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Law Enforcement Conference: Connecting Science to Crime and Justice

The National Institute of Justice is now accepting applications from TCU students for its American Indian and Alaska Native Student Travel Scholarship Program: Connecting Science to Crime and Justice for 2018. NIJ supports research that addresses important issues facing tribal nations and aims to encourage the next generation of tribal justice researchers and scholars. This year, NIJ will support up to 15 American Indian and Alaska Native undergraduate or graduate students in attending major criminal justice-related conferences to explore the role of science in solving complex problems to increase public safety. Attendance at these conferences will allow students to explore the ways their interest in science applies to crime and justice, and to meet researchers and practitioners currently engaged in similar work. Additionally, students will learn about innovative, evidence-based and technological solutions to justice issues. Application packages are due by 11:59 ET PM on Friday, May 18, 2018. 

https://nij.gov/Documents/native-student-travel-scholarship-announcement-2018.pdf

 Advanced Manufacturing Summer Institute

Opportunity for TCU students to learn about 3-D printing & additive manufacturing; computer-aided manufacturing; and engineering concepts. Applications due May 7, 2018.

http://www.aihec.org/who-we-serve/docs/forStudents/2018AdvancedManufacturingSummerInstitute.pdf

AIHEC Aseto'ne Institute

The AIHEC Aseto'ne Network Project is now taking applications for the AIHEC Aseto'ne Institute, a 2-week summer program for TCU students who are interested or want to learn more about health and biomedical related research. The Institute will be held June 4-15, 2018, at the University of Nebraska Medical Center in Omaha, Nebraska. TCU students will be provided transportation to and from Omaha, lodging, meals and additional support to attend and participate by sponsoring organizations

https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSfPPHj-Y4XfOC-nsbaCHkgE2xY5XrWHe_VWbzBwHmwi2LVykw/viewform

Pre-law Undergraduate Scholars

The University of Alabama School of Law has been awarded a $300,000 grant from the Law School Admission Council to create the Alabama Pre-Law Undergraduate Scholars Program to help prepare students for the law school admission process, success in law school and careers in the legal profession. The program is designed to attract promising students from groups historically underrepresented in the legal profession and from socioeconomically disadvantaged backgrounds, as well as students facing other significant barriers to entering the legal profession. The Alabama PLUS Program will invite about 30 undergraduate students to the Law School in the summers of 2018, 2019 and 2020 to expose them to the joys and rigors of legal education for four weeks. Participants will focus on becoming competitive law school applicants, professional development and exposure to different legal practice areas.

https://www.law.ua.edu/diversity/pre-law-undergraduate-scholars-plus/

Generation Indigenous (Gen-I) initiative, the Center for Native American Youth is launching a new fellowship for Native youth ages 18-24. The Gen-I Movement Builders Fellowship (Gen-I MBF) is a six-month intensive leadership development program that aims to strengthen the voice and role of Native American youth in broader social justice movements. Over the course of six months, five Fellows will gather for two in-person convenings, two virtual convenings, and one Fresh Tracks training expedition. At the end of six months, Fellows will have a small “Innovation Fund” which they will jointly use on a project aimed at strengthening the voice of Native youth in social justice movements. The Fellowship will begin in June and end in December. Click here for more information. All application materials are due at 11:59 PM Pacific Time on Monday, April 30, 2018. CNAY will notify all applicants of their final application status by the second week of May 2018.

https://aspeninstitute.wufoo.com/forms/zo8cm580y1t6fq/

Human Genome Research Institute Short Course in Genomics

The Education and Community Involvement Branch is offering its annual FREE course in Genomics from July 30-August 2, 2018 in Bethesda, MD. Limited space is available and participants must attend all four days of the training.

http://files.constantcontact.com/97d719de201/37d66d93-5d06-48e4-ba53-5ffff3a2ef91.pdf

(This post originated on quora and the answer was written by user Sam Morningstar)

Well, the process would only be complete if after 500 years of alien colonization the American population plummeted to very small levels and humans are confined to reservations. Then, the aliens (supposing they could mate with humans) would all claim that they are “part-human” or have “American blood.”

But, when a human-American (representing a small minority within an alien-dominated population) asks them, “Who is your human-American ancestor?” the alien wouldn’t be able to say who his human-American ancestor was.

He’d say, “I have a photo of my great-grandmother who has human features.” But, then you look at the photo and it’s like:

“This is my great-grandmother. Look at those small, human-American eyes. That’s from her grandmother who was said to be ’‘part-human/American.’”

And if the human-American talked about his people and the inherent sovereignty of his nation, the alien would say, “I’m part-human-American too. Why can’t you just be a part of the Glortax-5000 Confederacy now?” Aren’t we all just Milky Wayans anyway? Why do we always have to focus on our differences?“

Original Source

The term derives from the extremely horrific and racist act of selling Native scalps, ‘skins’, to the United States government. Here is an actual advertisement from The Daily Republican newspaper in Sept. 24, 1863:

Look, non-Indigenous can run around claiming it is non-offensive and it is somewhat common to find Natives who aren’t particularly perturbed by this, mostly because in the hierarchy of needs, the NFL falls way under land rights, clean drinking water, food deserts, etc. I have family members who used to proudly wear ‘Red***n’ apparel, because they were excited it ‘had a Native’ on it. Any representation is better than none, to some people.

With that said, finding one Native who approves of something, who you can then trot out as a spokesperson, is a racist act in its own right. You are essentially telling us that our identity is singular and represented by your designated colonizer.

I don’t care if the term was supposedly created by a Native Person or deemed okay by an Indigenous person. That is like saying that Stella Kübler was the expert spokesperson for all things Jewish or that Ben Carson speaks for the entire Black American community. The term is extremely offensive. There should not even be an argument about this. Instead it should be an education. Indigenous people are not mascots or pets that people can selectively choose to highlight when it is beneficial or supports whatever myth they are trying to sell.

Please don’t ask someone ‘how much Native’ they are. I am not a dog. You are not entitled to check out my pedigree. If you must, ask the person what tribe they are. I say American Indian/Native American as a default, to avoid overwhelming people who are not familiar with Indigenous americans. If you seem interested I usually break it down further. If you are Native, I break it down to tribe/region. If you are from my tribe, I break it down to clan/fam.

Please stop using the word ‘pale face’ to describe yourself in jest. Just don’t. I don’t use it. I don’t know any Native that uses it. But I see a lot of people using it in jest online and have run into people who jokingly refer to themselves as it. I find it offensive because it is a stereotyped patois that is based on a stunted form of ‘tonto-speak’. This also includes words like “squaw” “fire water”.

Please stop asking me about sweatlodge. Chill out. Go to the sauna at 24 fitness if you want to feel dry heat. You don’t ‘need’ to experience an ‘authentic native ceremony’. I will invite you to something if I want to or am allowed to. I don’t have an obligation to expose every part of my life to you. I don’t constantly ask hipsters I have just met to take me to Urban Outfitters or brunch at a microbrewery.

Please don’t act like I am your personal historian/expert on ‘all things Native’. It isn’t my responsibility to educate you. Asking is different than expecting.

Please stop asking me what my thoughts are on the ‘reds**ns” or “#nodapl” when you first meet me. I understand you might be trying to demonstrate an awareness of Indian Country (thanks!), but you don’t have to feel like proving it to me. This makes me feel like you are being super conscious of my ethnicity and not of me as an individual.

Please don’t ask me if I know “John, he is like Cherokee or Chickasaw or something”. We don’t all know each other.

Never, under any circumstances, call me: Squaw, Thunderbird, Indian Princess, Warrior, Chief, or any other racial slur that you find cute. Don’t. 

Understand that if I don’t want to talk about something, it is my right. I really enjoy talking about my culture and sharing it with others. But sometimes I don’t want to discuss certain topics. Asking me about alcoholism on reservations while I am trying to chill out at the pool or prompting me to discuss land rights during intermission at the Symphony is weird.

Which reminds me, please don’t assume correlations based on stereotypes. If I tell you I don’t want a drink, do not automatically assume it is because ‘I am Native”. This seems so outlandish - yet if I had a quarter for every time someone has said this, I could probably afford to separate my laundry at the washateria.

Please don’t compliment me with a “for a Native”-qualifier. I love compliments! But when someone tells me “I speak really well for a Native” “Smart for a Native” that hurts on a lot of levels. You are basically saying you have lowered expectations of me and my community while having the gall to patronize me with your unwelcome approval.

Be aware of your own culture. When I am being nice enough to share stories of my culture with you and you automatically respond with “that’s so weird!” think about what you are saying. You are calling my culture weird because it is not your culture. It’s a default of a lot of people to assume that their culture is the ORIGINAL! AUTHENTIC! OG BEDROCK! culture and that everything else is backwards or a subgroup.

Also put some thought into your questions. When you say something like, “Why are reservations so poor?” “Why don’t Natives get jobs?”. You are basically assuming that these are issues we don’t discuss ad nauseum on the rez. You are also showing off your ignorance of basic American History and Policies, like the Indian Termination Policy and historical oppression.

Please don’t immediately ask me about casinos. Not all tribes have them. It is just a stereotype. Don’t ask me about ‘free money’. Not all tribes get per capita payments. It is just a stereotype.

Please don’t feel the need to ‘top my nativeness’. When i tell someone who asks what tribe I am, and they reply ‘Never heard of it’ and then proceed to continue with “…But I am a Cherokee Princess”. I don’t know what you want me to do, Congratulate you on something impossible? Genuflect?

And this is more personal and perhaps it is just indicative of the phase of life I am in right now, the annoying ‘opinionated-Tribal college-educated-politically active’-phase, but people using the word ‘savage’ bothers me so much. I get that it has become super mainstream slang and it is not uncommon to see sorority girls with “savage!!!! <3 <3” captioned all over their instagram. But I find this usage so offensive. If your people were never considered ‘savages’, if you have never been called ‘a savage’, if it is a slur that has never been applied to you, don’t suddenly reclaim it as a positive word.

2019-2020 Fellowships at The Metropolitan Museum of Art

The Metropolitan Museum of Art welcomes applications from scholars of art history, archaeology, conservation and related sciences, education, as well as from scholars in other disciplines whose projects are interdisciplinary in nature and relate to objects in The Met’s collection. The tremendous diversity of fellows’ projects reflects the historic and geographic diversity of the Museum’s collection. The community of fellows becomes immersed in the intellectual life of the Museum and takes part in a robust program of colloquia, roundtable seminars, research-sharing workshops, behind-the-scenes tours of exhibitions, conversations with Museum staff, and visits to the curatorial and conservation departments. Fellows form long-lasting professional relationships as they discuss research questions, look closely at objects, and share the experience of living in New York City.

Applications for 2019–2020 Fellowships will open September 1, 2018. Please visit http://www.metmuseum.org/about-the-met/fellowships for more information. Questions may be sent to [email protected].

Fresh Tracks Southwest/Intermountain Leadership Training in New Mexico!

Fresh Tracks brings young leaders from urban, rural, and tribal communities together during a three-day expedition, using the outdoors as a background for transformative leadership development. Youth will learn valuable organizing skills, create community action plans, and work with the Center for Native American Youth, along with partners from Children & Nature Network’s Natural Leaders and Opportunity Youth United, to make a lasting impact in their home communities. The training will be held in Abiquiú, New Mexico from September 14 -16 (including travel dates). Travel, lodging, and meals will be covered for selected participants. https://freshtracksaction.org/apply/

7th Annual Native American Studies Graduate Student Symposium - Honoring Seven Generations: History, Praxis and Futurities

#WeNeedYouHere Suicide Prevention Campaign

Eligibility: Participants must be American Indian or Alaska Native and between the ages of 15 and 24 years old.

To Enter the Contest:
Download and print the #WeNeedYouHere sign.
Add your own hopeful message to the sign and take a photo.
Submit the form to share your message with WeRNative and enter the contest.
Questions? Email [email protected]

2018 QuestBridge Scholarships

AmeriCorps VISTA Native Food Sovereignty Fellows 

work in Native American communities to contribute to and assist in efforts focused on food sovereignty, food systems, nutritional education, and the development of tribal economies that build opportunities in food and agriculture. The fellowship is the result of a unique partnership between VISTA, the Shakopee Mdewakanton Sioux Community and IFAI. VISTA positions are paid positions that provide a living allowance, educational benefits upon successful completion of the assignment, a child care benefit (if applicable) and other supporting benefits. Native Food Sovereignty Fellows work closely with the IFAI and receive ongoing training and assistance to augment their local work. The application period is now open. Space is limited, and they are looking to fill positions as quickly as possible.
https://www.nationalservice.gov/programs/americorps/americorps-programs/americorps-vista/life-vista-member

Semester in Washington’s Scholarship for Native Students

If you need help writing a resume: https://novoresume.com/career-blog/how-to-write-a-resume-guide

And if you are interested in applying, but don’t feel ‘good enough’: 

Give it a try anyway - who knows what can happen! :)

Native Arts Grant
First Nations Development Institute (FNDI) established the Native Arts Initiative to stimulate long-term perpetuation, proliferation, and revitalization of artistic and cultural assets in Native communities. Through the Initiative, FNDI awards grants ranging from $15,000 to $32,000 to Native-led nonprofits and tribal government programs that serve Native American artists in the Upper Midwest, Southwest, and Pacific Northwest. Applications are due by 5:00 pm Mountain Time on August 30.

Fresh Tracks brings youth from from urban, rural, and tribal communities together for a three-day expedition, using the outdoors as a background for transformative, cross-cultural leadership development. Youth learn valuable organizing skills, create community action plans, and work with the Center for Native American Youth and partners to make a lasting impact in their home communities. The third of four regional trainings will be held in Indiana from August 10 -12 (including travel dates). Travel, lodging, and meals are covered for participants. Registration is due 12:00 pm Eastern Time on August 3rd.

Nebraska NPR and PBS station is hiring!
NET Office Associate
Provide administrative/operational support to NET including: Radio Manager, News Department, and general administration by scheduling meetings, processing expense invoices, preparing forms, answering phones and correspondence, preparing confidential memos and reports, and maintaining department files. Maintain supplies for the department and manage basic office functions as needed. 30 hours per week.
http://www.netnebraska.org/careers

Black Public Media 360 Incubator
Deadline: Friday, August 31, 2018
Black Public Media (BPM), the nation’s only nonprofit dedicated solely to media content about the black experience, has issued an open call to producers for nonfiction broadcast projects (individual programs or series pilots) and scripted or nonfiction digital web series. The third round of BPM’s 360 Incubator+ will see as many as 10 teams contend for up to $150,000 in funding to help produce the pilots or funding reels of their broadcast or digital projects. The program is designed to get quality programming and content into the pipeline and help move it to market.
https://act.myngp.com/el/E9QQEUyy8mUdmSIuwDC9baMm48GfQODo6gxiB22zfkA=/_dJRqAEkhDnMlPduq2xfRKdnasPdcTUNo_xKSAJF8Ew=
Center for Native American Youth
http://www.cnay.org

Grants here:
First Nations Development Institute
https://firstnations.org

Scholarships here: https://collegefund.org
American Indian College Fund

And if any of you guys are still interested in going to college this Fall, but not sure how or where to start or just want someone to look over your resume or to help you with your application - just message me! Don’t be shy. We all got our start by asking someone a question :)