William BartonWilliam Barton is widely recognized as one of Australia's finest traditional didgeridoo players and a leading didgeridoo player in the classical world after growing up surrounded by many forms of Indigenous and contemporary music. His story will be featuring on the Australian Story ABC Television this coming week 8:00pm Monday the 14th of May 2007. The 30 minute

AIHEC
The collective spirit and voice of our nation’s Tribal Colleges and Universities.

American Indian Higher Education Consortium (AIHEC) was founded in 1972 by the presidents of the nation’s first six Tribal Colleges, as an informal collaboration among member colleges. Today, AIHEC has grown to represent 34 colleges in the United States and one Canadian institution. Unlike most professional associations, it is governed jointly by each member institution.

Summer ResearchThe Indian Health Service, Health Canada, University of Alberta School of Public Health and Johns Hopkins center for American Indian Health are offering a week-long institute course on Indigenous social determinants of health that is being designed as the launch of an indigenous health training program. A total of thirty-five scholars from Indigenous communities from the United States, Canada, Australia and New Zealand will be selected and provided FULL SCHOLARSHIP for tuition, room and board to participate in this institute.

Nominations are Invited for Members for the Research Quality Framework (RQF) Assessment Panels

Please Click Here for a copy of the advertisement that will appear in the
national newspapers this week calling for nominations for members of the
Research Quality Framework Assessment Panels.

A nomination form and information kit containing further details can be found on the DEST website, Click Here

Nominations should be sent to DEST by 5.00pm AEST on Monday, 14 May 2007.

INIHKD

CALL FOR ABSTRACTS - DEADLINE EXTENDED TO MAY 1, 2007

3rd Biennial Meeting of the INIHKD
14-18 October 2007
Rotorua, Aotearoa New Zealand

Please submit abstracts online: Click Here

Hosted by the Aotearoa Network of Indigenous Health Knowledge and Development Trust (ANIHKD), in conjunction with the International Steering Committee of the International Network of Indigenous Health Knowledge and Development (INIHKD)

ICIKFor the next 7 Generations: The Grandmothers Speak

WEDNESDAY, APRIL 25, 12:00 TO 1:00PM
502 KELLER BUILDING, PENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITY
UNITED STATES

Presenter: Cole Hons

"In october of 2004, thirteen Indigenous Grandmothers from around the world-the Amazon, Asia, Africa, Mexico, the Arctic Circle, and the Northwest, Souhtwest, and Midwest of the U.S-gathered in Phoenicia, New York, home of the Iroquois nation that gave us our constitution. They came in fulfillment of similar prophecies that each of them had heard. The prophecy they shared foresaw these tumultuous times we live in. It also told each of them that they must come together to speak out to the world in one united voice that carried their age-old wisdom forward into this new millennium." Join presenter Cole Hons, from Penn Stateʻs Outreach News Bureau, for a DVD viewing and discussion.

I am a Mohawk woman living in Ottawa, Ontario, Canada working on my Doctor of Education Degree on Haudenosaunee peoples and their attitudes towards tobacco. My Master's thesis was on community-based oral Narratives of Mohawk women from my reserve, Tyendinaga Mohawk Territory.

I am interested in finding any resources which will support my research on Indigenous Uses of Tobacco.

If you have any information which may be of help please contact me at dmaracle@rocketmail.com

Niawenko:wa (thank you very much).

Dawn Maracle

First Nations UniversityCALL FOR ABSTRACTS
JULY 20-22, 2007
VANCOUVER, BRITISH COLUMBIA
SPONSORED BY
CENTRE FOR INTERNATIONAL ACADEMIC EXCHANGE
FIRST NATIONS UNIVERSITY OF CANADA

You are invited to submit abstracts for the 4th International Conference on Indigenous Education: Asia/ Pacific to be held in Vancouver July 20-22, 2007 (venue to be announced). This conference will draw together scholars from the Asia/ Pacific region to present academic papers and/ or poster presentations on issues in Indigenous education. Twenty minutes will be allocated for each presentation. Please note that if papers are presented in a language other than English, an English version must be presented by power point projection.

flerWCCESXIII WORLD CONGRESS of COMPARATIVE EDUCATION SOCIETIES
SARAJEVO 3-7 SEPTEMBER 2007

wcces2007 website

Goals of the Congress:
· To develop theory and methodology of comparative and international education based on intercultural dialogue
· To develop a network of research fields in comparative and international education particularly in the regions that have not previously developed those fields (e.g. countries in transition)

WINHEC JOURNAL

The World Indigenous Nations Higher Education Consortium invites papers for the 2007 edition of the WINHEC Journal.

The 2007 edition will be published online in October 2007.

The theme of this edition is

Indigenous voices - Indigenous visions
Contributors are asked to broadly address the themes by either reporting on research, which has affirmed indigenous voices in culture, language or education - or on practice that affirms indigenous visions in education, culture or language. We encourage writers to use interviews with indigenous peoples (voices) as the basis of their papers