Morse Center hosts Native
American Symposium
The free event will emphasize education, sovereignty
and current legislation that pertains to Native Americans
BY BRITTNIMCCLENAHAN
NEWS REPORTER
Experts from around the state and
nation will gather at the Knight Law
School today for an eight-hour sym
posium to promote Native American
education and sovereignty, highlight
ing a troubled history and proposing
ideas for future generations.
The Wayne Morse Center for Law
and Politics is sponsoring “Sover
eignty and Native Education,” a free
symposium at the Many Nations
Longhouse and Knight Law Center
today from 1 p.m. to 9 p.m. The
symposium is part of the Morse
Center’s 2005-07 theme, “Indige
nous Peoples: National Policy and
International Human Rights.”
The current symposium will cover
Native American education, sover
eignty, the afflicted history of board
ing schools and current legislation
and initiatives pertaining to Native
American issues.
The Morse Center will host confer
ences, symposia and other events em
phasizing Native American issues, in
cluding sovereignty and Native
American law, education and
women’s leadership throughout the
next two years. The center has part
nered with the Center for Indigenous
Cultural Survival and the Many Na
tions Longhouse to continue its work
with the nine federally recognized
tribes in Oregon to educate the com
munity on these issues.
Peterson Zah, the Arizona State Uni
versity’s president on American Indian
Affairs and former president of the
Navajo Nation, will give the keynote
address at today’s symposium.
“Zah is an expert on education,”
Morse Center director Margaret Hal
lock said. “The overall theme of this
event is to focus on issues of sover
eignty and self determination. One of
the resources to achieve sovereignty
is education.”
Brenda Child, another keynote
speaker, will share her speech,
“Boarding Schools as Metaphor.”
Child wrote “Boarding School Sea
sons: American Indian Families,
1900-1940,” which was inspired by
her grandmother’s experiences at the
Flandreau Indian Boarding School in
South Dakota during the 1920s.
Child teaches courses on multi
culturalism and Native American
history at the University of Min
nesota and is a member of the Red
Lake Band of the Chippewa Indians
in northern Minnesota.
Hallock said that Wilma
Mankiller, this year’s Morse Chair
professor and former principal chief
of the Cherokee Nation, has attract
ed a lot of attention to the Universi
ty and is allowing the University to
connect with high-profile leaders in
the Native American community.
Contact the people, culture, faith reporter
at bmcclenahan@dailyemerald.com
MANY NATIONS LONGHOUSE SYMPOSIUM SCHEDULE
Many Nations Longiouse, 1 p.m.-5:30 p.m.
» 1 p.m. - Symposium Welcome: Margaret Hallock,
Director, Wayne Morse Center for Law and Politics
and Gordon Betties, interim Steward of Many Nations
Longhouse
* 1; 15 p.m. - Overview of issues relating to sover
eignty and education: Brian Klopotek, University Eth
nic Studies assistant professor and Morse resident
scholar
• 1:30 p.m. - Autonomous Indian Schools: Sover
eignty and Colonialism: Howe Arnett, counsel to the
Confederated Tribes of Warm Springs
Keynote address: “Boarding Schools as Metaphor,"
Brenda Child, University of Minnesota historian
Panel: Hon. David Harding tribal judge, Spokane
October 20,2005
Tribal Court and board member, Chemawa Indian
School; Anne Tester, principal, Nixyaawii Community
School of the Confederated Tribes of the Umatilla;
Debbie LaCroix, cultural curricuium adviser at
Chemawa Indian School
• 3:30 p.m.-Break
• 3:45 p.m. -• Sovereignty, Education, and Tradition
al Knowledge: Preserving Traditional Knowledgs and
the Role of Non-Native Schools: Alison Ball, director,
University’s Child and Family Center.
Panel: Hon. Elizabeth Furse, director, the Institute for
Tribal Governance at Portland Sate University; Char
lie Soap, activist in cultural and economic issues for
the Cherokee Nation; Janne Undemner, Northwest
Indian Language Institute
• 5:30 p.m. ~ Break for dinner
Knight Law Center, 7 p.m.-9 p.m.
• 7 p.m. - Keynote session; 175 Knight Law Center
Ceremonial welcome and blessing; Esther Stutzman,
Kalapuya Elder
Introduction: Rennard Strickland, Knight professor of
law and Morse Center resident scholar
Keynote address: "The Navajo Sovereignty In Educa
tion Act of 2005”: Peterson Zah
Response: Wilma Mankiller, Morse Chair professor
• 9 p.m.-Closing
SOURCE:
http://www.morsaTiair.LioregDn.edu/Sovereigntya
ndNativeEducation.html
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as his trial opened under heavy se
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his Baath Party.
Saddam and seven former mem
bers of his regime could face the
death penalty if convicted for the
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in the town of Dujail.
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Hurricane Wilma grows
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and thousands to evacuate as it
churned toward Mexico’s Cancun
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least 12 people and becoming the
most intense storm to ever form in
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The National Hurricane Center in
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