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Date: Wed, 13 Jan 1999 10:04:48 -0400
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Subject: CALL FOR SCHOLARS IN NATIVE STUDIES
The following is an article from the Winter 1998 issue of Native Americas, published by the Akwe:kon Press at Cornell University. For more information on how to stay informed of emerging trends that impact Native peoples throughout the hemisphere visit our website at http://nativeamericas.aip.cornell.edu.
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CALL FOR SCHOLARS IN NATIVE STUDIES
By David L. Moore
In the continuing emergence of North-South solidarity, a new chapter was
opened through a two-part conference on "Indigenous Intellectual
Sovereignties: A Hemispheric Convocation." The first gathering was
held in April at the University of California at Davis, and the second in
August at the Instituto Cultural de Oaxaca, in Oaxaca, Mexico. By David L. Moore
Native and non-Native intellectuals from throughout the Americas gathered, "to focus on the academic discipline of Native American Studies." Studies of literatures and languages converged throughout the agendas as a desirable framework for promoting cultural continuity.
The two meetings brought together more than 70 writers and scholars, community literacy workers, journalists, financial consultants and students. Participants came from Mexico, the United States and Canada as well as Argentina, Guatemala and Peru.
The conference coordinators from the U.C. Davis, Inez Hernadez-Avila and Stefano Varese, stated the key questions for the gathering:
--How are we elaborating the search for, exploration and representation of Native intelligence in all its complex modalities?
--How are Native and non-Native writers, professors and intellectuals, formulating our pedagogies?
--What informs our methodologies?
--How do we choose our creative research projects?
--How can we support and formally recognize each other's work, given that this is one concrete way of (re)creating community and strengthening the spaces we have occupied in the universities?
--How have we collaborated with other Native and non-Native institutions, with Native and global communities?�
--Do we have principles in common that guide us and that emanate from our communities to firmly establish the bases for our work?
In Oaxaca, Victor de la Cruz laid the conceptual groundwork. He described a shift between globalization from the top, a mercantile process of the last five centuries, and globalization from the bottom, an indigenous process largely through language preservation and literature.
Gaspar Pedro Gonzalez, a Mayan from Asociaci�n Cultural Beyb'al, described a Congress of Indigenous Writers held earlier in the summer in his Native Guatemala. He said this cultural initiative is exciting to all indigenous peoples, yet it is hampered in his country by the severe imbalance of wealth among the classes and the results of 35 years of war. The recent peace accord opens possibilities for indigenous peoples' to have access to their own reality via new laws for indigenous languages in the schools, health services and other social reforms.�
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