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[Susan Penfield]

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EXTENDED DEADLINE!



Call for Proposals: NMU 2008 Indigenous Earth Day Summit



Northern Michigan University is seeking presentation proposals for the 2008
Indigenous Earth Day Summit to be held at NMU April 22-23. This summit is
made possible by the Center for Native American Studies, the Environmental
Science Program and the Office of International Programs.



This summit will function as a call to action on Indigenous environmental
issues in the Great Lakes area, on Turtle Island and around the world.  An
Aboriginal Australian delegation from the Traditional Knowledge Revival
Pathways project (see http://www.tkrp.com.au/) will be featured as keynote
presenters and will provide musical entertainment.



Presentations should ultimately include ideas on how to address Indigenous
environmental concerns.  Topics include, but are not limited to, the
following:



- Traditional Ecological Knowledge (T.E.K.)

- Education and Indigenous environmental concerns

- History of industrialism, industrial threats, Indigenous peoples and the
Earth

- Economic globalization and Indigenous peoples

- Indigenous languages and the Earth

- Solutions in Indigenous cultures to environmental problems

- Indigenous subsistence rights and protection of sacred land

- Global poisoning and the impact on Indigenous peoples

- Climate change and its impact on Indigenous peoples



A variety of presentations are encouraged (music, art, films as well as
papers and panels).



Activists, Native elders and Native community members are strongly
encouraged to submit proposals.



Proposals should be 150-300 words in length. Deadline for submissions has
been extended to Monday, March 17, 2008.



Send to: cnas at nmu.edu

(attachments should only be in Microsoft Word or as a PDF)

Subject line: Indigenous Earth Day Summit Proposal



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Center for Native American Studies

Northern Michigan University

1401 Presque Isle Ave

Marquette, MI 49855





For more information call 906-227-1397 or visit www.nmu.edu/nativeamericans





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____________________________________________________________
Susan D. Penfield, Ph.D.

Department of English (Primary)
American Indian Language Development Institute (AILDI)
Second Language Acquisition & Teaching Ph.D. Program (SLAT)
Department of Language,Reading and Culture(LRC)
Department of Linguistics
The Southwest Center (Research)
Phone for messages: (520) 621-1836


"Every language is an old-growth forest of the mind, a watershed of thought,
an ecosystem of spiritual possibilities."

                                                         Wade Davis...(on a
Starbucks cup...)
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