VOLUME XV, NO. 1 -- Spring, 2004

UPCOMING EVENTS

ISN'S PROGRAM AT THE AMERICAN POLITICAL SCIENCE ASSOCIATION (APSA) MEETING, in Chicago, September 2-5, headquartered at the Chicago Hilton hotel, consists of 3 panels and a business meeting, as listed in the APSA on line program at http://www.apsanet.org/mtgs/program/index.cfm, as follows as of May 13. The program will be up dated on line until just before the meeting. Locations of sessions will be in the printed program available at onsite registration.

Panel 1: Un-Settling Discourses: Theorizing New Configurations of Indigenous Governance in a (Post)-Colonial World, Co-sponsored by Normative Political Theory, 3-47, Friday, Sep 3, 4:15 PM
Chair: Taiaiake Gerald Alfred, University of Victoria
Papers: Dale Turner, Dartmouth, "On the Meaning of Meaning or Should Indigenous Peoples Read Wittgenstein?"
Audra Simpson, Cornel, "Nationalism and Its Contents: Mohawk Citizenship-Formation in the Face of Empire"
Darren J. Ranco, Dartmouth, "Procedural Justice, Normative Science, and Rights: An Indigenous Critique of Liberal Modes of Citizenship"
Martin Papillon, University of Toronto,"Building Treaty Federalism From Below? Aboriginal-State Relations and the Challenges of Post-Colonial Governance"
Discussant: Leroy Little Bear, University of Lethbridge

Panel 2: Reflections on the 1988 Indian Gaming Regulatory Act: The Economic, Cultural and Political Impact of Indian Gaming, Co-sponsored by Political Economy, 6-?, Sunday, Sep 5, 10:15 AM
Chair-Discussant: W. Dale Mason, University of New Mexico, Gallup
Papers: Darlene M. Williams, University of Hawaii, Manoa, "Reflections on the 1988 Indian Gaming Regulatory Act and Its Political Impact"
Kate A. Spilde, Harvard, "Indian Gaming and Revenue Sharing: State Expectations versus Federal Law"
Jeff J. Corntassel, University of Victoria, "Emerging Contenders: IGRA and Indigenous Political Mobilization in Arizona, Rhode Island and Washington"
Renee A. Cramer, Cal State, Long Beach, "The Indian Gaming Regulatory Act: An Important Context for Understanding Federal Tribal Acknowledgement Law and Practices"
Kevin Gover, Arizona State University, "Thoughts About Indian Gaming: Theory and Practice"

Panel 3, Theme Panel: Crossing the Colonial Line: Common Struggles, Different Contexts for Indigenous Peoples in the United States and Canada, Co-sponsored by T-17, Saturday, Sep 4, 8:00 AM
Chair: Taiaiake Gerald Alfred, University of Victoria
Participant(s): Russell Diabo,, Kahnawake Mohawk Nation
Leroy Little Bear, University of Lethbridge
Phil Bellfy, Michigan State University
Winona LaDuke, White Earth Ojibwe Nation
Kevin Gover, Arizona State University

Paula Mohan is still negotiating with Winona LaDuke and APSA to arrange a private evening reception- either Thursday or Friday evening with Winona, with the revenue from the tickets going to fund her travel expenses. The tickets are expected to be about $10-$12 a piece. Check the on line program about this event.

Indigenous Studies Network Business Meeting and Networking Session, Friday, Sep 3, 12:30 PM
After completing ISN's business, attendees will share interests and concerns. Business Agenda: Select 2003-04 officers and volunteer for coordinating council for 2004-05; Consider possible constitution (tentative draft constitution available from Steve Sachs, ssachs@earthlink.net), Review journal, Indigenous Policy; New Business.

For more information on ISN's program, contact ISN's Program CO-Coordinators: Gerald "Taiaiake" Alfred and Jeff Corntassel, Indigenous Governance Programs, University of Victoria, P.O. Box 1700 STN, Victoria, BC, V8W 2Y2, Canada (250) 721-6440, Fax: 472-4724, iprc@uvic.ca, or ctassel@uvic.ca, www.uvic.ca/igov, and Paula Mohan, 305 Salisbury Hall, Political Science Department, University of Whitewater, Wisconsin, Whitewater, WI 53190 (262) 472-5772 (o), (608)233-2812 (h), mohanp@mail.uww.edu).
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OTHER INDIGENOUS PANELS, PAPERS AND POSTERS at APSA:

32-8 Race, Ethnicity and Politics panel, Indigenous Populations: Political Rights, Mobilization, and Leadership, Friday, Sep 3, 2:00 PM
Chair: Barbara J. Morris, University of Redlands
Papers: Richard C. Witmer, Grinnell College, "American Indian Political Mobilization: Turnout and Vote Choice"
Stephen M. Sachs, IUPUI, "Working in the Circle: American Indian Leadership and Collaboration through Applying Traditional Values in the Context of the Twenty-First Century"
Jeffrey A. Karp, Texas Tech and Susan A. Banducci, Universiteit Twente, "Increasing Political Rights for Indigenous Populations: Comparing Support among Majority Populations in Australia, Canada, and New Zealand"
Erich W. Steinman, University of Washington, "Exiting Racial Politics: The Rise of Tribal Governments and the De-Centering of Racial Frameworks in Tribal-Nontribal Politics"
Discussant: John G. Bretting, College of Charleston

11-4 Comparative Politics Panel: Cross-Regional Evidence on the Origins and Political Relevance of Ethnic Identity Thursday, Sep 2, 10:15 AM
Chair- Discussant: Jennifer L. Hochschild, hochschild@latte.harvard.edu, Harvard University
Papers: Kathleen A. Collins, Notre Dame, "Changing Islamic Identities: Islam and Mobilization"
Todd Eisenstadt, American University, "Instrumental Indians in Mexico’s Conflict Areas: A Survey Research Approach"
Peter M. Lewis, American University, "Identity and Conflict in Nigeria`s Niger Delta: New Evidence from Attitude Surveys"
Lily Tsai, Harvard, "Democratic Reforms, Lineage Competition, and Local Governmental Performance in Rural China"

3-45 Normative Political Theory Panel: Indigenous People's Rights, Women's Rights and the State, Co-sponsored by Women and Politics: 31-12, Saturday, Sep 4, 2:00 PM
Papers: Alice L. Hearst, Smith College, "Crossing Cultures: Families, Group Rights and Dilemmas of Identity"
Gina Cosentino, University of Toronto, "The Constitutional Partnership Between Indigenous Peoples and the State as if Indigenous Women Mattered: The Consultative and Participatory Dimension of Indigenous Rights"
Katherine Smits, Miami University, "Double Dispossession: State Constructions of Gender and the Displacement of Indigenous Women in Post-colonial Australia"

INDIGENOUS PAPER:
On: 2-6 New Cultures of Politics? Religion, Tribe and Ethnicity in Liberalizing LDCs, Thursday, Sep 2, 2:00 PM
Donna Lee Van Cott, University of Tennessee, Knoxville & Roberta L. Rice, University of New Mexico, "The Emergence and Performance of Indigenous Peoples' Parties in South America: A Sub-national Analysis"

INDIGENOUS POSTER:
Victoria Sutton, Texas Tech University, "A Native American Perspective in Presenting History and Law: The Unvanquished - An Indigenous People," Thursday, Sep 2, 4:15 PM

Possible additional American Indian and international indigenous panels, papers and posters can be searched for on APSA's on-line program, which will be updated until just before the meeting, at: http://www.apsanet.org/mtgs/program/index.cfm.
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WSSA 2004 AMERICAN INDIAN STUDIES SECTION PROGRAM

The 47th American Indian Studies Section of the Western Social Science Association expects to again have a full program of panels at the association's meeting at the Hyatt Regency Downtown in Albuquerque, NM, April 13-16, Paper/panel proposals for the American Indian Studies Section can either be submitted on line by going to: http://wssa.asu.edu/wssa_conference.htm, or by sending them to section coordinator Jeff Corntassel, WSSA@uvic.ca [(250)721-6440]. Deadline for proposals, including abstracts, is November 30. Information, which will eventually include the preliminary program, can be accessed on line at http://www.asu.edu/copp/wssa/index.html.
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The National Association of Native American Studies (NANAS) will hold its 2004 Annual Conference jointly with the National Associations of African American and Latino Studies and at the International Association of Asian Studies, in Atlanta, GA, November 11-14, 2004. To receive information, contact Dr. Lemuel Bery, Jr., Executive Director, NAAAS & Affiliates, P.O. Box 865, Morehead, KY 40351 (207)282-1925, Fax: 606/784-1037 E-mail: naaasgrp@webcom.com www.NAAAS.org.
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The Eleventh Annual Stabilizing Indigenous Languages Conference will be held at the University of California at Berkeley on June 11-15, 2004. More information will follow in early spring regarding registration and a call for papers. Also, Nurturing Native Languages with papers from the 8th, 9th, and 10th Stabilizing
Indigenous Languages conferences is now available on-line at: http://jan.ucc.nau.edu/~jar/NNL/.

The Indigenous Environmental Network (IEN) 13th annual Protecting Mother Earth Gathering is June17-20, at Elk Creek Resort (Camp), 12 miles west of Rapid City, South Dakota. Focus themes are: Water, Globalization and Free Trade, Energy,- oil, gas, nuclear, coal and coal bed methane, Climate Justice, Renewable Energy - Wind/Solar, Native Youth Movement Building - Leadership and Activism on Environmental Justice & Building Sustainable Communities, Traditional Knowledge & Sacred Areas, Mercury and Toxics & Incineration, National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA), Native Grassroots Organizing, Tribal Wind Development in Northern Plains, and Land Recovery Initiatives. For more information contact the IEN office: (877)436-2121,
ien@igc.org or ienyouth@igc.org, www.ienearth.org.

Native American Journalists Association (NAJA) 2004 convention at, "UNITY 2004 Conference: A Powerful Alliance; A Force for Change" is at Washington, DC, August 4-8. NAJA is one of four associations that make up UNITY: Journalists of Color, Inc. NAJA has long supported other minority organizations in their efforts toward increasing people of color in the newsrooms, in particular Native Americans. For details, go to the UNITY homepage at: http://www.unityjournalists.org/, or contact Native American Journalists Association, 555 N. Dakota St., Al Neuharth Media Center, Vermillion, SD 57069.

Maintaining Connections: Natives in Academia and Community Unification, Activism, and Responsibility is in Ithaca, NY, November 5-6, Hosted by the Cornell Council of American Indian Graduate and Professional Students. For information, contact: joshuabnelson@aya.yale.edu.
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