We hope that you are having a fine summer. Indigenous Policy journal is available on the web with e-mail notification of new issues at no charge. Indigenous Policy puts out two regular issues a year (Summer and Winter), and since summer 2006, what will now be a fall issue serving as the Proceedings of the Western Social Science Association Meeting American Indian Studies Section. We are seeking additional editors, columnists and commentators for regular issues, and editors or editorial groups for special issues, and short articles for each issue. As IPJ is now a refereed journal, articles are being posted on a different schedule from the rest of the journal. New articles are added to already posted issues, and will remain up when issues change, until replaced by new articles. Notices go out to our list serve when new issues are posted, and when new articles are posted. To be added to the list to receive e-mail notice of new postings of issues, and new postings of articles, send an e-mail to Seve Sachs: ssachs@earthlink.net.
Jeff Corntassel and colleagues put together a special winter 2002 issue with a focus on “federal recognition and Indian Sovereignty at the turn of the century.” We had a special issue on international Indigenous affairs summer 2004. We invite short articles, reports, announcements and reviews of meetings, media and media, programs and events, and short reports of news, commentary and exchange of views, as well as willingness to put together special issues.
Send us your thoughts and queries about issues and interests and replies can be printed in the next issue and/or made by e-mail. In addition, we will carry Indigenous Studies Network (ISN) news and business so that these pages can be a source of ISN communication and dialoguing in addition to circular letters and annual meetings at APSA. In addition to being the newsletter/journal of the Indigenous Studies Network, we collaborate with the Native American Studies Section of the Western Social Science Association (WSSA) and provide a dialoguing vehicle for all our readers. This is your publication. Please let us know if you would like to see more, additional, different, or less coverage of certain topics, or a different approach or format.
IPJ is a refereed journal. Submissions of articles should go to Tad Conner, conner03@ou.edu, who will send them out for review. Our process is for non-article submissions to go to Steve Sachs, who drafts each regular issue. Unsigned items are by Steve. Paula Mohan, Phil Bellfy, Ignacio Ochoa and Michael (Mickey) Posluns then make editing suggestions to Steve. Thomas Brasdefer puts this Journal on the web.
Dialoguing
Document on the Launching of the "FAO Policy on Indigenous and Tribal Peoples"
Mark Trahant, “Throw Away the Old Playbook: Tribes and Counties are better off working together"
Rob Capriccioso, “Cobell’s Final Toll“
Research Notes
Aliese M. McArthur, New Mexico State University, Thaddieus W. Conner, University of Oklahoma and William A. Taggart, New Mexico State University, “A Research Note on Indian Gaming in Arizona: Evidence of Recession and Recovery”
16th Conference of the Parties, United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change, Cancun, Mexico, 29 November to 10 December 2010, Opening Statement by the International Indigenous Peoples Forum on Climate Change, November 29th, 2010
Moki Kokoris, “That Was Then; This is Now…”
Articles
As IPJ is now a refereed journal, articles are being posted on a different schedule from the rest of the journal. We will send out an e-mail announcement when the next set of articles are posted, and can be downloaded as a pdf file. Current articles were posted in August 2011.
Lloyd L. Lee
What does it mean for Navajo Leadership in the 21st century?
Claire Palmiste
From the Indian Adoption Project to the Indian Child Welfare Act: the resistance of Native American communities
Josephine Etowa, Sister Veronica Matthews, Adele Vukic, Charlotte Jesty
Uncovering Aboriginal Nursing Knowledge through Community Based Participatory Research (CBPR)
Kate Cave, Paul General, Jodi Johnston, Bradley May, Deb McGregor, Ryan Plummer, Peigi Wilson
The Power of Participatory Dialogue: Why Talking About Climate Change Matters
Book Review
Randall Amster reviews Brian Tokar's Towards Cimated Justice.
John Friesen reviews Olive Patricia Dickenson & William Newbeginning's A Concise History of Canada's First Nations