UH Hilo to award first Ph.D. at 2008 fall commencement (fwd link)

[Bernadette Santamaria]

Phil:

I was one of the first doctoral students for the UA AIS program when it
began--Guy Lopez, myself & others attempted to bring this up with then
Director & others.  We wanted to see an Indigenous language studies
component of the interdisciplinary doctorate degree in the program.  But it
went nowhere; perhaps we were considered too activist oriented.

I would still like to see something like that & courses in the various
Indigenous languages & cultures of AZ, etc.  So this idea has been around,
don't know if other universities, colleges have them at the doctorate level.

Berni SantaMaria
WM Apache Cultural Advisory Board Member

On Thu, Dec 18, 2008 at 9:16 AM, phil cash cash
<cashcash at email.arizona.edu>wrote:

> Wouldn't it be swell if we all could establish a doctoral program
> supporting our language(s)?  A feel good thought for today...
>
> Phil
> UofA
>
>
> Quoting Rolland Nadjiwon <mikinakn at shaw.ca>:
>
> > Thanks Phil...that is really great news to receive. I have been
> > watching what the Hawaiian and Maori peoples have been doing for some
> > time.
> > -------
> > wahjeh
> > rolland nadjiwon
> >
> >
> > ----- Original Message -----
> > From: phil cash cash
> > To: ILAT at LISTSERV.ARIZONA.EDU
> > Sent: Wednesday, December 17, 2008 10:51 AM
> > Subject: [ILAT] UH Hilo to award first Ph.D. at 2008 fall
> > commencement (fwd link)
> >
> >
> > UH Hilo to award first Ph.D. at 2008 fall commencement
> >
> > University of Hawaii at Hilo
> > Contact: Alyson Kakugawa-Leong, (808) 974-7642
> > Director Media Relations
> > Posted: December 16, 2008
> >
> > A Maori educator from New Zealand will become the first recipient
> > of a doctoral
> > degree from the University of Hawaiʻi at Hilo.
> >
> > Katarina Edmonds will receive the Ph.D. in Hawaiian and Indigenous
> > Language and
> > Culture Revitalization awarded by Ka Haka `Ula O Ke`elikolani College of
> > Hawaiian Language. Edmonds will receive her degree in absentia during
> fall
> > commencement, scheduled for Saturday, December 20, beginning at
> > 9:00 a.m. in
> > the UH Hilo New Gym.
> >
> > A member of the Te Whanau a Apanui and Rutaia tribes, Edmonds has
> > an extensive
> > background in language and cultural education dating back to 1980.
> > She earned
> > her undergraduate degrees in education and Maori and a master's in
> applied
> > linguistics from the University of Waikato in Hamilton, New Zealand.
> After
> > eight years of teaching in mainstream, English medium schools,
> > Edmonds became
> > involved in Maori immersion education and discovered the value of
> teaching
> > through the Maori language. Subsequently, Edmonds returned to
> > Waikato to earn a
> > graduate degree in bilingual education and to train Maori immersion
> > teachers in
> > the University's teacher education program.
> >
> > Access full article below:
> > http://www.hawaii.edu/cgi-bin/uhnews?20081216143052
>
>
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