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NASANative American Student Association at the University of Chicago |
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The University of Chicago’s Native American Student Association, NASA, is an association designed for students and faculty to discuss the cultural, social and political concerns involving Native Americans and to raise knowledge and understanding of these concerns within the U of C community. NASA sponsors Native American social, cultural, and academic events and programs throughout the year in conjunction with other organizations and departments. NASA is strongly dedicated to creating a community of scholars and is open to all University of Chicago students, faculty, staff and alumni, both Native American and non-Native American from all disciplines.
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Recent Events: On March 1st, 2007 the NASA hosted Dr. C. Matthew Snipp, Professor of Sociology at Stanford University, with the School of Social Service Administration, Center for the Study of Race, Politics and Culture, Office of Minority Student Affairs, International House, Department of Sociology, and Student Government at the University of Chicago (for flyer click here).
In his talk "ON BEING NATIVE IN THE 21ST
CENTURY: New Meanings, New Data" Snipp explicated
that there is a great deal of volatility in the reporting of race by
persons of American Indian ancestry. Working with Census data collected
using several different variations of a question designed to elicit
information about racial identification, Snipp has been examining how
factors such as residence, education, and family composition are related
to racial identification especially in the existence of multiracial backgrounds. For Dr. Snipp's
PowerPoint presentation, click
here.
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Featured Past Events: In Winter 2006, the Native American Student Association hosted Chief John P. Froman, head of the Peoria Tribe of Indians of Oklahoma, with OMSA and International House at the University of Chicago. Chief Froman's Peoria Tribe is part of a confederation of four tribes originally from the Illinois area that were forced to migrate first to Missouri, then to Kansas, and which finally settled in northeastern Oklahoma. Chief Froman's talk, entitled “Cultural Identity, Sovereignty, and Politics: Tribal Leading,” focused on the challenges of tribe leadership and discussed the controversial use of American Indian characters and tribal symbols as sports team mascots. For full story, click here. Below, please, find pictures from Chief Froman's U of C campus tour, lecture, and reception (courtesy of Antonie Dvorakova).
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In Spring 2006, the NASA hosted a very successful lecture series “Researching Native America: Current Perspectives on American Indians” with OMSA and the I House. This series featured Chicago’s foremost scholars of Native American Anthropology: The University of Chicago’s Professor Raymond Fogelson, Assistant Professor Jessica Cattelino, and Professor Emeritus Anne-Terry Straus. In addition, the series featured Native American scholar Dr. Laurie Arnold, Interim Director of the D’Arcy McNickle Center for American Indian History, the University of Chicago’s award-winning filmmaker, Judy Hoffman who has worked closely with the Kwakwaka’wakw for more than twenty years, and Ph.D. candidate in the Department of Comparative Human Development at the University of Chicago, Antonie Dvorakova from the Czech Republic, who explores the experience of Native American scholars teaching and researching at mainstream universities. |
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Please, contact the webmaster, Antonie Dvorakova, at advorak"at"uchicago.edu with any suggestions concerning the improvement of this website. |
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NASA
general meetings typically meet once every six weeks on Wednesday evenings at
the Amandla Student Center (located at 1116 East 59th Street on the mezzanine
level of Harper Memorial Library in the East Tower). If you would like to be
informed of the next NASA meeting, please contact Jonathon Medrano at
jmedra2"at"uchicago.edu.
NASA members with guest speaker