see Links to Many of the Project Websites)
For the past 20 years Dr. Proudfoot
has been traveleing to Vietnam to work collaboritivel with Vietnam National
University (VNU), the Vietnam Womes Union (11 million members), and other
organizations to create educational and cultural exchanges with the University
of Oregon. More than 15 Vientamese students have earned degrees at the
University of Oregon in the past ten years, many of them Masters degrees.
At the same time, Dr. Proudfoot has led numerous field schools to Vietnam
giving both Indigenous and non-Indigenous students at the University of
Oregon the opportunity to work collaboratively with people internationally.
The Center for Indigenous Cultural Survival has been working with the Indigenous peoples of Vietnam throughout this time. Meeting and working collaboratively with Indigenous peoples of Vietnam, the Center has begun initiating exchanges between students and community members. The purpose of these exchanges is to share our cultures and our unique was of survivng within larger nation-states so that we may strengthen eachother to survive and prosper as the Indigenous peoples of our place. This project continues to this day. For more information, visit the Contact page of this website and contact Dr. Proutfoot or Mitchel Wilkinson with any inqueries. Top
The Center for Indigenous Cultural Survival and the Aboriginal Institute for Development (AID), Alice Springs, Australia, are working on creating an exchange process where Indigenous faculty and students can expand their experiences through learning, teaching, and living within eachothers communities. A small group of North American Indigenous people initially went to Alice Springs in Feburary of 1998, to establish a relationship to build upon. The Center met and collaborated with the students and staff at the AID and visited outlying comunities and settlements throught Central Australia.
The Center and AID are working on implementing a formal understanding between the University of Oregon and AID to create funding opportunites for the exchanges of facluty and staff. For more information, visit the Contact page of this website and contact Dr. Proutfoot or Mitchel Wilkinson with any inqueries. Top
A small delegation of North American Indigenous peoples working with the Center for Indigenous Cultural Survival, in early winter of 1998, traveled to Aoteroa to meet and collaborate with Maori people. Toby Curtis, prominent national Maori educator, working at the Auckland Institute of Technology (AIT), was our contact and guide for much of that time. We traveled throughout Maori country meeting and creating relationships with different institutions, organizations, communities, and individuals.
The Center is attempting to create a formal agreement between a number of educational instittions throughout Aotearoa at this time. The hope is that we can establish a consistent and permanent way for the Indigenous peoples of these two places to meet and communicate together to strengthen our understanding and commitment to the struggles of Indigenous peoples everywhere. Top
Here
are some of the other programs that are just beginging.
We will have more detailed information as things develop further:
Working with the Indigenous Ainu and Okinawa people of Japan. Top
Colabortion with a group of Indigenous people working to preserve cultural lifeways and the jungle that supports them. Focus is on the traditional medicine that has been developed throughout time, preserving both the forest and the knowedge of how, why, what is needed to continue using these traditional medcines. Top
Working on creating a relationship with some of the small groups who live and struggle to survive in theq uickly diminishing Amazon Rainforests. Top
Working with Native Hawai'ians on issues of soveriegnty, education, and cultural survival. Top
Working to create relationships with the indigneous peoples throughout Mexico. Primarily the focus has been on Chiapas and working with the Indigenous peoples who are involved in or caught between the struggle going on there. Top
Working with the Indigenous communities throughout Guatemala. Small groups of people from the Center have been creating relationships with the Indigenous communities. Top
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