TABLE OF CONTENTS

ISN and IPJ information

Call for papers: special issue on issues involving anthropological testimony in court

Upcoming Events

Ongoing Activities:

Environmental Activities

U.S. Activities

International Activities

Indian & Indigenous Developments:

Environmental Developments

U.S. Developments

International Developments

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:

Lloyd L. Lee
"Naat’áanii in an Era of Colonialism"

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"

Reviews:

John W. Friesen, A Review of A Concise History of Canada’s First Nations by Olive Patricia

Dickason with William Newbigging”

 Randall Amster, “A Review of Brian Tokar, Toward Climate Justice

Media Notes

Useful Websites

Co-Editors:

Phil Bellfy, American Indian Studies Program, Michigan State University, 262 Bessey Hall,  East Lansing MI 48824, (517)432-2193, bellfy@msu.edu.

Thaddieus (Tad) Conner, The University of Oklahoma, Department of Political Science, 455 W. Lyndsey St., Norman, OK 73019, (405)325-6470, conner03@ou.edu.

Adam Dunstan, Brigham Young University, adunstan@byu.net. 

Steve Sachs, 1916 San Pedro, NE, Albuquerque, NM 87110 (505)265-9388, ssachs@earthlink.net.

Paula Mohan, Political Science Department, 305 Salisbury Hall, University of Wisconsin, Whitewater, Whitewater, WI 53190 (262)472-5772 (o), (608)233-2812(h), paulamohan@gmail.com, mohanp@uww.edu.

Ignacio Ochoa, M.A., Director, Nahual Foundation / Fundación Nahual, A Think Tank by and for the Indigenous Peoples of the Americas, 2a Avenida Norte 6 B, Antigua Guatemala, Sacatepéquez. Guatemala. Of: (502)7832-0167, Cell: (502)5985-4954, ignacio@fundacion-nahual.org, ochoa.ignacio@gmail.com www.nahualfoundation.org, www.fundacion-nahual.org.

Michael Posluns, Daytime & Cell: (416)995-8613, mposluns@accglobal.net.

Annalise Romoser (410)230-2800 ext. 2845, aromoser@lwr.org.

William (Bill) Taggart, New Mexico State University, Department of Government, Box 30001, MSC 3BN Las Cruces, NM 88003, (575)646-4935, witaggar@nmsu.edu.

DEADLINE FOR SUBMISSIONS FOR THE NEXT ISSUE IS OCTOBER 8

CALL FOR PAPERS/COMMENTARY

SPECIAL ISSUE OF INDIGENOUS POLICY, SPRING 2012

ANTHROPOLOGY, ARCHEOLOGY AND LITIGATION—ALASKA STYLE

PART 1:  CULTURE CHANGE AND CONTINUITY

PART 2:  THE “LOCAL GROUP” CONCEPT, OR WHEN IS A TRIBE NOT A TRIBE?

Editors:  Rita A. Miraglia, and Steven R. Street

In two recent legal cases in the State of Alaska, the testimony of archeologists and anthropologists has been presented by defendants in court cases brought by Alaska Native groups.  In the mid-1990s, witnesses testifying for Exxon successfully “proved” that Alutiiq culture could not have been damaged by the spill, because by 1989 it had ceased to exist. One Exxon consultant remarked in his deposition that the residents of the Alutiiq communities were no different from any other typical middle class Americans, because he had observed them using Betty Crocker cake mix.  In a 2008 trial involving aboriginal hunting and fishing rights on the outer continental shelf (OCS), some anthropologists and archeologist presented testimony on behalf of the United States Federal Government that sought to deny the existence of a pan-Chugach Alutiiq identity prior to contact with Europeans.  The general idea is summed up in the statement, “Prince William Sound and the lower Kenai Peninsula are the ancestral home of local groups that later became known as the Chugach people.” There have been two symposia in Alaska on the topic. The first in 1995 on Culture Change and Continuity, the second in 2009 combining that topic with the question of When is a Tribe not a Tribe?; some of the papers from these sessions will be published in the special issue.  However, the organizers believe this topic is of interest beyond Alaska, and we would like to solicit contributions from outside our region, to bring in other perspectives. Generally, we are looking for papers and commentary on theoretical aspects of the various issues raised here, as they might apply anywhere, not just in Alaska.  We welcome submissions from all points of view. Submissions should be sent to Rita Miraglia at rita.miraglia@bia.gov.  Deadline for submissions is October 30, 2011.

INDIGENOUS POLICY PLANS FOR 2011-12 - WE INVITE YOUR HELP AND INPUT

        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.

GUIDE TO SUBMITTING WRITINGS TO IPJ

We most welcome submissions of articles, commentary, news, media notes and announcements in some way relating to American Indian or international Indigenous policy issues, broadly defined. Please send article submissions electronically attached to e-mail to Tad Conner, conner03@ou.edu, who will send them out for review. All non-article submissions (including Research Notes, which usually are non refereed articles) go via e-mail to  Steve Sachs: ssachs@earthlink.net, or on disk, at: 1916 San Pedro, NE, Albuquerque, NM, 87110. If you send writings in Word format, we know we can work with them. We can translate some, but not all other formats into word. If you have notes in your submission, please put them in manually, as end notes as part of the text. Do not use an automated foot/end note system that numbers the notes as you go and put them in a footer. (such automated notes are often lost, and if not, may appear elsewhere in the journal, and not in your article, as several writings are posted together in the same file. The one exception is the Proceedings of the AIS section at the WSSA meeting, in fall issues, where each article is kept in its own file, and it is O.K. to use an automated note system. If you use any tables in a submission, please send a separate file(s) for them, as it is impossible to work with them to put on the web when they are an integral part of a Word text. Some other format/style things are helpful to us, and appreciated, but not an absolute requirement. As we publish in 12 point Times font, with single spacing, and a space between paragraphs, it saves us work if we receive writings that way. Many thanks. We look forward to seeing what you send us.

ISN 2010-11 COORDINATING COUNCIL:

Phil Bellfy, bellfy@msu.edu. EDITOR EMERITUS

Stephanie Di Alto, sdialto@uci.edu, PROGRAM Co-COORDINATOR

Thaddieus (Tad) Conner, (405)325-6470, conner03@ou.edu, EDITOR

Anne F. Boxberger Flaherty, Duke University, afb4@duke.edu

Luke Jones, Jones.Luke@epamail.epa.gov, (202)285-3199

Sheryl Lightfoot, University of Minnesota, slightft@umn.edu (2009 PROGRAM COORDINATOR)

Paula Mohan, mohanp@mail.uww.edu, (262)472-1120, CO-EDITOR

Ignacio Ochoa, ignacio@fundacion-nahual.org, ochoa.ignacio@gmail.com, Of: (502)7832-0167, CO-EDITOR

Jeff Peterson, petersgd@uwec.edu

Michael Posluns, mposluns@accglobal.net. (416)995-8613, CO-EDITOR

Annalise Romoser, aromoser@lwr.org. CO-EDITOR

Stephen Sachs, ssachs@earthlink.net (317)924-5965, SENIOR EDITOR, EDITORIAL BOARD COORDINATOR

Signa Daum Shanks, sdaumsha@uwo.ca

William (Bill) Taggart, New Mexico State University, (575)646-4935, witaggar@nmsu.edu, CO-EDITOR

Dale Turner, dale.turner@dartmouth.edu, COORDINATOR, (603)646-0324

Elizabeth Wabindato, elizabeth.wabindato@nau.edu (928)523-6652

INDIGENOUS WEB PAGE ON RACE ETHNICITY & POLITICS SECTION LINK

Paula Mohan has constructed the American Indian and International Indigenous webpage on the Race and Ethnic Politics link to the APSA website at http://facstaff.uww.edu/mohanp/nasa.html. She is actively soliciting material for ISN's webpage in the areas of syllabi, directory of scholars, graduate and undergraduate programs, new publications, resources and related areas. Contact her at mohanp@mail.uww.edu.