"Pop Culture, Corporations and Community" (University Summer Forum)
Tuesday and Thursdays
May 27–June 19, 7–9:30 pm
1100 Grainger Hall, 975 University Ave.
Free and open to the public
Corporate-backed pop culture has a deep impact on our communities, especially
among today’s youth—a generation that often confuses fashion with identity. Are
communities buying into cultural values that are exploitative and divisive? This
Forum explores the influence of popular media on community, and how decoding
culture from corporate media can alert us to hidden messages and agendas
and teach us to reclaim media that will build stronger communities and families.
For more information visit www.dcs.wisc.edu/summer or phone Alex Hancock, 608-262-2102.
Facilitator Mark Anthony Rolo, a lecturer in the School of Human Ecology, teaches
community leadership skills through journalism. He worked as Washington
Bureau Chief for Indian Country Today and executive director of the Native
American Journalists Association. Rolo is a member of the Bad River Band of Lake Superior Ojibwe.
Some of the sessions and guest presenters include:
Through a Cultural Lens (Patti Loew): In the summer of 2007 a group of
students at the Lac Courte Oreilles Indian reservation in northern Wisconsin stood
behind video cameras and sat at editing stations exploring new ways to tell their
stories and to rediscover tribal values. In this session Patty Loew shares the insights these students gained on culture, science, and identity.
The Tragic Magic of Digital Manipulation (Sheila Reaves): Digitized advertisements
create dramatic art and whimsy—but when is the magic a lie? Can
digital manipulation hurt young women vulnerable to eating disorders? Research
suggests that such manipulation lowers self-esteem. Shiela Reaves’ seminal
research reveals how the magazine world is going much further than merely
touching up photographs by airbrushing reality.
UW-Madison American Indian Cultural Center Information Session and Dinner
Friday, June 6, 2008
5:30-7:00pm
Room 259 Educational Sciences Building
1025 W. Johnson St., Madison, WI
Please join us as we begin the program development for the 925 W. Johnson Street facility for Native American student and academic activities. This facility is slated to open in fall of 2009, and we value input from students, faculty, staff, campus partners, and community members.
RSVP's are not necessary, but much appreciated. If you are unable to attend, but would like to share your ideas, please call 608-262-2583 or email aisas@mailplus.wisc.edu.
Please Join in the Next NAHWG Meeting
Wednesday, June 11, 2008
10:00-11:30am
760 WARF Building
PLEASE NOTE MEETING TIME.
Your participation is important!
If you would like to participate in the meeting by telephone, please
contact Judy Knutson with your telephone number. Judy can be reached via jaknutso@wisc.edu, or 608-263-6294.
The agenda thus far includes the following items:
1. Great Lakes NARCH Update (Skoraczewski, Jackson, Poupart)
2. Discuss purpose, current structure of NAHWG meetings
3. Research and Program updates
- MATEC (Sutinen)
- WPHCA
- AHEC, SWAHEC (Siemering, Quirt)
- CDH (Tiger)
- Childhood obesity (Adams)-
- NARCH / Spirit of EAGLES (Strickland)
- Other
4. Additional Items
5. Next Meeting
American Indian Housing Initiative
Dates: June 22-29 (week one)
June 29-July 6 (week two)
The American Indian Housing Initiative, a Summer 2008 Service-Learning Experience, working with the Northern Cheyenne Nation in Lame Deer, Montana, is seeking student participants.
Project Description: This summer (our 6th) the landscape team will complete the natural learning elements on the playground we constructed during summer 2006. The Early Childhood Learning Center is a 4,000 square foot straw-bale building on the Chief Dull Knife College campus. We will design and construct a native plant teaching garden, a water play area and a dramatic play area, as well as work with other AIHI volunteers on the grounds of a prototype green house called the “Morningstar.” Cultural experiences include trail ride, ethno-botanical hike and guided trip to Medicine Rocks (below left). We will camp at Muddy Creek (you must provide your own camping gear). See the AIHI website for details about past projects.
Cost: $400 per week (includes everything except transportation)
For further information, please contact Professor Sam Dennis at sfdennisjr@wisc.edu.
2008 Department of Health and Family Services &
American Indians Against Abuse Tribal Conference
October 28-30th
Ho-Chunk Hotel & Convention Center
Baraboo, WI
More Information
Conference Mission: This is a unique opportunity for county, tribal, state health, human service and law enforcement professionals to increase their skills while celebrating the cultural traditions of Native American tribes in Wisconsin. We come together in a cooperative spirit, using the ongoing exchange of ideas as a means to form new friendships and build bridges between governments and service agencies. It is our mission to send attendees home with a deeper understanding of how to provide culturally appropriate services in tribal communities.
As of 2006, there were an estimated 4.5 million people who were classified as American Indian and Alaska Native alone or American Indian and Alaska Native in combination with one or more other races. This racial group comprises 1.5 percent of the total U.S. population.
1.8 million American Indians and Alaska Natives live on reservations or other trust lands. 57 percent of American Indians and Alaska Natives live in metropolitan areas; this is the lowest metropolitan percentage of any racial group. 1.3 million American Indian and Alaska Natives are under the age of 18, which comprises one-third of this racial group.
Currently, there are 562 federally recognized (AI/AN) tribes, and more than 100 state recognized tribes. There are also tribes that are not state or federally recognized. Federally recognized tribes are provided health and educational assistance through a government agency called Indian Health Service (IHS), U.S. Department of Health and Human Services. The IHS operates a comprehensive health service delivery system for approximately 1.8 million American Indians and Alaska Natives. The majority of those who receive IHS services live mainly on reservations and in rural communities in 35 states, mostly in the western United States and Alaska. 36 percent of the IHS service area population resides in non-Indian areas. Typically, this urban clientele has less accessibility to hospitals; health clinics or contract health services implanted by the IHS and tribal health programs. Studies on the urban American Indian and Alaska Native population has documented a frequency of poor health and limited health care options for this group.
Since 1972, IHS has embarked upon a series of initiatives to fund health-related activities in off-reservation settings, which will make health care services accessible to urban American Indians and Alaska Natives. Currently, the IHS funds 34 urban Indian health organizations, which operate at 41 sites located in cites throughout the United States. Approximately 600,000 American Indians and Alaska Natives are eligible to utilize this program. The thirty-four programs administer: medical services, dental services, community services, alcohol and drug abuse prevention, education and treatment, AIDS and sexually transmitted disease education and prevention services, mental health services, nutrition education and counseling services, pharmacy services, health education, optometry services, social services, and home health care.
For more information about tribal health issues:
Indian Health Service
National Indian Health Board