Institute of Native American Studies

Current Events

The Institute of Native American Studies
and the College of Public Health
present a Public Lecture by

Dean Seneca
"Raising Awareness of American Indian
and Alaska Native Health Issues"

12:20pm, October 7, 2009
175 Coverdell

Dean Seneca, a member of the Seneca Nation, is a Native public health specialist with the Centers for Disease Control in Atlanta. This lecture will explore problems with persistent and continuing disparities in health outcomes between different racial and ethnic groups. American Indian/Alaska Native (AI/AN) people suffer the highest health disparities, at a much higher rate than any other racial/ethnic group in the country.Seneca points to the need for more health professionals who have an understanding of the cultural norms to promote health within the native community, for revisiting traditional contributions to medicine, and for encouraging Native people to be health practitioners. His talk will outline crucial public health issues and how students play an integral role in developing and implementing public health interventions in their community.

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The Institute of Native American Studies
presents a public lecture by

Dr. Richard Allen

"Revitalizing the Cherokee Nation"

4pm, November 12, 2009
North P.J. Auditorium, Room 106
(in the Instructional Plaza between Journalism and Psychology)

Dr. Allen is a policy specialist with the Cherokee Nation of Oklahoma and a former United States Marine. His talk will look at issues affecting the revitalization of the Cherokee Nation, including state-recognized tribes and the splitting of the Cherokee into three federally-recognized tribes (the Cherokee Nation, the Eastern Band of Cherokee, and the United Keetoowah Band).

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Vox Reading
Orlando White and Sonya Huber

8:00 pm, Tuesday, January 26
CINE

Orlando White is from Tlikan, Arizona. He is Din (Navajo) of the Naaneeshtzhi Tbaah (Zuni Waters Edge Clan) and born for the Naakai Dine (Mexican Clan). He holds a BFA from the Institute of American Indian Arts and an MFA from Brown University. His poems have appeared in Bombay Gin, The Kenyon Review, Salt Hill Journal, Sentence: A Journal of Prose Poetics, Talking Stick Native Arts Quarterly and elsewhere. He teaches at Din College and lives in Tsaile, Arizona. Bone Light (Red Hen Press) is his first book.

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INAS Conference

Southeastern Indians Through Time:
Land, Geography and Environment

The Institute of Native American Studies at UGA will host a conference on the Native peoples of what is today the Southeastern United States in Athens, GA, February 19-20, 2010. Cheyenne-Arapaho filmmaker Chris Eyre will be a featured guest. He will be showing and discussing his documentary The Trail of Tears, part of the series We Shall Remain on American Experience.

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Sixth Annual Southeast Indian Studies Conference

April 8-9, 2010
University Center Annex
The University of North Carolina at Pembroke

Keynote Speaker: Karenne Wood (Monacan)

The purpose of the Southeast Indian Studies Conference is to provide a forum for discussion of the culture, history, art, health and contemporary issues of Native Americans in the Southeast. The conference serves as a critical venue for scholars, students and all persons interested in American Indian Studies in the region.

Conference Website: http://www.uncp.edu/ais/news/sisc/index.htm

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