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2012 UA Program
Cultural Survival
Citizens for Global Solutions
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Contents Oct. 14,
2013
2013 UA IPAD Program
United Nations Declaration of Rights of Indigenous People
McCoy and Scarano, Colonial Crucible
LaFebre, The Extra-Continental, Imperial, Economic Context
LaFebre, The Extra-Continental, Imperial, Economic Context
Ancient (pre-conquest) American
Poetry
Films About Indigenous Peoples
(UNDRIP)
INDIGENOUS
PEOPLE OF THE AMERICAS
Instead
of celebrating Columbus Day (Columbus one of the
initiators of Native American genocide), the University of Arkansas
Native American Committee OMNI Center
Arkansas
Newswire
University to Hold Events Celebrating Indigenous People's Day
Programs scheduled for
Today, Oct. 14, and Wednesday, Oct. 16
Monday,
October 14, 2013
Sean Kicummah Teuton, University of Arkansas
“When we observe Indigenous People’s Day,
we recognize the truth about the European conquest and colonization of the
Americas and its devastating effects on indigenous lives still today,” said
Sean Kicummah Teuton, associate professor of English and indigenous studies at
the University of Arkansas. “But Indigenous Peoples’ Day is also a day of
celebration. Focusing only on the colonial past can deny indigenous people
their right to the present.”
Two events will be held on Oct. 14 to
celebrate Indigenous People’s Day. The first, a public reading of indigenous
testimony and literature, will be held from 1-2 p.m. in the Arkansas Union
Lounge. From 2-3 p.m., there will be a walk on the Arkansas Union Mall to
commemorate the Trail of Tears.
“Centuries of conquest, genocide and forced
removals of indigenous peoples led to the Trail of Tears in 1838,” Teuton said.
“At least one route on this Trail of Tears passes through Fayetteville
On Oct. 16, the
20th annual Native American Symposium will be held at 8 p.m. in Giffels
Auditorium in Old Main. It will consist of a screening and discussion of the
film The Last of the Mohicans. The Native American
Symposium is a forum for addressing current issues affecting Native Americans,
along with recognizing their history and appreciating their culture.
Teuton says that recognizing injustices
done to indigenous people of our past is important, but we must also
acknowledge that indigenous people are creating a future for themselves.
“Many indigenous communities are thriving
today,” he said. “They have robust economies, are buying back their land and
are revitalizing their languages. Indigenous people hold U.S.
Teuton is a citizen of the Cherokee Nation,
which is headquartered in Tahlequah , Okla. , 70 miles southeast of Tulsa
“The Cherokee Nation bustles with growth,”
he said. “The Cherokee Nation is one of the largest employers in Oklahoma Columbus
The Native American Student Association is
part of the Center for Multicultural and Diversity Education in the
university’s office of diversity affairs. The Center for Multicultural and
Diversity Education provides academic, cultural and social programs intended
to promote inclusiveness, foster achievement and assist in the development
and advancement of a diverse student body.
Six Years of the UN Declaration on the Rights
of Indigenous Peoples
Today marks six years since the United Nations General
Assembly adopted theUN Declaration on the Rights of
Indigenous Peoples (UNDRIP). In a historic vote on September 13, 2007, 144 countries voted for the Declaration. It is the outcome of 25 years of hard negotiations. The rights spelled out in the document "constitute the minimum standards for the survival, dignity and well-being of the Indigenous Peoples of the world." The Declaration protects collective rights and individual rights of Indigenous Peoples in relation to self-government, land, education, employment, health and other areas.
Several countries have made steps towards aligning their policies with the standards enshrined in the Declaration, however, an implementation gap remains. There has been an increased international focus on Indigenous Peoples' right to participate in decision-making processes, especially on the states' duty to consult Indigenous Peoples to seek their Free, Prior and Informed Consent (FPIC) in regards to issues that will affect their lands, lives, and livelihoods.
As one UN Permanent Forum delegate stated,
"The most important element of Indigenous Peoples' ability to claim the
right of Free, Prior and Informed Consent is to have informed and organized
communities." Access to information about the Declaration and FPIC is
crucial.
Cultural Survival's FPIC Initiative is
strengthening Indigenous Peoples' capacity to implement FPIC by increasing
awareness and understanding of this right through community media and community
exchanges.
GET
INVOLVED!
1. Listen to FPIC radio programs here (en espanol aqui). Help translate into Indigenous languages
and distribute to Indigenous radio stations, contact us:consent@cs.org.
3. Listen and watch a webinar on FPIC organized with First Peoples Worldwide
and International Indian Treaty Council.
4. Be social! Share all this content on facebook and twitter.
5. Invest in Indigenous rights today. Please
support our work! Thank you.
Cultural
Survival is a global leader in the fight to protect Indigenous lands,
languages, and cultures around the world. In partnership with Indigenous
Peoples, we advocate for Indigenous communities whose rights, cultures, and
dignity are under threat. For more information go to www.cs.org
Colonial Crucible: Empire in the Making of the
“The superb essays
in this volume admirably provide a broad approach to understanding the
centuries-long growth of American power.”—Walter LaFeber, author of The
New Empire: An Interpretation of American Expansion, 1860–1898
At the end of the nineteenth
century the United States
swiftly occupied a string of small islands dotting the Caribbean and Western
Pacific, from Puerto Rico and Cuba
to Hawaii and the Philippines U.S. state to its limits, creating both the need
and the opportunity for bold social experiments not yet possible within the United States Washington U.S.
Moving well beyond theory, this volume takes the next step, adding a fine-grained, empirical texture to the study of
“Brilliantly illustrates the
myriad ways in which the costs of empire-building are borne, although neither
equally nor obviously, by both colonizers and the colonized.” —Franklin W.
Knight, Leonard and Helen R. Stulman Professor of History, Johns Hopkins
University
Alfred W. McCoy is the J. R. W. Smail Professor of History at the
University of Wisconsin–Madison and author of A Question of Torture and The Politics of Heroin. 
Francisco A. Scarano is professor of history at the University of Wisconsin–Madison and author of
A
Review of Walter LeFeber’s “The New Empire” : An Interpretation of American
Expansion 1860-1898 (New York, Cornell University Press, 1963).
Walter LaFeber’s “The New Empire” proposes that American
foreign policy
from 1860-1898 was framed by extra-continental expansion based upon an economic
need to find foreign markets in which to sell American surpluses. By examining
the early theorizing of this economic cause
of expansion, its formulation through intellectual, strategic,
and economic channels, and the reaction of policymakers to changing
economic situations through the use of expansion from 1893-1898, LaFeber
claims that the “New Empire” established by 1899 was the culmination of
an American foreign policy whereby policymakers such as Seward,
Blaine, Mahan, and Cleveland used American expansion to establish an
economic chain of markets beneficial to the growth of the United
States. LaFeber begins with the
origin of the idea and the policymakers, such as William Seward and
James Blaine, who he claims set the economic driven expansion in
motion. He uses quotes from Seward such as, “The Nation that draws most
materials and provisions from the earth, and fabricates the most, and
sells the most of productions and fabrics to foreign nations, must be, and will
be, the greatest power of the earth,”
to showcase early calls for economic expansion. He presents
Blaine’s ability to take the idea to a broader level when he
quotes him as saying, “wherever a foothold is found for American
enterprise, it is quickly occupied, and this spirit of adventure,which
seeks its outlet in the mines of South America and the railroads
of Mexico, would not be slow to avail itself of openings for assured and profitable
enterprise.” He claims the formulation
of the idea of economic driven expansion occurred on an intellectual,
a strategic, and an economic level through the work of men such as Mahan,
Blaine, and Patterson. LaFeber uses Mahan to show the intellectual
realization that too much surplus lowered prices in the U.S. Tennessee
LaFeber quotes a State Department official who claims that
after theVenezuelan Border Crisis of 1895
it was clear that “when our manufacturersmust help to swell the volume
of our export trade…It has been the task of Mr. Cleveland’s foreign policy to prepare the way for them, to insure ahospitable
reception for them.”
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He then uses an excerpt from the Banker’sMagazine to show the
economic push toward war with Spain over Cuba,citing that “so many of our citizens
are so involved in the commerce andproduction of the island, that
to protect these interests…the U.S. will haveeventually to force the
establishment of fair and reasonable government.”
The problems
with LaFeber’s thesis begin in his presentation of how economic driven
expansion was developed by men like Seward and Blaine in the 1850s and
60s. While Seward and Blaine were expansionists, Sewardwas distracted
by the Civil War and out of a position of power by 1869 andBlaine
would not become Secretary of State in a full capacity until 1889 and thus
both were incapable of putting into action any sort of concrete
foreign policy initiative from 1860 leading up to 1889. There is also the
question of what else could be driving expansion such as religion, as
men like Josiah Strong proclaimed that Anglo-Saxon America was the pure race
of Christianity and that “this powerful race will move down upon
Mexico, down upon Central and South America…And can anyone doubt that the
result of this competition of races will be the “survival of the
fittest.”
INDIGENOUS
POETRY OF THE AMERICAS
ANCIENT
AMERICAN POETS
translations from Nahuatl, Yucatec Maya, and Quechua
with biographies of the poets
A survey of ancient indigenous poetry focused on three
pre-conquest American Indian poets.
The Flower Songs
by Nezahualcoyotl (Nahuatl)
The Songs of Dzitbalche
by Ah Bam (Yucatec Maya)
The Sacred Hymns of the Situa
by Pachacuti (Quechua)
With commentaries on the lives and times of the poets. Each poem is presented in its original language and in translation.
The Flower Songs
by Nezahualcoyotl (Nahuatl)
The Songs of Dzitbalche
by Ah Bam (Yucatec Maya)
The Sacred Hymns of the Situa
by Pachacuti (Quechua)
With commentaries on the lives and times of the poets. Each poem is presented in its original language and in translation.
Bilingual Review Press ISBN:
1-931010-21-8
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