Indigenous Thinkers

Dear Friends of Endangered Languages:

I am pleased to inform you that Dr. Evangeline Parsons Yazzie and Dr. Louise Lockard have agreed to co-chair the 15th annual Stabilizing Indigenous Languages Symposium (SILS) at Northern Arizona University’s new High Country Conference Center in Flagstaff, Arizona, on May 2 & 3, 2008. An informational flyer, call for papers, and registration form can be downloaded from the Teaching Indigenous Languages web site at http://jan.ucc.nau.edu/~jar/SIL9brochure.html

Sunday, June 03, 2007
KATIE SCHNEIDER

History is more than just a set of facts and figures. It's made up of people, their motivations and their desires. For most of American history, the books have been written by European settlers and their descendants, pushing their way westward with inexorable force. Now that has changed.

Holland & Knight Charitable Foundation's
*Young Native Writers Essay Contest
accepting entries until June 1, 2007. The Essay Contest is exclusively
for Native American high school students, with the goal of promoting
education and creating new opportunities for youth.
Five (5) First-Place Winners will each receive an all-expense-paid trip to
Washington, D.C., (*tentatively* scheduled for August 2-6, 2007) to visit
the National Museum of the American Indian, their Congressional
representatives, and other government and historical sites. The winners will

Good Morning,

The following are the books list that the library should have for
the children, my recommendation:
Author Title
Lacapa, Michael The Flute Player
Lacapa, Michael Antelope Woman
Lacapa, Kathleen/Michael Less Than Half, More Than Whole
Hoyt-Goldsmith, Diane Apache Rodeo
Ortiz, Simon The Good Rainbow Road
Malotki, Ekkehart The Mouse Couple
Malotki, Ekkehart The Magic Hummingbird

Our website name has changed, evolved as our Graduate experiences at the University of Arizona challenged us in creating a forum. From those earlier struggles and collaborations, we started the Indigenous Thinkers Club supporting indigenous knowledge building in academia. Once this website was called the American Indian Researchers or AIR site, but the People we represent have been here for centuries before the arrival of the Europeans, and their system of colonization which used religion as a tool for dominion.

*The American Indian Genocide Museum*