Cultural Restoration of Oppressed
Indigenous Peoples
Hosted by the Aboriginal Organizing Team
Humanities Research Unit,
University of Saskatchewan , Saskatoon
Schedule
Summer Institute registration: Wednesday, June 26, 1996
Traveling day home: Sunday July 7, 1996
Purpose of the Institute
1. To explore the current knowledge and efforts for cultural restoration
and to enable new methodologies, conceptual designs and approaches for
implementing healing of Indigenous peoples from within their ecologies;
2. To animate a vigourous research agenda and appropriate publications
that move from existing experience of colonization to theory;
3. To originate a relevant and significant interdisciplinary research
network to nourish and sustain the theme during the UN Decade of
Indigenous Peoples, 1995-2004 and beyond; and
4. To stimulate post-colonial scholarship by inspiring the formation of
new research topics and procedures among graduate students in social
science and humanities.
Agenda
June 25 Travel, Arrival, Greetings, Accommodations, Sweat
June 26 Belonging: Registration, tours, introductions,
readings of prepared materials, informal talks.
June 27-29 Unfolding of themes, keynotes, discussions,
nourishments, talking circles, dinners and cultural
entertainment.
June 30 Spiritual activities, reflections, tours, walks,
nourishments, talking circles, dinners and cultural
entertainment.
July 6 Creating a Research Agenda and Network,
evaluation, dinner, certificate presentations.
July 7 Traveling and Homecoming Ceremonies
Featuring Four Themes and Guest Speakers
The moderator of the Program: Professor Leroy Little Bear Director of
Native American Studies at the University of Lethbridge is a member of the
Blackfoot Nation.
Post Colonial Mappers: Erica-Irene Daes, Chairperson, Working Group on
Indigenous Populations; Russel Barsh, University of Lethbridge, Williensen
Diaz, Guatemala-Costa Rica.
Post Colonial Diagnosticians: Asha Varadharafan, Ted Chamberlain
Post-colonial Imaginators: Amethyst First Rider, Louise Halfe, Linda
Hogan, Helga Lomosits
Post-colonial Healers: Timoti Karetu, Maori Language Commissioner, D.
Hawkmoon Alford, Eber Hampton, Dr. Grejory Cajete, Rigoberta Menchu Tum,
Ted Moses, Alexander Denny, Harold Cardinal, Mary Ellen Turpel, David
Ricketts Kingfisher, Eduardo Duran.
Who should attend?
International Indigenous and non-Indigenous scholars, diagnosticians,
healers, imaginators, and graduate students of contemporary Indigenous
scholarship
Fees
Summer Institute Registration Fee: $500 + 7%GST. It includes tuition and
Institute materials.
Who, Where to send?
Send cheque payable to University of Saskatchewan and registration form to
Dr. Marie Battiste, International Summer Institutes, Dept. of Educational
Foundations, University of Saskatchewan, Saskatoon, Saskatchewan S7N OX1
Accommodation fee: Participants will be housed in the residences on campus
with meals provided in the adjoining Marquis Hall at a rate of $52/day,
inclusive of lodging and three meals per day,and full use of campus
recreational facilities.
Local hotel, if desired, may be secured at rates listed in email
home page: http://www.usask.ca/education/jw/MENU.HTM
Cancellation fee: Cancellation received after June 15 will be subject to a
$100 cancellation fee. Cancellations received on or after June 15, 1996
will be charged the full registration fee.
The cancellation fees are not applicable if a substitute is provided.
Summer institute size is limited to 150 participants. Cheques payable to
University of Saskatchewan should include your name and program name.
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Scholarship Opportunities
Graduate student registration fee: $250.
Graduate students pro-rated fee and bursaries are also available.
For further information, write, fax or call the Director of the Institute,
Marie Battiste.
Save on airfare costs
For more information, call Sinfonia Travel, Ltd.,
Midtown Plaza
Saskatoon, SK. S7K 1J9
Fax: (306) 652-0990
Toll free: (800) 667-6961
More information? Distance sites?
The Web home page for the institute can be found at:
http://www.usask.ca/education/jw/MENU.HTM
To register or to receive more information
Contact: Dr. Marie Battiste, Institute Director
Dept. of Ed .Found. University of Saskatchewan
Saskatoon, Sk. S7H 3Z3
(306) 966-7576 office (306) 966-7020 fax