2009 American Indian Heritage Month Proclamation by Governor Beverly Perdue
November 2009
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Lecture: The "Identified Full Bloods" in Mississippi: Race and Choctaw Identity, 1898-1918 by Professor Katherine Osburn
Mon., November 9, 2009 - 5:00pm
Location: Murphey Hall, Room 116
Sponsored by: UNC American Indian Center, the Department of History, and the Center for the Study of the American South
Time: 5:00pm - 6:30pm
During the allotment era—1887-1934—federal Indian policy intersected with the segregated society of the Jim Crow South to create a market for Indian Identity; the discourse of Indian blood was the currency of this realm. For the Mississippi Choctaws, heirs to the failed promises of allotments for Choctaws remaining in Mississippi granted by the 1830 Treaty of Dancing Rabbit Creek, a policy known as the “full-blood rule of evidence” legitimized their enrollment with the Choctaw Nation of Indian Territory following the Dawes Act. This presentation analyzes how the Mississippi Choctaws negotiated ideologies of “Indian blood” during their campaign for inclusion on the Choctaw Nation rolls.
Katherine M.B. Osburn is Professor of Native American and environmental history at Tennessee Technological University. Her first monograph, Southern Ute Women: Autonomy and Assimilation on the Reservation, 1887-1934 has just been published in a second edition. She is a political activist for various social justice and environmental causes and a grandmother.
Seeing the once prosperous and populous tribe reduced to a few thousand people struggling with poverty, Mississippians concluded that the Choctaws were in the process of fading from history. Educators who worked among the Choctaws in the late nineteenth century complicated this idea, simultaneously noting both the Choctaws’ continued Indian identity—seen in their use of their native language, closed communities, attachment to their ancestral homelands, and continued Choctaw worldview—and their “progress.” Choctaws (place unknown) photographed by the Bureau of American Ethnology, courtesy of the National Anthropological Archives in the Smithsonian Museum Support Center.
Traditional American Indian Harvest Festival
Tues., November 10, 2009 - 12:00pm
Location: Rotunda, UNC School of Law
Sponsored by: Native American Law Students Association - UNC Chapter
Time: 12:00pm - 1:00pm
Members of the Native American Law Students Association will host their 5th annual festival by sampling of foods native to the Americas including succatash, cornbread, and wild rice.
Flim Screening & Live Performance: Looking for Ms. Locklear
Tues., November 10, 2009 - 7:00pm
Location: Auditorium, F.P.G. Student Union
Sponsored by: UNC American Indian Center, The Office of the Executive Vice Chancellor and Provost (Performing Arts and Special Activities Fund), Carolina Indian Circle, Frirst Nations Graduate Circle, and the Diversity Education Team (DET),
Time: 7:00pm - 9:00pm
To WATCH THE TRAILER visit http://rhettandlik.com/films/
Join us for a special screening of this award-winning documentary chronicling the filmmakers’ search for their first-grade teacher (Lenora Locklear '80, UNC alumnae) . The Lumbee tribe is prominently featured in the movie, much of which takes place in Pembroke, Robeson County.
We’re not only showing the movie, but there will also be a live musical performance from Rhett and Link, a Q&A session, and an introduction to some of the stars from the film. It’s going to be an extremely special one-time event, and we really hope you can join us!
Using only word of mouth, two lifelong best friends, Rhett & Link, embark on a search for the long-lost teacher of the first grade class where they met. Their journey leads them deep into the heart of the Lumbee Tribe of North Carolina. Serendipitously, Rhett & Link arrive on the scene at the very climax of the tribe's century-long political struggle for identity. In a day of mobile devices that allow for a multitude of superficial connections with other 'users,' the unforgettable characters in Looking for Ms. Locklear serve as a reminder that people have more to say than an email or text message can communicate.
Special Note: We don't want to give away the end of the movie, but there will be a few, SPECIAL guests to speak.
Lecture: Land, Natural Resources, and Sovereignty: Lessons from the Cherokee Nation and the Palestinian West Bank by Professor Marty Matlock
Tues., November 17, 2009 - 6:00pm
Location: 0001 Blue Cross Blue Shield Auditorium, Micheal Hooker Research Center, Gillings School of Global Public Health
Sponsored by: UNC American Indian Center, the Department of American Studies, and the Department of Environmental Sciences & Engineering, the Institute for the Environment, and the Carolina Center for the Study of the Middle East and Muslim Civilizations, the Curriculum in Peace, War, and Defense, the History
Department, the Carolina Center for Jewish Studies, The Program in Latina/o Studies, and the Carolina Indian Circle.
Time: 6:00pm - 7:30pm - Reception to follow
Dr. Marty Matlock (Cherokee), Professor of Ecological Engineering in the Department of Biological and Agricultural Engineering at the University of Arkansas - Fayetteville. Professor Matlock is an author of, Swimming Upstream: Collaborative Approaches to Watershed Management (MIT Press, 2005), former president of the American Ecological Engineering Society and current environmental protection commissioner of the Cherokee Nation of Oklahoma. He is also a negotiator and facilitator of water disputes between the Palestinian, Israeli, and Jordanian governments on behalf of the U.S. Department of Agriculture.
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Inaugural Michael D. Green Lecture in American Indian Studies: Tribal Sovereignty and the Limits of Legal Pluralism in the U.S. by Professor N. Bruce Duthu
Wed., November 18, 2009 - 4:30pm
Location: Alumni Hall I, The Carolina Club - George W. Hill Alumni Center
Sponsored by: UNC American Indian Center, the Department of American Indian Studies - American Indian Studies Major, and the Native American Law Students Association
Time: 4:30pm - 6:00pm - Reception to begin at 4:30pm
TRIBAL SOVEREIGNTY AND THE LIMITS OF LEGAL PLURALISM IN THE US.
Since 1978, the scope of tribal sovereign power has been steadily eroded by the US Supreme Court with minimal interference or correction by the Congress. These developments have serious implications for tribal governments working to develop and/or enhance living conditions in contemporary Indian Country. They also serve to call into question this nation's commitment to legal pluralism which, when viewed in proper historical context and in light of the contemporary federal policy of tribal self-determination, recognizes tribal governments and their legal traditions as the primary governing authority in Indian Country. In this talk, Professor Duthu will offer a brief account of the Supreme Court's recent work in federal Indian law and ultimately, will suggest that Congress must (re)embrace its constitutional obligations in Indian affairs in order to correct the current trajectory of tribal sovereignty.
Professor Duthu, an enrolled member of the Houma Tribe of Louisiana, is the Samson Occom Professor of Native American Studies and Chair of Native American Studies Program at Dartmouth College
Professor N. Bruce Duthu is an internationally recognized scholar of Native American law and policy. He joined the regular faculty at Dartmouth in 2008 as professor of Native American Studies. Professor Duthu earned his BA degree in religion and Native American studies from Dartmouth College and his JD degree from Loyola University School of Law in New Orleans.
Prior to joining the Dartmouth faculty, Professor Duthu was on the law faculty at Vermont Law School. He served as the law school’s Vice Dean for Academic Affairs and as director of the VLS-Sun Yat-sen University (Guangzhou, China) Partnership in Environmental Law. He also served as visiting professor of law at Harvard Law School, the universities of Wollongong and Sydney in New South Wales, Australia, and the University of Trento in northern Italy.
He is the author of American Indians and the Law (2008) and was a contributing author of Felix S. Cohen's Handbook of Federal Indian Law (2005), the leading treatise in the field of federal Indian law. He also contributed chapters for two other books, Intercultural Dispute Resolution in Aboriginal Contexts: Canadian and International (2004) and First Person, First Peoples : Native American College Graduates Tell Their Life Stories (1997).
Professor Duthu has published articles in the Harvard Human Rights Journal, the European Review of Native American Studies, the Indigenous Law Bulletin (Sydney, Australia), the Arizona State Law Journal, Louisiana History, the American Indian Law Review, the Vermont Law Review and Vermont Journal of Environmental Law. His published commentary has appeared in the New York Times, the New York Post, and the Navajo Times. He has given talks on the rights of Native Americans and Indigenous peoples to audiences throughout the US and other parts of the world, including China, Russia, Australia, New Zealand, France, and Italy.
14th Annual American Indian Heritage Celebration
Sat., November 21, 2008 - 11am
Location: N.C. Museum of History - Raleigh, N.C.
Sponsored by: NC Museum of History, N.C. Commission of Indian Affairs
Time: 11:00am - 4:00pm
Come to the museum and help commemorate American Indian Heritage month and the museum’s 13th annual American Indian Heritage Celebration! See artists demonstrate their skills at pottery, basketry, beadwork, stone carving, and other crafts. Watch dancers perform traditional dances to the rhythms of northern- and southern-style drum groups. Make crafts, plays games, and listen to stories and legends presented by Indian storytellers. Learn about members of the eight state-recognized tribes: Coharie, Eastern Band of Cherokee Indians, Haliwa-Saponi, Lumbee, Meherrin, Occaneechi Band of Saponi, Sappony, and Waccamaw-Siouan.
This event will take place following the downtown Raleigh Christmas parade.
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