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</o:shapelayout></xml><![endif]--></head><body bgcolor=white lang=EN-US link=blue vlink=purple><div class=WordSection1><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'>Alice,<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'>This looks amazing! I’m so excited UMass will be hosting this important conversation. I will definitely bring it into my teaching for next fall and ask my students to attend! <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'>Take care,<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'>Lisa<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><div><div style='border:none;border-top:solid #B5C4DF 1.0pt;padding:3.0pt 0in 0in 0in'><p class=MsoNormal><b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif";color:windowtext'>From:</span></b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif";color:windowtext'> nativestudies-l-bounces@mailman.yale.edu [mailto:nativestudies-l-bounces@mailman.yale.edu] <b>On Behalf Of </b>Alice Nash<br><b>Sent:</b> Thursday, May 24, 2012 12:21 PM<br><b>To:</b> nativestudies-l@mailman.yale.edu<br><b>Subject:</b> [nativestudies-l] Possible guest speakers - Kirstie Parker and Greg Younging<o:p></o:p></span></p></div></div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>Dear Colleagues,<br><br>The Fall 2012 Feinberg Family Distinguished Lecture Series, sponsored by the University of Massachusetts Amherst, will focus on the "Truth and Reconciliation, History and Justice." The opening event on October 2 is a symposium on "Indigenous Peoples and Truth and Reconciliation." The morning session will focus on established processes in Canada and Australia. The afternoon session is on "Reconciling with the Doctrine of Discovery and Domination," following up on this year's special theme of the U.N. Permanent Forum on Indigenous issues, 11th session.<br><br>Two confirmed speakers are traveling a long way so before we book their flights, let me know asap if you would like to piggyback on this event, since we are paying their major travel expenses. <br><br>Journalist <b><span lang=EN>Kirstie Parker</span></b><span lang=EN> is a Yuwallarai Aboriginal woman from New South Wales, Australia</span>. She is Managing Editor of the <i>Koori Mail</i> and a member of the Board of Directors of Reconciliation Australia .<br><br><b>Greg Younging</b> (Opaskwayak Cree) is Assistant Professor of Indigenous Studies at the University of British Columbia Okanagan and Assistant Director of Research for Canada's Truth and Reconciliation Commission.<br><br>(Longer bios are included below fyi.) <br><br>At present we plan to have the speakers arrive on Monday, Oct. 1 and depart on Friday, Oct. 6. They might be available to speak elsewhere on Wednesday, Oct. 3. They will participate in a full-day symposium at UMass Amherst on Tuesday, Oct. 2 and attend the keynote address for the series by James Anaya, U.N. Special Rapporteur on Indigenous Peoples, the evening of Thursday, Oct. 4.<br><br>Please contact me if you want further details about the series and this event. I will announce both to this list once all details are confirmed.<br><br>All the best,<br>Alice<br><br>Journalist <b>Kirstie Parker</b> is a Yuwallarai Aboriginal woman from New South Wales, Australia. She has more than 20 years experience in journalism and communications. Since July 2006, she has been the Editor of the national Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander newspaper, the Koori Mail. Prior to this, she was Media and Communications Manager at the Australian Institute of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Studies (AIATSIS) in Canberra, ran the award-winning Australian Indigenous Leadership Centre (AILC), and was the Director of the National Aboriginal Cultural Institute - Tandanya in Adelaide. She was Director of Public Affairs for ATSIC for two and a half years, and media adviser to a Federal Minister for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Affairs for two years. She has also worked for ABC Radio and the West Australian newspaper, and was Editor of a weekly regional newspaper in far north QLD. In 2003, she received a Centenary Medal for her contribution to the Indigenous community and Australian life. Kirstie Parker is currently a member of the board of Reconciliation Australia, a national organization promoting reconciliation between Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples and the broader Australian community. For further information about this project see <a href="http://www.reconciliation.org.au/home">http://www.reconciliation.org.au/home</a>.<br><br><b>Greg Younging</b> (Opaskwayak Cree), Assistant Professor of Indigenous Studies at the University of British Columbia Okanagan, has a Ph.D. in Educational Studies from the University of British Columbia. He has worked for the Royal Commission on Aboriginal Peoples, the Assembly of First Nations, the Committee of Inquiry into Indian Education and the Native Women’s Association of Canada. From 1990 to 2003, he was Managing Editor of Theytus Books, a First Nations owned- and operated publisher. He has been a member of the Canada Council Aboriginal Peoples Committee on the Arts, the British Columbia Arts Council, and the Indigenous Peoples’ Caucus of the Creator’s Rights Alliance. In 2011 he was appointed as Assistant Director of Research to the Truth and Reconciliation Commission (TRC) of Canada, which addresses the history, legacy and inter-generational impacts of the residential school system on Indigenous peoples in Canada. Starting in the 1840s, up to 95% of the children in some areas went through the residential school system, experiencing ruptured family relationships, language loss, and in many cases physical, emotional and/or sexual abuse. The survivors later sued the Government of Canada and the churches who ran these schools. The TRC was established in 2008 with a five-year mandate as part of the Indian Residential Schools Settlement Agreement, the largest class-action settlement in Canadian history; see <a href="http://www.residentialschoolsettlement.ca/English.html">http://www.residentialschoolsettlement.ca/English.html</a>. The final report will include major recommendations to the Government of Canada about how to heal the country and the survivors, and how to bring reconciliation between indigenous and non-indigenous peoples in Canada. For further information on this Commission, see <a href="http://www.trc.ca">http://www.trc.ca</a>.<br><br><br>Alice Nash<br>Associate Professor of History<br>University of Massachusetts<br>Amherst, MA 01003<br><a href="mailto:anash@history.umass.edu">anash@history.umass.edu</a><o:p></o:p></p></div></body></html>