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Last Day at NAISA

May 23, 2009 by rw

Can you believe it? It's the last day at our annual meeting. Time always seems to slip by so quickly.

It's deeply gratifying to hear from people that this meeting and this association are helping them in their work.

See you in Tucson!

Robert

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JOBS list on this blog (?)

May 26, 2009 by kiri, 41 weeks 6 days ago
Comment id: 13

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Talofa Lava, Hau Kola,

Any way we can a JOB openings box/post on this blog?
e.g.:

Oglala Lakota College (OLC) in South Dakota (Pine Ridge Rez, on & off) currently has 3 Full Time teaching job openings in the Humanities & Social Sciences dept for: 2 general core ENG College Writing I & II; and 1 for Social Sciences. Check out the quick description at higheredjobs.com: http://www.higheredjobs.com/state/details.cfm?JobCode=175367600

Also, if we land this grant we just submitted, we MIGHT have 3 MORE Full Time Jobs in our HUM/SOC SCI dept (in talks with exactly what kind of positions, such as more creative upper division, etc.). These 3 possible positions would be NEH endowed.

OLC is a tribal college & member of AIHEC (the American Indian Higher Ed. Consortium). Currently, OLC does not have a 'publish or perish' syndrome, & committees have been formed to steer Full-Time teaching positions toward tenure system. Full-Time teaching appointments at this time are for 9-10 month contracts (with fringe).

AIHEC URL: http://www.aihec.org/

Contact me if you're interested (I have met many amazing Native/indigenous scholars at NAISA 2009!).

Forever, 'aso 'uma lava/Pila Maya,

Kiri Close
kclose@olc.edu
CELL/HOME: (308)360-0668

end of conference

May 26, 2009 by grahamharvey, 42 weeks 8 min ago
Comment id: 11

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immensely disappointing that there was no closing event - and no plenary sessions throughout the meeting. and that so many people had left before the end.

otherwise, yes, it was great and I too look forward to doing it again.

perhaps Tuscon could be a paper free event and people could talk instead of read - and thereby present instead of absent themselves and their work...?

yours with great respect,
Graham

Thanks!!

May 24, 2009 by jolan, 42 weeks 1 day ago
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Thanks for the wonderful meeting! I didn't get chance to say hi to you and THANK YOU and the rest of committee who worked on this together in person. I hope more and more Indigenous sisters and brothers / scholars from all over the world (especially from Asia as I only see a couple Asians this time!!) will become part of family and share different views of their wisdom.

giving thanks

May 26, 2009 by grahamharvey, 41 weeks 6 days ago
Comment id: 12

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perhaps an end of meeting event would've allowed us to thank the organisers and each other for the great successes of NAISA...

Thanks for sharing your

May 27, 2009 by rw, 41 weeks 5 days ago
Comment id: 14

Thanks for sharing your opinion (twice) on a closing event. That's been left at all three meetings to the host committees. Now that NAISA has a council perhaps that will change, but it's always been important to give leeway to those who have the best sense of when and how to open and close things.

The members of the acting council were thanked publicly and ably at the opening on Thursday. The three members of the acting council who are stepping away from being officers were given a thunderous standing ovation at the business meeting on Friday.

Thanks again for your comments and for taking part.

Robert Warrior

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