News and Events
November is Native American Heritage Month!
November 17, 2008 at 7:30 PM in 101 Jewett Hall (SUNY Fredonia)The Native American Film Series will be showing "Our Spirits Don't Speak English: Indian Boarding School" hosted by the Native American Student Union. Free and open to the public.
Told from the Native American perspective, this documentary uncovers the dark history of the US government policy and will give a voice to the countless Indian children forced through the system.
Sponsored by the Native American Student Union, Native American SUNY: Western Consortium and the Center for Multicultural Affairs.
November 18, 2008 at 7:30 PM in 101 Jewett Hall (SUNY Fredonia)
Allison Hedge Coke, Tsalagi/Huron poet, sponsored by the SUNY Fredonia English Department and the Mary Louise White Fund. More information to follow.
ANNOUNCEMENT: New Interdisciplinary Doctoral Program at the Uniersity at Buffalo
The Ecosystem Restoration Through Interdisciplinary Exchange (ERIE) program is an NSF-IGERT funded traineeship attended to produce the next generation of scholars and practitioners in the field. Our programs and research opportunities, centered on restoration activities in the lower Great Lakes and surrounding landscapes, watersheds and streams, are interdisciplinary in nature, drawing from eight university departments (including the departments of Native American Studies, Geography, Biology and Civil Engineering) from two regional institutions spanning science, engineering, and policy. The flavor of our program is on the restoration of large water bodies and/or streams, their associated watersheds and landscapes, with the intent to study ways of integrating western and indigenous perspectives into the restoration process. We are currently looking for applicants for entry into our Fall 2009 class and are especially interested in attracting students of native background who may be interested in looking at implementing ecological restoration through indigenous knowledge systems.
Announcement (.pdf file)
For more information, please contact:
David M. Blersch
Research Scientist
Director, ERIE IGERT Program
Department of Civil, Structural and Environmental Engineering
University at Buffalo
202 Jarvis Hall
Buffalo, NY 14260
Phone: 716-645-2114 ext. 2352
dblersch@buffalo.edu