Friday, April 20, 2001
The University Daily Kansan
Section A·Page 3
Senior fun
Tricia Fairchild, Topeka senior, signs a banner that will be seated in the Class of 2001 time capsule. Refreshments, popcorn and snow cones are offered to passerbly on the lawn outside of Stauffer-Flint Hall as part of the Seniors on the Lawn event yesterday. Photo by Selena Jabara/KANSAN.
Talks to explore native culture
By Erin Adamson
writer@kansan.com
Kansas staff writer
Native-American students from universities in the Big 12 and community colleges in the Midwest will take part in the American Indian Big 12 Student Conference this weekend on the University's campus.
Students and members of the Douglas County Native-American community will learn about Native-American leadership and how to join with other Native-American groups on their campuses to plan for the future and reflect on a shared cultural legacy.
Michael Stewart, co-president of First Nations Students Association, said that the majority of First Nations students would be
involved in the events this weekend.
Stewart said the conference is important because Native-American students will be able to see their culture represented on campus.
The association sponsors a powow each year, but the planning was more complicated this year because of the larger audience.
This is the fourth year for the conference and the first time that Kansas has sponsored the event.
Today's events include presentations of scholarly papers, discussions led by elder's councils, an awards banquet and the premiere of the film On Your Own.
Saturday's events include a leadership panel, sessions on college and high school mentoring and a
student speaker. The powwow will start at 7 tomorrow night at the Coffin Complex on the Haskell campus.
Panels at the conference will discuss education, stereotypes of Native Americans, indigenous traditions and medicine, Baker Wetland preservation issues, native sovereignty, violence prevention and women's issues.
Cornel D. Peewardy, assistant professor of education and a faculty adviser for the First Nation Students Association, said the conference, which has been at Oklahoma and Missouri in the past, was centrally located where many Native-American students lived.
"The essence is on leadership development at the University," Pewewardy said.
ON THE NET
For more information on the First Nations Student Association Big 12 Conference, go to www.ukans.edu/~nimma/big xii.htm
He said another important function of the conference was to create a network of mentors for Native-American students. Peewardy said he mentored many students who weren't in the School of Education because they felt more comfortable talking with a Native-American professor and there were relatively few of them at Kansas and other Big 12 universities.
Edited by Doug Pacey
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