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showers. It was my second time at Neah Bay. I had been here once before, part of a J-Term course, “Makah Culture Past and Present.” My experience from that time was why I returned this past summer. Along with several other PLU students and Professor of Anthropology David Huelsbeck, we came to volunteer at Tribal Journeys, one of the largest Native American celebrations on the West Coast of the United States. My first experience at Neah Bay taught me the warmth of the Makah people – I never had been
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Paul O. Ingram Lecture announced Posted by: hassonja / January 19, 2018 January 19, 2018 The Paul O. Ingram Lecture is scheduled for February 20, 2018 from 7:00 – 9:00 pm in the Scandinavian Cultural Center at Pacific Lutheran University. Guest lecturer Dr. Michelle M. Jacob will present Indigenous Environmentalism as Spiritual Responsibility. Dr. Jacob is a Professor of Indigenous Studies and Director of the Sapsik’ʷałá (Teacher) Education Program at University of Oregon. She is an enrolled
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, Armenian, Cambodian, Rwandan and Native American genocides. Each genocide is its own unit with its own texts, explored both individually and comparatively, through a combination of historical texts, films, memoirs, and first-person testimonies. This fall, Marcus and Griech-Polelle had funding to invite survivors and/or descendants of survivors from each genocide studied in the course, thus giving students a more personal and immediate way to think about each genocide and its legacy in the present
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their attention on post-genocide memory studies and immersed themself in their work of questioning how histories of traumatic events affect populations today. “I am really interested in survivor testimony from different genocides, especially from folks who are not as widely represented such as the Roma and Sinti, and queer and trans victims of the Holocaust,” they said. For their major, Query took courses from six disciplines, including Native American and Indigenous Studies. One of their favorite
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American Council on Education (ACE) program for developing administrative skills, and spent a year as an ACE Fellow at Agnes Scott College. While there, he gained experience and skill in leadership and institutional change, planning, and budget and financial management, which he put to good use at PLU, developing and managing the budget for the Office of the Provost. Bill also served as a project coordinator in the U.S. State Department Bureau of Oceans & International Environmental Affairs, where he
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Washington State Department of Natural Resources permit issued in the early 1990s. PLU students and faculty explored multiple Woodard Bay sites, completing their work on the materials in the mid-1990s.Defining RepatriationRepatriation means the return of cultural items or individuals that were removed from their homeland. In the United States, repatriation almost exclusively refers to American Indian, Native Hawaiian and Alaska Native archaeological artifacts and human remains being returned to their
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. Known variously as ‘Master’s universities’ or ‘comprehensive universities,’ these institutions are neither research universities nor liberal arts colleges, but a hybrid that combines the best of both, integrating liberal arts education with professional preparation. Ernest Boyer described them thirty years ago as colleges that ‘colored outside the lines,’ labeled them ‘New American Colleges,’ and predicted a bright future for them. The emergence of New American Colleges and Universities as high
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Church, Seattle, WA 1/1 Solo Recital at Christ the King Lutheran Church, Houston, TX 2/9 Master Class for students of University of Tennessee and American Guild of Organist Chapter, Knoxville, TN 2/10 Solo Recital at Westminster Presbyterian Church, Knoxville, TN 3/5 Duet Recital with Dana Robinson at The Lutheran Church, Honolulu, Hawaii 3/10 Solo Recital at St Helen’s Episcopal Church, Beaufort, SC Organ Study at PLUOrgan study is alive and well at PLU. Besides weekly organ lessons, organ students
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in Tacoma, where students of color make up more than 60 percent of the population, more than 80 percent of the district’s teachers are white. Egenes has her students at Lincoln explore historical issues in education through an equity lens. Some of the topics they’ve researched include the history of Native American schools, the link between historic neighborhood redlining and school segregation, bilingual education and more. She asks her students to assess their own learning styles and ask
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took their final high school exam, 50 percent failed. “The biggest problem with education is that students are taught in their native language and then they are expected to pass high school in English,” Bryant said. “If they don’t get an education, then they have no future.” Bryant worked with the Salesian Sisters, who run BCC, to give students Karissa Bryant sits with a daughter of the Self Help Group member in Umphrew – a village outside of Shillong. The group members make bricks and sell them in
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