NIGC weekly meeting, held in Wilson Hall, Wilson 101
In attendance:
-Adriana Black, (Costa Rica) American Studies, WSU
-Kim-Trieu Nguyen Doan,(Vietnam) Inter-Cultural Anthropology, WSU
-David Warner, (First Nations-Mexico) American Studies,WSU
-Jessica and John, Undergrads, Native American Alliance, WSU
-Ayano Ginoza, (Okinawa), American Studies, WSU
-Margo Tamez, (Lipan Apache and Jumano Apache), American Studies, WSU
-Jorge Tapia, (Mexico) Spanish and Latin American Studies/Spanish Lit., University of Idaho
The meeting started off by addressing Ayano's concerns about structure in the group. She proposed dividing up responsibilities equally between members, which David agreed on. Margo's perception as to why this comes up had to do with notions of construction of hierarchy. We as a council (if this is the route we want to take), should have a process where everyone can hear their voices heard and vote on issues for the group and feel that their vote was accounted for. This is a decolonized space and this is a way of dismantling colonization.
We also discussed how we are going to address the issue of chair/co-chair. Ayano pointed out that we needed to define what kind of power people will have and what we mean by equal responsibilities. There needs to be a level where everyone is OK with the decisions being made on behalf of the council. We discussed as a group that for the sake of university's business and formality, we would have the same people who are now chair (Michelle) and co-chairs (Margo and David) continue to serve that role, however, the opinions of everyone who participate of the council meetings and it's a member counts. Margo also pointed out that we needed to make more concrete decisions on the goals we have. Dave lead a discussion regarding the consciousness that needs to take place when it comes to power, voice and representation if we are going to continue to have a non-hierarchical structure as a group.
David suggested the creation of an activity where the agenda is to explicitly invite people who are part of the group and really get to know them in an informal setting and not a meeting structure.
Ayano also brought up the issue of communication within the group itself and how we need to begin to communicate more effectively amongst those who are currently coming to the meetings.
It was also suggested by Margo that we podcast our meetings for those who can't be present, but continue to have an interest in what the group is doing. We also discussed the possibility of using the radio spot offered to all students on campus. No final decisions were made on these two topics.
Conference and marketing: a project that came up last spring and fell out but is being brought up again to see if this is of interest still to the group. Who is presenting at the Native Expo?
Adriana proposed that we hold our next meeting at the Native American Center. The council agreed. We also discussed at length the upcoming Native Graduate Expo and the visit of organizers to our next meeting. The next meeting will be held on TUESDAY, OCTOBER 14, 2008 at NOON.
Since Ayano will be the facilitator for said meeting, she agreed to email the members of NIGC to ask them to post their questions for the organizers of the expo. We also agreed to ask Norma if we could set up conference call availability for those who wanted to be there via telephone.
Ayano on proposed structure- we need to come up with a clear agenda, stay on task and address any other items outside of the agenda afterwards if time allows.
We went back to the discussion on distribution of responsibilities and came up with the following:
Dave- issues on professionalization. This has to do with our work with undergrads, etc.
Margo - media and communications
Adriana - Social gatherings
Ayano - creation of awareness about indigenous people of Asia
Trieu- a program of re-education on the way western civilization classes are being taught. Indiginizing and decolonizing the curriculum.
Blog access: we decided as a council to give access to those who come to our meetings regularly, the facilitators of the meeting who could post minutes and those who are active members but cannot make the meetings. Margo agreed to email the information to the people present at the meeting immediately afterwards.
The floor was given to the representatives of the Native American Alliance.
Since the last meeting, they have narrowed down their ideas for their upcoming conference to 20 schools mostly Native in ID, WA, OR, and MT. They limited it to Friday, Saturday and Sunday, with Saturday being their only full day and check out on Sunday by noon. Also they put a limit to 3 representatives from each school.
The conference will be held in Spokane. They still need to do the fundraising, contact the schools and book hotels and conference rooms.
We spoke about having another meeting on Sunday to fill out the application to receive cougparents funds. We will hold this meeting on SUNDAY, OCTOBER 12, 2008 in Wilson 101 at 2:00 p.m.
They also set dates for the Pow Wow for the weekend of Easter (April 10-11, 2009)
Margo suggested to both members of NAA to create a blog or a place where she can direct people interested to their upcoming events and also as a source for public relations that would include "tight language", imagery for marketing, etc. Facebook was suggested as a good source to start a group.
A motion to vote on tabling the NIGC conference for this year in exchange to fully supporting the undergrad conference was made by Margo. Everyone present agreed to do so as long as both organizations could get what they wanted out of the conference.
The meeting was adjourned at around 7:30 p.m.
In attendance:
-Adriana Black, (Costa Rica) American Studies, WSU
-Kim-Trieu Nguyen Doan,(Vietnam) Inter-Cultural Anthropology, WSU
-David Warner, (First Nations-Mexico) American Studies,WSU
-Jessica and John, Undergrads, Native American Alliance, WSU
-Ayano Ginoza, (Okinawa), American Studies, WSU
-Margo Tamez, (Lipan Apache and Jumano Apache), American Studies, WSU
-Jorge Tapia, (Mexico) Spanish and Latin American Studies/Spanish Lit., University of Idaho
The meeting started off by addressing Ayano's concerns about structure in the group. She proposed dividing up responsibilities equally between members, which David agreed on. Margo's perception as to why this comes up had to do with notions of construction of hierarchy. We as a council (if this is the route we want to take), should have a process where everyone can hear their voices heard and vote on issues for the group and feel that their vote was accounted for. This is a decolonized space and this is a way of dismantling colonization.
We also discussed how we are going to address the issue of chair/co-chair. Ayano pointed out that we needed to define what kind of power people will have and what we mean by equal responsibilities. There needs to be a level where everyone is OK with the decisions being made on behalf of the council. We discussed as a group that for the sake of university's business and formality, we would have the same people who are now chair (Michelle) and co-chairs (Margo and David) continue to serve that role, however, the opinions of everyone who participate of the council meetings and it's a member counts. Margo also pointed out that we needed to make more concrete decisions on the goals we have. Dave lead a discussion regarding the consciousness that needs to take place when it comes to power, voice and representation if we are going to continue to have a non-hierarchical structure as a group.
David suggested the creation of an activity where the agenda is to explicitly invite people who are part of the group and really get to know them in an informal setting and not a meeting structure.
Ayano also brought up the issue of communication within the group itself and how we need to begin to communicate more effectively amongst those who are currently coming to the meetings.
It was also suggested by Margo that we podcast our meetings for those who can't be present, but continue to have an interest in what the group is doing. We also discussed the possibility of using the radio spot offered to all students on campus. No final decisions were made on these two topics.
Conference and marketing: a project that came up last spring and fell out but is being brought up again to see if this is of interest still to the group. Who is presenting at the Native Expo?
Adriana proposed that we hold our next meeting at the Native American Center. The council agreed. We also discussed at length the upcoming Native Graduate Expo and the visit of organizers to our next meeting. The next meeting will be held on TUESDAY, OCTOBER 14, 2008 at NOON.
Since Ayano will be the facilitator for said meeting, she agreed to email the members of NIGC to ask them to post their questions for the organizers of the expo. We also agreed to ask Norma if we could set up conference call availability for those who wanted to be there via telephone.
Ayano on proposed structure- we need to come up with a clear agenda, stay on task and address any other items outside of the agenda afterwards if time allows.
We went back to the discussion on distribution of responsibilities and came up with the following:
Dave- issues on professionalization. This has to do with our work with undergrads, etc.
Margo - media and communications
Adriana - Social gatherings
Ayano - creation of awareness about indigenous people of Asia
Trieu- a program of re-education on the way western civilization classes are being taught. Indiginizing and decolonizing the curriculum.
Blog access: we decided as a council to give access to those who come to our meetings regularly, the facilitators of the meeting who could post minutes and those who are active members but cannot make the meetings. Margo agreed to email the information to the people present at the meeting immediately afterwards.
The floor was given to the representatives of the Native American Alliance.
Since the last meeting, they have narrowed down their ideas for their upcoming conference to 20 schools mostly Native in ID, WA, OR, and MT. They limited it to Friday, Saturday and Sunday, with Saturday being their only full day and check out on Sunday by noon. Also they put a limit to 3 representatives from each school.
The conference will be held in Spokane. They still need to do the fundraising, contact the schools and book hotels and conference rooms.
We spoke about having another meeting on Sunday to fill out the application to receive cougparents funds. We will hold this meeting on SUNDAY, OCTOBER 12, 2008 in Wilson 101 at 2:00 p.m.
They also set dates for the Pow Wow for the weekend of Easter (April 10-11, 2009)
Margo suggested to both members of NAA to create a blog or a place where she can direct people interested to their upcoming events and also as a source for public relations that would include "tight language", imagery for marketing, etc. Facebook was suggested as a good source to start a group.
A motion to vote on tabling the NIGC conference for this year in exchange to fully supporting the undergrad conference was made by Margo. Everyone present agreed to do so as long as both organizations could get what they wanted out of the conference.
The meeting was adjourned at around 7:30 p.m.
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