California professor discusses globalization
R. Ashley Smith Emerald
Dana Frank fields questions after her Wayne Morse lecture Tuesday night at the Hilton.
■Over 100 people attended
Tuesday night's lecture
“Working People and the
Challenge of Globalization”
By Brooke Ross
Oregon Daily Emerald
In sharing her views on globaliza
tion problems that affect the American
working class, Dana Frank, University
of California Santa Cruz professor, re
lated the issue to the movie "The
Blob.”
She said powerful corporations
moving overseas is but one problem
that’s threatening the country, just
like a huge jelly mass that can only be
stopped with the right formula.
"Our job is to figure out what that
formula is going to be,” she said.
Frank’s Tuesday night lecture,
“Working People and the Challenge
of Globalization,” drew more than
100 audience members to the Eugene
Hilton Conference Center. Venezue
lan singer and University alumnus
Irene Farrera set the tone for the
evening by playing several songs in
spired by the struggles of farmers and
human rights activists.
The lecture was one of several
events planned during spring term by
the Wayne Morse Center for Law and
Politics.
Although Frank said she does not
have all the answers for improving
working conditions, she stressed the
idea that individuals should not be in
timidated by the complexity of global
ization.
“There's a notion that only experts
can understand the global economy,”
she said, “but it’s not going to be two
experts in lab coats saving the world."
Frank said one prevalent problem
for American workers is that corpo
rations are changing their locations
frequently, so it’s harder to maintain
steady employment.
“They’re not being loyal to people of
any particularplace,” she said.
Margaret Hallock, labor education
professor and Morse Chair director,
said Frank has fresh views on labor
issues and passionately believes in
them.
"Dana is more than an academic
scholar, she’s also a dedicated ac
tivist,” she said.
Chad Sullivan, senior jazz studies
and history major, said he can relate to
the misconception that only experts
understand globalization issues be
cause he has faced such opinions first
hand as a member of the Human Rights
Alliance.
“People always say you don’t know
what you’re tailing about.”
Reservations surge with new money, populations
By Carson Walker
The Associated Press
KYLE, S.D. — The yearning to be
on family land was so strong for
Leatrice Wilson that she left thriv
ing metropolitan Denver to live in
the nation’s poorest county on the
Pine Ridge Indian Reservation.
Wilson, a 41-year-old Oglala Sioux
trained as a medical assistant, land
ed a job last year helping people with
funeral expenses, heating bills and
medical costs. She’s happy — and
proud—-to be back.
“There’s a whole new generation
of people who are on the reservation
that have lived out there and have an
* education, and they’re determined to
be a part of what’s going on to help the
tribe,” she said.
According to 2000 census figures,
American Indian reservations across
the country are burgeoning — even
in the West, where vast rural stretches
are losing people.
Experts and tribal officials say
many areas are getting a boost from
Indians returning to jobs and wealth
provided by ubiquitous tribal casi
nos, and others seeking to rekindle
their heritage. Still others return to
family and familiar surroundings af
ter struggling financially and cultur
ally off the reservation.
Overall, the number of people
who identified themselves solely as
Indian and Alaska Native grew by
26 percent during the 1990s to
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about 2.5 million last year. Add
multiracial categories and the num
ber of people claiming some Indian
ancestry is even larger.
The population surge was seen
from coast to coast:
— In Arizona, the Indian popula
tion jumped 25.7 percent during the
last decade. At the Fort McDowell and
Tohono O’odham reservations, offi
cials say casinos lined back tribal
members and helped pay for improve
ments such as fire departments, health
clinics and education. The Navajo, the
largest tribe in the United States, saw
the number of Indians on its sprawl
ing reservation reach 173,631 last year
—a 21 percent jump.
—California passed Oklahoma to
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become home to more Indian and
Alaska Natives than any other
state — more than 333,000, up
from 242,000 in 1990, according to
a Tulsa World analysis. Some
300,000 additional Californians
included Indian or Alaska Native
in a multiracial response.
—In Connecticut, a 50 percent in
crease in the Indian population dur
ing the 1990s has been linked to tribal
casinos, which distribute wealth to
members and give hiring preferences
to Indians.
Census officials say they did abet
ter job counting everyone last year
than in 1990. Even so, they estimate
they missed 4.7 percent of Indians
and Alaska Natives on reservations,
more than three times the national
average. Some tribes say the under
count is far higher.
JoAnn Chase, executive director oi
the National Congress of American
Indians in Washington, said she
doubted that many people were de
claring Indian ancestry without good
reason.
More likely, she said, multiracial
Indians are more likely the adult chil
dren of parents of two races who are
reconnecting with their Indian cul
ture and traditions.
“It is very welcome,” she said. “1
think that constitutes the largest pari
of the population, people who legiti
mately have a nexus to their tribal affil
iation.”
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