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on April 29, 2021
Elizabeth Reese, Yunpoví (Willow Flower in the Tewa language), was born on the Nambé Pueblo reservation, one of the oldest continually inhabited Indigenous communities in the U.S. that sits just north of Santa Fe, New Mexico and where she is tribally enrolled. She grew up immersed in Nambé’s culture, participating in traditions that date back thousands of years to that exact location.
But when her parents decided to pursue Ph.D. degrees, her family moved to Champaign-Urbana, Illinois where they found themselves the only Native American family in a town where the mascot of the local university, the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, was a racist caricature of a Native American person. Though Reese remained close to her community, spending summers and holidays at the Pueblo, she experienced racially-charged bullying in her new town. Always, she was the only Native person in her classes. She never had a Native
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Stanford Law Hires First Native American Faculty Member
Law360 (April 27, 2021, 3:39 PM EDT) Elizabeth Reese experienced culture shock as a child when her parents took her from the traditional Pueblo adobe house that her great-grandparents had built on the Nambé Pueblo reservation in New Mexico so they could pursue advanced degrees at the University of Illinois. I hadn t expected it to be a problem when we moved out because we had never been in such all-white spaces before, Reese said. So I didn t know how complete the erasure of Native people was and how effective the stereotypes of Native people were at capturing the imaginations of white people who didn t know any contemporary Indian.
Scientific due diligence for humanitarian Disaster Risk Financing: A guide for data scientists and humanitarian practitioners
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NEW TOOL LAUNCHED FOR RESPONSIBLE USE OF SCIENTIFIC DATA WITHIN HUMANITARIAN PROJECTS
A global network of NGOs has today launched a new guide for scientists and humanitarians to encourage the responsible use of scientific data in humanitarian decision-making.
This guide has been developed by Start Network as a result of its work with the Drought Risk Finance Science Laboratory (DRiSL) and is being launched as part of its work to shift humanitarian funding from reactive to proactive, from late to early, using data as a key driver of proactive decisions.
Here is what we know.
First the good news:
The good news for tribes and Native American children’s advocates and adoptive families is that the court upheld important aspects of the act. The en banc court holds that Congress was authorized to enact the Indian Child Welfare Act and concludes that this authority derives from Congress’s enduring obligations to Indian tribes and its plenary authority to discharge this duty. In other words, the act is constitutional.
In this 2019 photo, Cherokee Nation Principal Chief Chuck Hoskin Jr. speaks during a news conference in Tahlequah, Oklahoma. (AP Photo/Sue Ogrocki, File)
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Teen Area at the library
The library now has a lego table, legos and lego books for its teen area due to receiving a grant from the Mansfield Trust.
The library was also able to purchase four new soft chairs, four stackable chairs and a table for the Teen Area through this grant.
Want to come in for a visit? Ring the bell to the right of the door to be let in for 30 minutes. Masks are required. Browse for books, use a computer, build a Lego masterpiece, use the Wi-fi.
Summer Reading/Learning
Plans are underway for our annual summer programming. The library plans to be Virtual again this year. This year’s theme is “Reading Colors your World.” Watch for more information as it gets closer to June.