The Library Channel is proud to present the third installment of the Simon Ortiz and Labriola Center Lecture on Indigenous Land, Culture, and Community, sponsored by ASU American Indian Studies Program, ASU Department of English, ASU American Indian Policy Institute, ASU Labriola Center, and the Heard Museum.

Recorded March 23, 2009 at the Heard Museum in Phoenix, University of Victoria Professor of Indigenous Governance Gerald Taiaiake Alfred talks about the “Resurgence of Traditional Ways of Being: Indigenous Paths of Action and Freedom”

Taiaiake Alfred is known for his leadership and groundbreaking research in the fields of Indigenous governance, philosophy and history, and also for his incisive social and political criticism. He has been awarded a Canada Research Chair, a National Aboriginal Achievement Award in the field of education, and the Native American Journalists Association award for best column writing.

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Episode 96
Running Time: 1:15:04

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The third installment of the ASU Indigenous speaker series, the Simon Ortiz and Labriola Center Lecture on Indigenous Land, Culture, and Community will take place Monday March 23rd, 2009.

Professor of Indigenous Governance at the University of Victoria, Gerald Taiaiake Alfred, will deliver a lecture entitled “Resurgence of Traditional Ways of Being: Indigenous Paths of Action and Freedom” at the Heard Museum Steele Auditorium at 7PM with a reception and book signing to follow at 8PM.

The Labriola National American Indian Data Center will host a reception on the ASU Tempe Campus from 3:00-4:00PM in the Labriola Center, Hayden Library room 209 .

All events are free and open to the public.

About Gerald Taiaiake Alfred

Professor of Indigenous Governance at the University of Victoria (Canada), Gerald Taiaiake Alfred is known for his leadership and groundbreaking research in the fields of Indigenous governance, philosophy and history, and also for his incisive social and political criticism. He has been awarded a Canada Research Chair, a National Aboriginal Achievement Award in the field of education, and the Native American Journalists Association award for best column writing.

Educated at Concordia and Cornell, Taiaiake lectures at universities and colleges in Canada, the United States, England and Australia, and serves as an advisor on land and governance issues for his own and many other Indigenous governments and organizations. His writing includes numerous scholarly articles and contributed essays in newspapers and journals, as well as three books: the influential and best-selling Peace, Power, Righteousness (2008), now in its second edition; Wasáse (2005), a runner-up for the McNally Robinson Aboriginal Book of the Year in 2005; and Heeding the Voices of Our Ancestors (1995).

About the Simon Ortiz and Labriola Center Lecture Series

The Simon Ortiz and Labriola Center Lecture on Indigenous Land, Culture, and Community at Arizona State University brings notable scholars and speakers to Arizona for public lectures twice a year. These speakers address topics and issues across disciplines in the arts, humanities, sciences, and politics. Underscoring Indigenous American experiences and perspectives, this series seeks to create and celebrate knowledge that evolves from an Indigenous worldview that is inclusive and that is applicable to all walks of life.

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Episode 91
Running time:4:42

Helping to close out this eventful year for ASU Libraries, The Library Channel presents a glimpse into the ASU Labriola National American Indian Data Center highlighting the center’s collections, services and partnerships.

This video highlights the Labriola Center’s outstanding services and collections and includes information for how to become a Friend of the Labriola Center. You’ll hear from notable faculty, members of the ASU community, and librarians about how the center is expanding its community involvement and partnerships through such activities as the Simon Ortiz and Labriola Center Lecture on Indigenous Land, Culture and Community and important new programs such as collecting contemporary film and video critical to meeting ASU’s instructional needs and the Labriola Center’s commitment to the American Indian community.

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Episode 88
Running Time: 17:30

The Library Channel is proud to present the second installment of the Simon Ortiz and Labriola Center Lecture on Indigenous Land, Culture, and Community, sponsored by ASU American Indian Studies Program, ASU Department of English, ASU American Indian Policy Institute, ASU Labriola Center, and the Heard Museum.

Recorded on October 2, 2008 at the Heard Museum in Phoenix, Wilma Mankiller, former principal chief of the Cherokee Nation and internationally known Native rights activist talks about “Challenges Facing 21st Century Indigenous People.”

Mankiller talks of the diversity and uniqueness of the over 300 million Indigenous Peoples of the world. She also talks of indigenous duty and sense of responsibility to conserve and protect the natural world and how cultures with no memories of their origins have little understanding of their place in the world.

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Wilma Mankiller’s work as principal chief, consultant and speaker on Native issues has been acknowledged by numerous awards, including the Presidential Medal of Freedom, one of the two highest civilian awards in the United States. She has also been recognized as American Indian Woman of the Year, received the Indian Health Service Award and entered into the National Women’s Hall of Fame.

She co-edited A Reader’s Companion to the History of Women in the U.S., published by Houghton-Mifflin, co-authored, Mankiller: A Chief and Her People, published by St. Martin’s Press, and her newest book, Every Day is a Good Day was published by Fulcrum Press in the fall of 2004.

A video of the full event including opening remarks by Frank Goodyear and Wayne Mitchell will be coming soon on the Library Channel and ASUtv.

Episode 84

Running Time: 46:00

Speaker:
Wilma Mankiller

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The Library Channel is proud to present a lecture from the first installment of a new ASU Indigenous speaker series, the Simon Ortiz and Labriola Center Lecture on Indigenous Land, Culture, and Community, featuring Dr. Ned Blackhawk talking about his new book Violence over the Land: Indians and Empires in the Early American West published by Harvard University Press.

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Winner of the 2007 Frederick Jackson Turner Award and the 2006 William P. Clements Prize for the Best Non-Fiction Book on Southwestern America, Violence Over the Land “begins with the premise that too many histories written about the United States downplay the violence perpetrated by its citizens on native peoples.” (Harvard University Press) Dr. Blackhawk teaches in the History and American Indian Studies Departments at the University of Wisconsin, Madison. His areas of specialization and teaching interest include North American Indian history, culture, and identity from U.S. colonial to the 21st century; race and multiculturalism; comparative colonialisms; borderlands studies; and race and violence. The series is sponsored by the ASU American Indian Studies Program, ASU Department of English, ASU American Indian Policy Institute, ASU Labriola Center, and the Heard Museum. Recorded on January 28, 2008 at the Heard Museum in Phoenix, Arizona. A video of the presentation, including Dr. Simon Ortiz’s introduction, is available from The Library Channel at ASU on iTunes U, Google Video and the Internet Archive. Speaker: Dr. Ned Blackhawk Episode 68 Running Time: 55:31

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Fred interviews Joyce Martin, Acting Curator of the Labriola National American Indian Data Center about a special, new handmade book, Cherokee Phoenix, Advent of a Newspaper: the Print Shop of the Cherokee Nation 1828-1834 by Frank Brannon. The book focuses on the technical aspects and history of the newspaper and Cherokee printing. They will also discuss printed examples of the Cherokee syllabary and other Cherokee materials including language videos, coloring books, bibles, and popular comic books written in Cherokee and English.

We will also learn about other native language materials, when Native American languages began to be written, a project to preserve and provide access to endangered language materials, and a traveling exhibit in the works for spring 2007.

The entire run of the Cherokee Phoenix is available on microfilm in the Labriola Center.

You can read more about this new addition in the Labriola Fall 2006 Newsletter [PDF] and visit the Labriola National American Indian Data Center on the web for more information.

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Episode 31

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Curator Karrie Porter Brace talks with Fred about a new exhibit at ASU libraries that asks the question, “What is Sacred?”

The exhibition runs through December 5, 2006 in the Luhrs Gallery and Labriola National American Indian Data Center at Hayden Library, Tempe campus. A Sense of the Sacred includes resources pertaining to sacred texts, historic Southwestern places of worship, cross cultural attitudes and beliefs. The materials on display are from the Hayden Library including images, artifacts, rare books and manuscripts from the Archives and Special Collections. Native American themes are specifically addressed through a related exhibit in the Labriola Center.

For more information please visit the A Sense of the Sacred news page.

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