By Annie Scott
April 16, 2009
CU Office of News Services Article
David Treuer, an Ojibwe Indian and prize-winning author, will speak at the University of Colorado at Boulder on April 23 as part of the Center of the American West’s Modern Indian Identity Series.
The talk will take place at 7 p.m. in room 150 in the Eaton Humanities Building on the CU-Boulder campus. The event is free and open to the public. (Read on …)
Original Press Release
January 16, 2009
The University of Colorado at Boulder’s Center of the American West and School of Law will host a panel discussion on “Public Lands, Private Ceremonies: Native American Religious Practices and Public Lands in the West” on Jan. 21.
The panel discussion will be held from 7 to 9 p.m. in the Wolf Law Building’s Wittemeyer Courtroom on the CU campus. The panel is free and open to the public.
The program is presented by the Natural Resources and Environmental Law Section of the Boulder County Bar Association, an organization dedicated to improving education and opportunities for its lawyer members through programs and community relations, as well as educating the public about their legal rights and responsibilities. (Read on …)
Wallace Stegner as a White guy, circa 1945
Stephen Trimble
Stegner 100 Blog Entry
November 17, 2008
At the end of World War II, Look Magazine commissioned Wally to write a series of articles on racism. He spent a year and a half traveling the nation with Look photographers, visiting minority communities from Boston to Los Angeles, covering Filipinos, Jews, Blacks, American Indians, and a half-dozen other oppressed peoples. In the end, Look grew too timid to publish what he wrote, and he gathered the essays, with dozens of photographs, in a Family of Man-style picture book published in 1945 called One Nation. (Read on …)
By Felicity Barringer
Published: October 9, 2008
New York Times Article
ROSEBUD, South Dakota: The wind blows incessantly here in the high plains; screen doors do not last. Wind is to South Dakota what forests are to Maine or beaches are to Florida: a natural bounty and a valuable inheritance.
Native American tribes like the Rosebud Sioux now seek to claim that inheritance. If they succeed in building turbine farms to harness some of the country’s strongest and most reliable winds, tribal officials like Ken Haukaas believe, they could create a new economic underpinning for the 29,000 tribal members whose per capita annual income is about $7,700, less than a third the national average. (Read on …)
Mount Rushmore superintendent discusses both in National Park Service management
By Carol Berry, Today correspondent
Indian Country Today
Story Published: Sep 29, 2008 – Story Updated: Sep 25, 2008
BOULDER, Colo. – America’s national parks, venerated family recreation areas since the time of Teddy Roosevelt, may become important reflections of the country’s Native history, aided by a National Park Service superintendent who believes “controversy is always fun and education is always needed.”
Gerard Baker, highest-ranking American Indian in the Park Service and now superintendent of Mount Rushmore National Memorial, said several other historical “battle” sites may join Colorado’s Sand Creek Massacre National Historic Site as officially designated massacre locations. (Read on …)