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ETHAN BAPTISTE
1977 - 2010

This issue of the Indigenous Policy Journal is dedicated to the memory of Ethan Baptiste. Professor Baptiste was a Traditional Okanagan man who taught at the the University of British Columbia at Okanagan, and at Okanagan University College. He was also a UBC-O PhD student and a member of their Aboriginal Strategic Plan Committee. His home community was the Osoyoos First Nation in British Columbia. Ethan was an inspiration to Okanagan youth, a respected leader in the Okanagan Nation, and the father of three.

Ethan was a 1995 graduate of the Athol Murray College of Notre Dame, a college preparatory boarding school for students in grades 9 to 12. The College is located in the village of Wilcox, Saskatchewan, Canada. The Notre Dame College tribute to Ethan can be found here:

http://www.notredame.sk.ca/all_item.php?id=1652

The Winter 2010-2011 issue of our journal contains his essay, “Dissecting Internal Community Barriers and Subsequent Devaluation of Indigenous Graduates: A Discussion on Stereotypes, Knowledge, Power and Social Space based on an Osoyoos Indian Band experience,” as well as his review of the book, We are All Treaty People, by Roger Epp.

 Table of Contents

INDIGENOUS POLICY PLANS FOR 2010-11 - WE INVITE YOUR HELP AND INPUT

We hope that you are having a fine fall. 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 reamin 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 Phil Bellfy. bellfy@msu.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

Indigenous women from the regions of North America, Latin America, the Arctic, Caribbean and the Pacific "Declaration for Health, Life & Defense of our Lands Rights and Future Generations"

http://blog.indigenouspolicy.org/ipjournal/post/2010/11/13/Declaration-for-Health-Life-and-Defense-of-our-Lands-Rights-and-Future-Generations.aspx

David Kimelberg, “Appropriating Native economies: When is enough, enough

http://blog.indigenouspolicy.org/ipjournal/post/2010/11/13/Appropriating-Native-Economies-When-is-enough-enough.aspx

Research Notes

Thaddieus W. Conner and William A. Taggart, “A Research Note on Indian Gaming In California

http://blog.indigenouspolicy.org/ipjournal/post/2010/11/13/A-Research-Note-on-Indian-Gaming-In-California-Shifting-Strategies-in-a-Bad-Economy.aspx

Mark Trahant, “The CHCs have arrived and represent the prospect of better funding for Indian health

http://blog.indigenouspolicy.org/ipjournal/post/2010/11/13/The-CHCs-have-Arrived-and-Represent-the-Prospect-of-Better-Funding-for-Indian-Health.aspx

Mark Trahant, “What will the Indian health system look like? Answers are up to us

http://blog.indigenouspolicy.org/ipjournal/post/2010/11/13/What-Will-the-Indian-Health-System-Look-Like-Answers-are-Up-to-Us.aspx

Raúl Zibechi, “Bolivia and Ecuador: The State against the Indigenous People

http://blog.indigenouspolicy.org/ipjournal/post/2010/11/13/Bolivia-and-Ecuador-The-State-Against-the-Indigenous-People.aspx

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 December 2010.

Holly A. McKenzie, Carrie Bourassa, Wendee Kubik, Kerrie Strathy, and Betty McKenna

Aboriginal Grandmothers caring for grandchildren: Located in a Policy Gap

Jan Lüdert

Habermas Revisited: Indigenous Lifeworld(s) Today

Martin J. Reinhardt and John W. Tippeconnic, III

The Treaty Basis of Michigan Indian Education

Ethan Baptiste

Dissecting Internal Community Barriers and Subsequent Devaluation of Indigenous Graduates: A Discussion on Stereotypes, Knowledge, Power and Social Space based on an Osoyoos Indian Band experience

Jon Reyhner and Navin Kumar Singh

Cultural genocide in Australia, Canada, New Zealand, and the United States: The destruction and transformation of Indigenous cultures.

Book Review

Ethan Baptiste reviews Roger Epp's We Are All Treaty People.

http://blog.indigenouspolicy.org/ipjournal/post/2010/12/07/Book-Review-We-Are-All-Treaty-People.aspx

IPJ-XXI(3).pdf (1.75 mb)