Richard Grounds speaks to students about the current status of Native Languages Announcements 2006 Winter Quarter Course Offering NATIVEAM 109B: Native Americans in the 21st Century: Encounters, Identity, and Sovereignty in Contemporary America Taught by Professor Michael Wilcox Day & Time: Tuesday and Thursday, 1:15-2:45 pm Location: Building 200-305 Description:  What does it mean to be a Native American in the 21st century? Beyond traditional portrayals of military conquests, cultural collapse, and assimilation, the relationships between Native Americans and American society. Focus is on three themes leading to in-class moot court trials: colonial encounters and colonizing discourses; frontiers and boundaries; and sovereignty of self and nation. Topics include gender in native communities, American Indian law, readings by native authors, and Indians in film and popular culture.   For information, contact mwilcox@stanford.edu or visit at Building 110, Room 112. NATIVEAM 116: Language Culture and Education in Native North America (same as CSRE 116, CASA 116X) Taught by: Dr. Sharon Nelson-Barber Visiting Lecturer in Native American Studies Day & Time: Monday, 10:00-11:50 am Location: 60-62J Description:  Communication and language in crosscultural education, including literacy and interethnic communication in relation to native classrooms in the mainland U.S., Alaska, and nations and territories of the Pacific. Focus is on implications of social, cultural, and linguistic diversity for educational practice in bridging intercultural differences between schools and native communities. For information, contact mibarra@stanford.edu or visit the CCSRE Undergraduate Program Office, Building 240, Room 103. NATIVEAM 138: American Indians in Comparative Historical Perspective Taught by: Dr. Matthew Snipp Day & Time: Monday and Wednesday, 2:15-3:30 pm Location: 60-62J Description:  Demographic, political, and economic processes and events that shaped relations between Euro-Americans and American Indians, 1600-1890. How the intersection of these processes affected the outcome of conflicts between these two groups, and how this conflict was decisive in determining the social position of American Indians in the late 19th century and the evolution of the doctrine of tribal sovereignty. For information, contact Dr. Snipp by phone (650) 725-0414 or visit the Building 120, Room 138. NATIVEAM 193N: Peer Counseling: Native American Community Taught by: Dr. Winona Simms and Alejandro Martinez Day & Time: Wednesday, 3:15-5:05 pm Location: School of Education 209 Description:  Verbal and non-verbal communication, strategic use of questions, methods of dealing with strong feelings, and conflict resolution. How elements of counseling apply to Native Americans including client, counselor, and situational variables in counseling, non-verbal communication, the role of ethnic identity in self-understanding, the relationship of culture to personal development, the impact of family on personal development, gender roles, and the experience of Native American students in university settings. Individual skill development, group exercises, and role practice. For information, contact wsimms@stanford.edu or visit the American Indian, Alaskan Natives, and Native Hawaiian Programs Office. NATIVEAM 233A: Counseling Theories and Interventions from a Multicultural Perspective Taught by: Dr. Teresa LaFromboise Day & Time: Monday and Wednesday, 9:00-10:50 am Location: Bldg420-050 Description:  The impact of culture on counseling and intervention, theory problem presentation, relationship formation, and intervention development and evaluation in individual and group counseling, and in helping encounters in school and community settings. For information, contact lafrom@stanford.edu or visit at 216 Cubberley Building. About Native American Studies Native American Studies is part of Comparative Studies in Race and Ethnicity (CSRE) at Stanford.  Undergraduate sttudents can major or minor in Native American Studies. The Center for Comparative Studies in Race and Ethnicity at Stanford University provides many opportunities for teaching and research on topics of race and ethnicity from both domestic and international comparative perspectives.  Since 1996 it has drawn on on the intellectual interests of nearly one-hundred Affiliated Faculty, who represent fourteen departments and all six schools at the University. There are three Native American Faculty members teaching at Stanford.  All may teach courses within CSRE. (Read below a partial list of courses being taught during Winter Quarter 2004.)  Dr. Teresa LaFromboise (Miami) Education Dr. Matthew Snipp (Choctaw/Cherokee) Sociology Dr. Michael Wilcox (Yuma) Cultural and Social Anthropology Resources The Native American Resource Center, next door to the Native American Cultural Center, has an extensive library including books, periodicals, video and audio tapes, and a community archive.  The list of Native American Authors on the Internet Public Library is also a valuable reference.  The Stanford University Library website has a page devoted to Native American Studies resources.  http://library.stanford.edu/depts/ssrg/native/indian.html   The Cantor Center for Visual Arts (the Stanford Museum) has an extensive Native American collection representing tribal and geographic groups from Alaska to Hawai'i and from Canada to South America. http://www.stanford.edu/dept/SUMA/natam.html For everything from individual research opportunities to graduate school application services, please refer to Undergraduate Research Programs at Stanford.