Honoring Native Tradition and Community Through Academic Excellence
UNM Institute for American Indian
Research and
The Native American Studies Department
present
The Annual Viola F. Cordova Symposium
SAGE Council Retrospective (1996-2009)
Honoring Self Determination through
Action and Prayer
MARCH 10, 2010: 1 - 5 pm
UNM Student Union Bldg.
Lobo A & B
Viola Cordova Lecture Series on March 4, 2009
Sponsored by The Native American Studies Indigenous Research
Group (NASIRG)
Time: 2-5pm, reception following the event
Place: Student Union Bldg., (SUB), Santa Ana B
Call NAS at 277-3917 for further information
"What is a Community-Based paradigm for Native American Studies?"
The NAS faculty will present on how we envision implementing our mission
of Community Building and what is community-based work in academia.
Each faculty member will present their work and perspective on a
community-based paradigm as it pertains to their respective fields
including anthropology, educationhistory, journalism and science.
Viola Cordova was the first Native American woman to receive a Ph.D. in philosophy. Even as she became an expert on canonical works of traditional Western philosophy, she devoted herself to defining a Native American philosophy. Although she died of a brain aneurysm before she could complete her life’s work, some of her colleagues have organized her pioneering contributions into a provocative book entitled: How It Is The Native American Philosophy of V. F. Cordova.
Nizoni Days Pow Wow 04.30.06 - Kive Club presents "Honoring our Alumni" Traditional Pow Wow at Johnson Field
Activism Panel Discussion
02.21.06 - Part of UNM's 40th anniversary celebration of the founding
of the Black Panther Party. Panelists include: Dennis Banks, co-founder
of the American Indian Movement; David Hilliard, founding member
of the Black Panther Party; Mark Rudd, founding member of the Weather
Underground.
Randy Redroad
02.07.06 - Cherokee writer, director and filmmaker Randy Redroad will
screen his award-winning film “The Doe Boy” on Feb. 7 at 7 p.m. in
the University of New Mexico Anthropology Lecture Hall 163. Redroad
will also discuss his upcoming project, “Moccasin Flats.”
Indigenous Peoples of the Americas
10.16.05 - 10.18.05 - This Symposium will offer an opportunity for Indigenous
representatives from throughout the Americas to discuss the effects of globalization
on Indigenous communities and to consider a collective course of action into
the future. During the panel sessions the struggles of Indigenous groups coming
from North, Central, and South America will be presented.
Indigenous & Black Relations in North America
10.10.05 - This gathering is part of an emerging scholarship that
is changing the ways in which we have viewed race and cross-cultural
relationships between Native Americans, Whites, and African-Americans.
Much of the existing scholarship has focused on the southeastern U.S.
and Oklahoma even though a history of Indigenous-Black relations exists
in the Southwest, and these relations deserve to be explored.
News Coverage of Native Americans
10.09.05 - Journalists will share their experiences and insights regarding
news coverage of issues critical to Native Americans. Topics will
include Indian gaming, the U.S. Department of Interior's mismanagement
of the Individual Indian Money Accounts - Cobell v. Norton, Indian
health care and the Red Lake Indian Reservation shootings.
Po'pay Commemoration Symposium
10.03.05 - In celebration of the dedication of a sculpture of Po'pay
as gift from San Juan Pueblo to be installed in the Statuary Hall
of the Capital Building in Washington DC, Pueblo scholars will meet
to discuss the history and significance of Po'pay's leadership during
the 1680 Pueblo Revolt against Spanish Colonization.
