Welcome to Indigenous Policy Journal of the Indigenous Policy Network (IPN) Formerly American Indian Policy

   
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Vol. XVIV, No. 1___ SPRING, 2008

     Indigenous Policy (IPJ) publishes articles, commentary, reviews, news, and announcements concerning Native American and international indigenous affairs, issues, events, nations, groups and media. We invite commentary and dialogue in and between issues.

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TABLE OF CONTENTS

Announcements

ISN and IPJ information
Upcoming Events

Ongoing Activities
(U.S. Activities, International Activities). Indian & Indigenous Developments (U.S. Developments, International Developments).

Dialoguing:

Victoria Tauli-Corpuzm, “Statement on the Announcement of the World Bank Forest Carbon Partnership Facility”
RED Declaration (Reduced Emissions from Deforestation) FYI, REDD means (Reduced Emissions from Deforestation and Degradation) “Protecting the World's Forests Needs More Than Just Money”
Stephen M. Sachs, “Developing a Legitimate Carbon Trading Program To Appropriately Abate Global Warming”
Jack D. Forbes, “Jamestown Celebration: Part of Racial Myth-Making”
Patricia Vickers, “In the Absence of Love”

Articles:

Stephen M. Sachs, “Meeting Climate Change and Related Environmental Degradation Appropriately: Learnings from Indigenous Thinking”
Al Henderson, Patricia Rife and Perry H. Charley, “Leetsoii means “Yellow dirt” in the Navajo Language: Troubling Uranium Mining on Navajo Lands”
Margaret Mortensen Vaughan, “Journalistic Rhetoric and Orientalism: Attempts at Influencing Federal Indian Policy and Rule-Making on the Taking of Eagles”
Ethan Baptiste
, “Traditional Governance: A Case Study of the Osoyoos Indian Band and Application of Traditional Okanagan Leadership Principles”
Michael (Mickey) Posluns, “What is the meaning of the Apology of the Government of Canada for the Indian Residential Schools?”
Catherine Joslyn, “Andean Success Stories and Representations of Nature in Andean Textiles”
Jenny Bryant-Tokalau, “The qoliqoli in town: traditional fishing grounds and squatting in urban Fiji”

Review:
Ethan Baptiste
, “Extended Book Review: Helin, Calvin. Dances with Dependency: Indigenous Success through Self-Reliance”

Media Notes:

Useful Web Sites

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Co-Editors:

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), mohanp@mail.uww.edu.

Phil Bellfy, American Indian Studies Program, Michigan State University, 262 Bessey Hall,  East Lansing MI 48824, bellfy@msu.edu.

Ignacio Ochoa, Nahual Foundation, P.O. box 800, La Jolla, CA 92038 (858)643-9880, ignacio.ochoa@nahualfoundation.org, www.nahualfoundation.org

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

Annalise Romoser, anna@usofficeoncolombia.org.

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DEADLINE FOR SUBMISSIONS FOR THE NEXT ISSUE IS September 8

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INDIGENOUS POLICY PLANS FOR 2008-09 - WE INVITE YOUR HELP AND INPUT

        We hope that you are having a fine fall. This 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 (Spring and Fall), and beginning summer 2006, a summer issue serving as the Proceedings of the Western Social Science Association Meeting American Indian Studies Section, with Steve Sachs, Paula Mohan, Phil Bellfy, Ignacio Ochoa, Michael Posluns, and Annalise Romoser as Coeditors. 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.

     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 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.

      Our process is for submissions to go to Steve Sachs, who drafts each regular issue. Unsigned items are by Steve. Paula Mohan, Phil Bellfy, Ignacio Ochoa and Michael Posluns then make editing suggestions to Steve. Phil 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 all submissions electronically attached to 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 summer 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 2007-08 COORDINATING COUNCIL:

Phil Bellfy, bellfy@msu.edu.
COEDITOR

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

Susan Grogan,
segrogan@smcm.edu, (240)895-4205
Luke Jones
, jones.luke@epa.gov, (202)285-3199
Paula Mohan
, mohanp@mail.uww.edu, (262)472-1120, CO-EDITOR
Ignacio Ochoa
, 92038, ignacio.ochoa@nahualfoundation.org, (858)643-9880, CO-EDITOR
Jeff Peterson
, petersgd@uwec.edu
Michael Posluns
, mposluns@accglobal.net . (416)995-8613, CO-EDITOR
Annalise Romoser
, anna@usofficeoncolombia.org.
CO-EDITOR

Stephen Sachs
, ssachs@earthlink.net (317)924-5965, COORDINATING EDITOR
Signa Daum Shanks
, sdaumsha@uwo.ca
Dale Turner
, dale.turner@dartmouth.edu, (603)646-0324 COORDINATOR,
Elizabeth Wabindato
, elizabeth.wabindato@nau.edu (928)523-6652
Darlene Williams
, WilliamD@EastWestCenter.org, williamsd018@hawaii.rr.com,
PROGRAM Co-COORDINATOR

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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.

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ANNOUNCEMENTS

NORTHERN ARIZONA UNIVERSITY
Assistant Professor, Native American Politics

The Department of Politics and International Affairs at Northern Arizona University invites applications for a full-time, tenure-track Assistant Professor. The position begins in August 2009.

Minimum requirements include being ABD in Political Science or a related discipline with an expected dissertation completion date before August 15, 2010, and academic preparation, teaching, and research interests in Native American government and politics Candidates must be able to offer courses at both the undergraduate and graduate levels in tribal government and policy.

Candidates with a PhD completed by August 18, 2009 will be given preference. The Department’s particular strengths and foci are in global development, diversity politics, and environmental politics; preference will be given to candidates who can contribute to one or more of these areas. Preference will also be given to candidates who demonstrate evidence of teaching effectiveness or ability, scholarship and potential for publication, and a commitment to working effectively within a diverse university community. In addition, we encourage applications from candidates who are willing to incorporate web-based delivery strategies in their teaching.

To apply, please send a letter of interest, curriculum vitae, transcripts, three recent and original letters of reference, evidence and a sample of scholarship and publications, and evidence of teaching effectiveness (e.g., teaching evaluations and syllabi). The review of applications will begin on September 15, 2008 and will continue until the position is filled. Please send applications to Chair, Native American Politics Search Committee, Northern Arizona University, Department of Politics and International Affairs, P.O. Box 15036, Flagstaff, Arizona 86011-5036.

The Department offers the BA, BS, MA, MPA, and PhD degrees. Northern Arizona University is a 20,000-student institution with its main campus in Flagstaff, a four-season community of about 60,000 at the base of the majestic San Francisco Peaks. The University ranks fifth in the nation for graduating Native Americans with bachelor’s degrees; Native American students comprise about 6% of the student body. The university is committed to a diverse and civil working and learning environment. Northern Arizona University requires satisfactory results for the following: a criminal background investigation, an employment history verification and a degree verification (in some cases) prior to employment. You may also be required to complete a fingerprint background check.

Northern Arizona University is a committed Equal Opportunity/Affirmative Action Institution. Minorities, women, persons with disabilities, and veterans are encouraged to apply.

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