Cherokee author Steve Russell’s new book is out – as blogged by Matthew Fletcher. Steve humbly failed to shamelessly self-promote this, so I’ll do it for him. Congrats Steve and happy semi-retirement! The book can be purchased (at a very reasonable price) by Carolina Academic Press here.
The annual conference of the Sequoyah Commission will be held September 2-3, 2010 in Tahlequah. Congrats to Richard Allen for another job well done in putting together this event. Agenda can be downloaded here: State of Sequoyah Commission Conference Agenda 2010 (2)
America Meredith is teaching Native American Art History I and II this semester and has shared her syllabi. The Native American Art History I course covers pre-contact to late 19th century. The Native American Art History II course picks up with late 19th century thru 1960. Both links open in Word.
NSU Press Release and photo op here. Congratulations to Wilma and the whole NSU community.
Professor Sean Teuton has a new book “Red Land, Red Power” with Duke University Press. Professor Teuton currently holds a joint appointment in English and American Indian Studies at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. Congratulations Sean!
As I previously mentioned, we are starting a new feature aimed at promoting the publications of Cherokee scholars. The first entry is Professor Jeff Corntassel's new book entitled "Forced Federalism: Contemporary Challenges to Indigenous Nationhood" published by OU Press in 2008. Jeff has been kind enough to share a link to the first chapter of the book which can be downloaded in pdf here. The author also has a personal website.
The inaugural Cherokee Scholars meeting will take place February 14th from 9 am to 4 pm at the University of Kansas School of Law, Rice Room. The agenda will include:
This first meeting will be limited to enrolled tribal members/citizens of the three federally recognized Cherokee entities: Cherokee Nation, UKB and Eastern Band. During the meeting we will discuss how we wish to define ourselves for the future, discuss the goals of the group and plan future meetings. Please send ideas for presentations to stacy@stacyleeds.com and we will put together a final detailed agenda by December 1st. The works in progress presentations can be very rough – it’s out intention to provide a friendly inter-disciplinary audience for presenting new ideas. The afternoon session will involve projects that are further along.
As a community, we will do what we can to assist those who wish to attend but have limited travel funds. Get to Lawrence and we’ll see that everyone has a place to stay and food to eat.
If you come join us the day before, the Annual Tribal Law and Government Conference will be held all day Friday, February 13th, also at KU Law School.
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The Muskogee Phoenix has this article on Tonia Weavel’s Cherokee textile work. She is the education director for the Cherokee Heritage Center (Cherokee National Historical Society, Inc.). I admire her work, and I like the notion she shares with many Cherokee artists regarding the evolution of Cherokee art. The art should reflect who are as a people now. Why not the same progressive evolutionary movement in other aspects of the Cherokee humanities: legal thought, jurisprudence, philosophy?
