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)
Congrats to S. Alan Ray for his presidential appointment to the National Advisory Council on Indian Ed. Full press release here:
S Alan Ray and Council on Indian Education.
How many presidential appointments of Cherokees to key positions does this make in the Obama administration? Kudos.
The Annual Tribal Law Conference at the KU School of Law will be held this year in conjunction with the Four Tribes in Kansas’ Native Nations Law Symposium. Day one (Feb 11th) at KU Law. Day two (Feb. 12th) at Prairie Band Casino and Resort. Agenda and on-line registration here. Among the topics are tribal economic development, gaming, tribal court jurisdiction, probate reform and ethics in tribal government. Cherokee Nation tribal citizens Stacy Leeds, Mark Dodd, and Melody McCoy are among the speakers.
We will hold the 2nd Annual Cherokee Scholars meeting on May 19, 2010 at 7:00 p.m. in Tucson, Arizona. We chose this time at our last meeting because it coincides with the American Indian and Indigenous Studies Association Meeting which will be held at University of Arizona on May 20-22. The NAISA conference website is here. For junior scholars that have no university travel funds, we will work to put a pot of money together to help defray costs.
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.
The Annual Sequoyah Commission Conference will be held at NSU in Tahlequah later this week: September 3-4, 2009. The full agenda is here and there is no registration fee. Congrats to Dr. Richard Allen for putting this together and good luck to the presenters. For more info contact Dr. Allen at the Cherokee Nation.