AAAS SYMPOSIUM
February 14-18 2008 Boston , MA
“ Power in its Place: Science in Tribal Welfare ”

Organizers: Roberto Gonzalez-Plaza, Northwestern University and SEED Graduate Institute
Mimi E. Lam, University of British Columbia and University of New Mexico

What is the specific role for science education in Indian welfare? The mandate facing Tribal Colleges and Universities (TCUs) is education that reflects the identity and sovereignty of the tribal communities chartering them. The crucible in the future Indian educational process is to significantly increase federal and local funding, and a commitment to the welfare of Indian people through traditional knowledge, science and technological education. The federal government's violation of treaties guaranteeing Native Americans equitable access to education has created a history of underfunding and neglect of education with dire consequences, especially in delivering new scientific knowledge, and the inability to support the revitalization of cultural traditional knowledge .

Speakers

Daniel R. Wildcat , Haskell Indian University , Environmental Research Studies Center

Gregory A. Cajete , University of New Mexico , Native American Studies.

Nancy Maryboy , Indigenous Education Institute.

Douglas L. Medin , Northwestern University, Department of Psychology

Megan Bang , AIC, Chicago; TERC, Cambridge

Phillip H. Duran , Independent Scholar

Leroy Little Bear , University of Lethbridge , Native American Studies

James Rattling-Leaf , Sinte Gleska University, Sicangu Policy Institute

HARVARD UNIVERSITY NATIVE AMERICAN PROGRA (HUNAP) WORKSHOP, Feb. 2008, Cambridge , MA . In tandem with AAAS. Date to be announced.

“ Indigenous Ways of Knowing and STEM: Tensions, successes and possibilities ”

This meeting is organized together with Megan Bang, TERC , (Technological Education and Research Centers ) and the American Indian Center of Chicago, and co-sponsored by the Harvard Project on American Socioeconomic Development . Travel awards available to participants, including undergrads . Contact:

Roberto Gonzalez-Plaza, Roberto.Gonzalez-Plaza@wwu.edu , 360-393-8392

Mimi E. Lam, m.lam@fisheries.ubc.ca , 604-822-3843

Megan Bang , megan_bang@terc.edu , 617-873-9641