The next IUN Anthropology Club meeting will be Wed Oct 2, 4:30-6:30 in
the IUN Library Coffee Shop sofa area. Please spread the word, faculty
and students please announce in classes. The minutes of the last
meeting are at the end of this newsletter. Items for Oct 2: tress and
Day of the Dead honors for Clarke; activity boxes; plans for booksale
Oct 21-25 ;party plans Oct 12; scholarship questions; plans for BARFAA
conference.

Kathy Forgey is hosting a welcome back party for the IUN Department of
Sociology and Anthropology on Saturday Oct 12, 2002. All students,
former students, staff and faculty with any connection to the clubs or
department are invited to join us. Please let all the Sociology and
Anthropology students know. It's a great opportunity to meet and talk
with other people who are interested in the same things as you are.
Come any time after 6:30, families are most welcome; it's pot luck, so
please bring a dish or chips or soda to share; ethnic foods are
particularly encouraged. BYOB if you're 21 and bring a designated
driver. It is in Chesterton, directions are:
1. From Chicago or Gary, take I-94 East to IN-49 South Exit
(Chesterton).
2. At the 3rd stoplight, turn LEFT (east) on 1100 North.
3. Go to the end of the street, which only turns LEFT (north) onto Sand
Creek Drive South.
4. The address is 1517 Sand Creek Drive South.
5. Our house is about 15 minutes EAST of the I-80/Broadway south
entrance that takes you to IUN.
to get a map, go to http://mapquest.com and type in her address and city
(Kathy: what phone # should they call for info?)

New faculty at IUN: John Low, the professor who took Clarke's place
mid-term last spring, has been given a one year visiting lectureship at
IUN. Professor Low will also be organizing a Day of the Dead display in
Clarke's honor; to contribute, please call him at 980-6789, or drop by
Lindenwood.

The CAPA group now has a web page: http://www.erickamenchen.net/capa/

A message via the CAPA group:
Help! One week from Saturday, (Oct 5), from 12-2 or 4-6 pm,
we need people to help facilitate informal discussions among
participants about aspects of culture as found in objects which are handcrafted. (And
attend the event/meal free).
The Event: The Craft of Making Middle Eastern Music (an event hosted by
The Arab American Action Network Arts Council)
How many volunteers needed: 5 needed from 12-2, 5 needed from 4-6
Where: At Southwest Youth Collaborative, 6400 S. Kedzie
When: Oct 5 12-2 or 4-6 pm (please arrive 15 minutes early)
The task: one volunteer facilitator per table sits with
8 or so participants during a meal following a presentation on Arab
American culture and the making of music. (this will include live performance of oud music) The facilitator encourages participants to share
their experiences of handcrafted objects within their culture. We
provide written questions as conversation starters if needed. (volunteer job description available)
FREE ADMISSION, including ethnic meal for volunteer facilitators.
NEED MORE INFO? Call or email me. (see below)
Also some info on the web site:
http://www.fieldmuseum.org/ccuc (Cultural Connections)
Many Thanks,
Rebecca Severson
The Field Museum Cultural Connections Program
312 665 7480
rseverson@fmnh.org

If you happen to be in Indy on Wed Oct 2, Robert Bakker, the dinosaur
paleontologist, is speaking at Butler U, Atherton Union Reilly Room,
7:30 CDT/EST; free; info call 317-940-9861

Lecture at Notre Dame:
The Department of Anthropology
Kent Lightfoot
Professor
Department of Anthropology
UC Berkeley
Indians, Missionaries, and Merchants: The Making of the California Frontiers
Thursday, October 3, 2002
4:00 PM
126 DeBartolo Hall
University of Notre Dame
Professor Lightfoot will discuss the early colonization of
California by Spain and Russia and the impact that these
colonial programs had on native peoples. Specifically, he
will examine how the different policies and practices of
Franciscan missionaries and Russian merchants contributed to
different kinds of encounters with local hunter-gatherer
peoples. The talk will emphasize recent findings from
archaeological investigations in the greater San Francisco
Bay Area.

October 11-13, Indigenous Peoples' Art Market, Mount Pleasant MI, at the
Soaring Eagle Casino, Saganaw-Chippewa tribe (there are two Mount
Pleasants in Michigan, I think this is the one near the center of the
state, not the one just across the state line)

Events at the Mitchell Museum, Evanston Ill:
Sunday Oct 6: 1 pm. Sweetgrass & Quilled Birchbark Basketmaking demo,
Priscilla Curley (Chippewa-Poawatomi) (Baskets for sale, too)
Thurs Oct 10, 7 pm: Songs & stories of the Native AMerican Flute, John
Aserton (Lakota)
Sunday Oct 20, 2:30 Buffalo Roast
Sun Oct 27, 1 pm: what is a wigwam? Ken Schwuchow
Sun Nov 3, 1 pm: Researching Native AMerican History,
Mark Thiel, Marquette U.
SUn Nov 10, 1 pm: How to go to a Powwow, Mary Wyatt (Oneida)
Thurs Nov 14, 7 pm: Honoring Native Culture: Navajos in the 1940's,
Duncan Burns, (Creek)
(and a dozen Kid's Crafts on Saturdays, plus a book club.)
ph 847-475-1030; directions at http://www.mitchellmuseum.org

49th Annual American Indian center of Chicago Pow-Wow
Nov 15, 16, 17, Northeastern Ill U., 5500 N St Louis Ave, Chicago.
call 773-275-5871, or http://www.aic-chicago.org

Oct 3-6, 48th annual MidWest archaeology conference, OSU, Columbus Ohio;
http://anthropology.ohio-state.edu

Oct 10-12, North Central Council of Latin Americanists, U Wisconsin
Platteville. evensonm@uwplatt.edu 608-342-1006

Oct 17-19, Pioneer America Society, Springfield ILL.
tracey_sculle@ihpa.state.il.us 217-785-4324

Nov 14-15, Lewis and Clark Conference, Penn State U;
http://lewisandclarkoutreach.psu.edu

EVENT: The Northwestern University Race and Ethnicity Study Group
The Northwestern University Race and Ethnicity Study Group welcomes
graduate students and faculty from DePaul, Loyola, Northwestern,
UIC, U of C, and all other Chicago area campuses with a special
interest in race and ethnicity as categories of analysis in a broad
variety of contemporary and historical cultural studies work. The
Group, which is designed to be transdisciplinary, meets three to
four times a year to discuss a paper (usually work-in-progress)
presented by one of its members or the occasional visiting scholar.
Membership is open. Refreshments will be provided. The faculty
coordinator is Professor Dwight A. McBride.
THE NEXT MEETING OF THE RACE AND ETHNICITY STUDY GROUP WILL BE ON
Wednesday, November 6, 2002 7:30-9:30 PM
at the home of Dwight McBride
7245 N. Ridge Blvd., Chicago, 60613
Our speaker will be
MARY PATTILLO
Associate Professor
Departments of African American Studies and Sociology
Northwestern University
speaking on:
"Black Gentrification?"
All interested faculty and graduate students are urged to attend.
Refreshments will be served.
From Northwestern: Take Ridge Ave. south from Evanston. The house
is located on Ridge Blvd. in Chicago five blocks south of Howard
(south of Chase and north of Touhy) on the east side of the street.
It is a brown house with a white picket fence. Street parking is
ample.
From Downtown Chicago: Take Lakeshore Drive north until it ends. It
turns into Hollywood. Stay on Hollywood until it turns right and
becomes Ridge. Stay in the right lane on Ridge. Shortly after you
cross Clark, the road will split; Ridge stays to the right. You
will then go under an overpass at which point signs will direct you
that Ridge turns right again. Stay on Ridge all the way up to the
house which is just north of Touhy on the right hand side of the
street. (It is the brown cedar shingle house with the white picket
fence). Street parking is ample.
CTA: Take the red or purple line train to Howard. Outside the
station, transfer to the 290 Pace bus bound for Cumberland (Howard
is the easterly terminus point for the bus, so one is almost always
waiting) . It will be a short bus ride to the corner of Ridge and
Touhy where you will exit the bus. Proceed north on Ridge a half
block to the house which will be on the east side of the street. It
is a brown house with a white picket fence.
The Race and Ethnicity Study Group is sponsored by Northwestern's
Department African American Studies.
For further information contact:
Dwight A. McBride
Chair, Department of African American Studies
Northwestern University
847-467-1662 (office)

JOB; BIOLOGICAL ANTHROPOLOGIST
The Department of Anthropology,
University of Colorado at Boulder
invites applications for a tenure track Assistant Professor
position in biological anthropology to begin Fall 2003.
We seek a biological anthropologist with a solid ecological
focus within his or her research agenda, and are especially interested
in a scholar specializing in some aspect of human biology. The
successful applicant will complement faculty strengths in the ecology
and adaptation of human and nonhuman primates, both extant and extinct.
Applicants should have an active research program,
and a demonstrated ability to obtain external funding.
They must also show evidence of excellence in teaching and a
willingness to supervise graduate students.
We will be conducting preliminary interviews at the AAA
meetings in New Orleans.
The University of Colorado at Boulder is committed to
diversity and equality in education and employment.
Applications should be received by December 10, 2002
but earlier submission is encouraged,
and applications will be reviewed as they are received.
Please send a cover letter, CV and names of four references
to: Professor Darna L. Dufour, Chair, Biological Search
Committee, Department of Anthropology, 233 UCB,
University of Colorado, Boulder, CO 80309-0233 USA.
Phone: 303-492-2547.
Fax: 303-492-1871.
E-mail: anthsrch@colorado.edu .

IUN Anthropology Club Meeting minutes 9/18/02 4:30-6:30 (since this is
going to the larger list and not just the members, I have omitted names)
Attendance: 10 students, one faculty; minutes by Justice Cochran
Old Business:
1. Memorial Trees: We have five trees waiting for us. There is still
a question of where to plant them. Will discuss again next meeting
2. Discovery boxes: want to know if any of the proposed boxes have had
any progress made on them.
New Business:
1. BARFAA conference Oct 18-20: took names of those interested in
attending. If you have not spoken to Kathy about it and would like to
go, please contact her soon. working on getting rooms and looking for
funding for the trip. meeting info is at:
http://archlab.uindy.edu/2002meetings.html
2. The book sale will be from October 21-25. Workers are needed,
particularly on Friday. volunteered to work as their schedules permit.
Contacting the local and campus papers to place an ad.
3. This years scholarship had a tie winner. This brings the question
of how to handle this situation in the future.
4. suggested having a potlatch or a multi-cultural day. The idea was
accepted and will be looked into.
5. suggested that the club need be more active. A get-together was
proposed. Dates and location are being looked into
6. informed us that September 28, 11-7:30 Valpo University is having a
Native American event.
7. suggested that we need a venue for our students to present papers,
perhaps a mini-conference. Tie in with Darwin Day? (which is Feb 12
this year) Do a mini conference the day of Darwin or the day before or
after?
8. suggested that we have more hands-on presentations on campus.
9. suggested that we do a "Careers in Anthropology" day.
10. Next meeting: Oct 2, 4:30-6:30. Coffee Shop

--
Bob Mucci
Associate Professor and Coordinator of Anthropology
Indiana University Northwest
3400 Broadway, Gary IN 46408
219-980-6607

"Education not slogans is our motto"