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2005-07 Theme: Indigenous Peoples: National Policy and International Human Rights Guided by former Dean Rennard Strickland, the inquiry on indigenous peoples paid
W. Richard West, Jr., founding director of the National Museum of the American Indian, “Native America in the 21st Century: Out of the Mists and Beyond Myth.” (37K PDF)
« (2005-06) Wayne Morse Chair Professor Wilma Mankiller, former principal chief of the Cherokee Nation. Mankiller taught a class and spoke on “Context is Everything: History and Culture in Contemporary Tribal Life.”
(2006-07) Wayne Morse Chair Professor » W. Richard West, Jr., founding director of the National Museum of the American Indian.
Resident Scholars Rennard Strickland, former Dean of the UO School of Law and author of over forty books. The Wayne Morse Center honored Strickland with a symposium in his honor: “From the Warrior Viewpoint: the Next Generation of Indian Law and Policy,” April 14, 2006. View agenda and speakers. (192K PDF) Brian Klopotek, Assistant Professor of Anthropology and Ethnic Studies. “I guess your warrior look doesn’t work every time: Challenging Indian Masculinity in the Cinema.” (100K PDF)
Mary Wood, Professor of Law “Tribes as Trustees Again: The Emerging Tribal Role in the Global Conservation Movement.” Available as two papers in PDF format, co-authored by Wayne Morse Fellows Zach Welcker and Matt O’Brien: “Tribes as Trustees Again (Part I): The Emerging Tribal Role in the Conservation Trust Movement.” October 2007. (416K PDF) “Tribes as Trustees Again (Part II): Evaluating Four Models of Tribal Participation in the Conservation Trust Movement.” October 2007. (380K PDF)
Distinguished Speakers Peterson Zah, Assistant to the President, Arizona State University, former President, Navajo Nation. “The Navajo Sovereignty in Education Act of 2005,” October 20, 2005. Rebecca Tsosie, Professor of Law, Willard H. Pedrick Distinguished Research Scholar, Arizona State University. “Women in Tribal and Community Leadership.” November 10, 2005. Suzan Shown Harjo, President and Executive Director of The Morning Star Institute. “Mascots, Museums and Indian Identity.” September 14, 2006.
Wayne Morse Center Events Sovereignty and Native Education. October 20, 2005. This symposium featured the Honorable Peterson Zah, assistant to the president of Arizona State University and former president of the Navajo Nation, who spoke on “The Navajo Sovereignty in Education Act of 2005,” and Brenda Child, an associate professor of history at the University of Minnesota, discussing “Boarding Schools as Metaphor.” Context Is Everything: History and Culture in Contemporary Tribal Life. November 9, 2005. Read Wilma Mankiller's public address. (76K PDF) Women in Tribal and Community Leadership. November 10, 2005. A symposium honoring Wilma Marquee Massacres: Native Americans in 100 Years of Global Movie Graphics Indigenous Nation-Building March 13, 2006. Speakers at this seminar, organized by Resident Scholar Brian Klopotek, included Jennifer Nez Denetdale from New Mexico and Kehulani Kauanui from Hawaii. From the Warrior Viewpoint: The Next Generation of Indian Law and Policy April 14, 2006. Wayne Morse Center Resident Scholar Rennard Strickland and invited speakers discussed the future of Indian law during this symposium.
View the symposium's agenda (87K PDF) Native America in the 21st Century: Out of the Mists and Beyond Myth. October 3, 2006. Public address by W. Richard West, Jr., 2006-07 Wayne Morse Chair of Law and Politics. Civil Liberties, Security, and the Balance of Power. October 30, 2006. U.S. Senator Ron Wyden spoke about issues currently facing the American government. Fair Trade: Equity Within Reach. November 1-2, 2006. A symposium organized by the Wayne Morse Fellows examining fair trade and its impact on native peoples. Indigenous Language and Cultural Preservation. February 12, 2007. Workshop exploring the issues of indigenous language and cultural preservation. Ho'ohemokolonaio: Why Political Decolonization Is Not Enough for Kanaka Maoli in Hawai'i Tribes as Trustees Again: The Emerging Tribal Role in the Land Trust Movement Project Grants Second Annual Tribal Water Advocacy Conference. October 21-22, 2005. Organized by the Center for Tribal Water Advocacy with support from the Wayne Morse Center. Margaret Mead Traveling Film and Video Festival. October 27 and November 10 and 17, 2005. The UO Ethnic Studies Program and Department of Anthropology, with support from the Wayne Morse Center, showed six innovative films: Afghanistan Unveiled (Afghanistan, 2003), Madam Ti Zo (Mrs. Littlebones) (Haiti, 2004), How To Fix the World (U.S./Uzbekistan, 2004), Oscar (Argentina, 2004), A Panther in Africa (Tanzania, 2004), and A/K/A Mrs. George Gilbert (U.S., 2004).
Demystifying Native Americans. November 29, 2005. A panel featuring Wilma Mankiller, organized by Oregon's Future, a nonpartisan public affairs magazine, and Portland State University. Imagining Indians: Indigenous North Americans in Film. Intersections of Restoring the Abundant Trust: Tribal Litigation in Pacific Northwest Salmon Recovery February 23, 2006. A lecture by Mary Wood, a UO professor of law and Morse Resident Scholar, who has done extensive research on the Columbia treaty tribes' role in current litigation over operations of the Columbia/Snake River hydro system. Forced Journeys. February 25, 2006. This conference marked the 1942 signing of Executive Order 9066 and focused on Oregon Native American history including Rogue River Wars, Treaties, and the Oregon Trail of Tears, as well as Oregon Japanese American history including WWII Internment. Speakers included: George Katagiri, Tule Lake internee, Military Intelligence Service member, Oregon Dept. of Education educator and administrator, a founding member of the Oregon Nikkei Legacy Center; Robert Kentta, authority on Western Oregon tribal histories, Siletz Tribal Cultural Programs leader, member of Siletz Tribal Council, Confederated Tribes of Siletz Indians; and David Gene Lewis, doctoral candidate in UO Department of Anthropology, director of the Southwest Oregon Research Project (SWORP), Confederated Tribes of Grand Ronde. The Archaeology Channel International Film and Video Festival. March 7-11, 2006. Five days of juried films and videos on archaeological and indigenous topics. Race and U.S. Political Development. May 11-12, 2006. The College of Arts and Sciences and the UO Political Science Department co-sponsored a national conference to critically interrogate the role of racial politics in U.S. political development. Top established and emerging scholars gathered in Eugene to present their work and discuss their thinking around these topics. Keynote speakers included Rogers Smith (professor of political science at the University of Pennsylvania), Desmond King (professor of political science at Oxford University), Nikhil Singh (associate professor of history at the University of Washington), and Victoria Hattam (chair and associate professor of political science at the New School for Social Research). Women's Voices of Struggle: Stories from the Heart of Indigenous Communities Speaker series of women indigenous leaders organized by UO Center for Indigenous Cultural Survival. Working for Native Justice Speaker series at UO School of Law organized by the Public Interest/Public Service (PIPS) student organization. Northwest Tribal Water Rights Conference. October 26-27, 2006. Official Conference Web Site. The third annual conference was sponsored by the Center for Tribal Water Advocacy. The UO School of Law Environment and Natural Resources Center and the Appropriate Dispute Resolution Center organized a special program focusing on “Beyond Conflict: Tribal Water Rights, Settlement Strategies and Environmental Justice.” Human Rights in Latin America: Awas Tingni v. Nicaragua. November 2, 2006. Lottie Cunningham Wren discussed her work defending the rights of indigenous peoples in Nicaragua. This program included an exclusive showing of “Children of the Sun,” a film documenting the struggle of Awas Tingni and their victory at the Inter-American Court of Human Rights. This event is sponsored by the UO Department of Anthropology and E-LAW as part of the groups' Wayne Morse Center Project Grants.
The speaker series included lectures on indigenous rights in South America, Indianness in Latin America and the U.S., the termination experience of the Grand Ronde and Warm Springs tribes, migrations of indigenous peoples from Mexico and Guatemala to the U.S., indigenous gender roles and border crossings, and indigenous immigrant farmworkers in Oregon. The UO Center for Indigenous Cultural Survival The UO Center for Indigenous Cultural Survival hosted speakers from North American and the Pacific Rim to address issues of human rights, the impact of colonialism, roles of indigenous women contested sovereignty and the emerging relationships between indigenous and non-indigenous communities. Discovery Research Project on Oregon Native American Tribal Languages The UO Many Nations Longhouse and the Northwest Indian Language Institute are organizing and transcribing recordings of speakers of several native languages, including Klamath/Modoc, Northern Paiute, Umatilla Sahaptin, Coquille, Cayuse, Chinuk and Nez Perce. The project includes indexing, transcribing, translating and linguistically describing the oral history information. The project seeks to reunite the various tribes with information gathered on the recordings. |
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Mankiller, Cherokee Nation; Sue Shaffer, Cow Creek Band of Umpqua Indians; and Kathryn Harrison, Confederated Tribes of Grand Ronde. Rebecca Tsosie, professor of law, Willard H. Pedrick Distinguished Scholar and executive director of Arizona State University's Indian Legal Program, gave the keynote speech. Featured speaker was Beverley Jacobs, president of the Native Women's Association of Canada. 
Preserving Our Pasts, Telling Our Stories: Indians, Museums and the Management of History. September 14-15, 2006. A symposium presented by the Wayne Morse Center and the Museum of Natural and Cultural History exploring the development and future of Indian involvement in museum and cultural center management.
Law, Progress, and the American Indian. October 27, 2005. The Humanities Center, with support from the Wayne Morse Center, hosted a free public lecture by Raymond Cross, a professor of law at the University of Montana. 
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