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Indians still fight injustice, prof says
By ANN PETERSON $taff Reporter
Compared with white Americans, their average life expectancy is far less, their teen-age suicide rate is 100 percent greater and twice as many of them fall below the poverty level. They are American Indians.
The 'Indians' past, present and future struggle for advancement is being presented by Rennard Strickler, a professor of law, in a lecture series this week.
Last night, Strickland gave his first speech, "Genocide at Law: The Historic Native American Experience," and discussed how the Indians' land and culture were destroyed by U.S. law.
The second lecture, "A Different Shade of Nigger: The Contemporary Native American Experience," is
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scheduled for 7:39 tonight in 201 Green Hall.
His third speech, "Coyote Goes to Law School: The Indian Lawyer and the Future of the Native American Environment for Friday." The same time and place.
IN HIS SPEECH tonight, Strickland said, he will focus on the typical summer life of an Indian in 1985.
"It will be like opening a picture window on what it's like to be an Indian today," said Strickland, 44, who is visiting the University of Kansas this semester as the Langston Hughes distinguished visiting professor.
Strickland, whose mother is one-fourth Osage and father is one-eighth Cherokee, said Indians could learn lessons on good health and financial development from the white man.
evelopment from the Indian But many elements of the Indian
way of life can serve as examples for white Americans, Strickland said.
white Anne Jackson. "Indians don't believe we can win a war against nature," he said. "And they have an old custom of seeking a vision to guide their lives when they come to manhood."
come to manhood.
INDIANS TODAY are concerned with preserving their culture and lives, Strickland said, but want the same opportunities as white Americans, including education.
calls, include.
He sieged the 1980 census showed that one half of Indians over 25 had finished high school. But the census also showed that one-half of Indians between ages 18 and 25 had finished high school.
This semester, Strickland teaches Law 964, Law and the American Indian, and Law 910, American Legal History Seminar. He is known nationally as an expert on Indian art.
history and law, Michael Davis, dean of law, said yesterday.
"He is a superb teacher and colleague," Davis said. "He is well-known in the academic field of law."
In the United States, more than 8,000 federal laws, rules and regulations affect the lives of Indians, Strickland said.
"Indians are dominated by American law in no other way society is," Strickland said. "It defines their existence, their tribes."
In his third speech Friday night, Strickland plans to discuss Indian lawyers, whose ranks have increased more than 1,000 today. Strickland said.
At the end of this semester, he said,
he expects to return to the University
of Tulsa, where he conducts research
and teaches classes on Indian law.
College requirements soon may be changed
Students in the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences soon may have to fulfill their distribution requirements by taking introductory courses that fall under three categories and 10 subgroups if the College Assembly approves a recommendation discussed yesterday.
The assembly met to continue discussion of proposals first presented in February by the Committee on Undergraduate Studies and Advising. The proposal is part of a
two-year study to update the College's requirements for bachelor of arts and bachelor of general studies degrees.
degree Distribution requirements now require students to complete three courses of their choice in each of the categories of social sciences, humanities and natural sciences-mathematics. This requirement wouldn't change if the assembly agrees to adopt the principal course proposal.
The change would affect only what courses students take, not how many. Under the proposal, students would be required to take principal courses in nine of 10 proposed topical subgroups, such as a course in physical or biological sciences under the natural sciences-mathematics category.
The assembly defeated an amendment that would have eliminated the topical subgroups in the social sciences and humanities categories.
Andrew Debicki, professor of Spanish and Portuguese who presented the amendment, said departments should be allowed more flexibility when choosing courses they wanted list as principal courses.
The assembly will meet at 4 p.m. Tuesday in Alderson Auditorium of the Kansas Union to further discuss and vote on the committee's main recommendation.
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