UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
Thursday, November 16, 1995
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Michael Yellow Bird, assistant professor of social welfare, right, and Daniel Wildcat, professor of social sciences at Haskell Indian Nations University, left, discuss the assimilation of Native Americans into education.
Panel discusses cultural education
By Hannah Naughton
Kansan staff writer
One at a time, six panelists presented ideas and issues about education and preservation of what many see as endangered cultures.
The panelists — five professors and one student — spoke to about 20 people in the
Burge Union has night They discussed topics ranging from the endangerment of native languages to the importance of Native American students
using education to empower their people.
ing education to empower their people. "This provides an opportunity for students to see what some faculty are doing," said panel member and organizer Corey Welch, Billings, Mont., graduate student
and member of the Native American Student Association. "It could help build a platform in the future to pursue a Native American studies program."
Dorothy Stites, Lawrence senior, was one of the audience members.
"What I see this session as is an empowerment for us Native American students," she said, "I'm finding something in each c."
Native American Heritage Month
are open-minded to me stronger." Akira Yamamoto, professor of linguistics and anthropology, discussed the disappearance of Native American languages. He referred to statistics such as the loss of 51 languages by 1994.
"Language in not only related to identity, but it is also a means to communicate cultural knowledge from one generation to
another." Yamamoto said.
Michael Yellow Bird, assistant professor of social welfare, greeted the audience in his native language. Then he discussed the idea that education, at times, was another way to assimilate Native Americans into the majority American culture.
After Yellow Bird spoke, Daniel Wildcat, professor at Haskell Indian Nations University, spoke about preserving cultures.
Old cultures were thought of as vanishing, but the cultures still are here, he said. There is an incredible power to retain cultures, languages and identity.
"As tough as it is, you've got to be successful, because you are the future warriors," Wildcat said. "You're the ones who are going to be teaching the languages, making the arguments in front of Supreme Court justices and rewriting the history books."
Haskell feels pinch caused by shutdown
By Tara Trenary
Kansan staff writer
Since the halt of the federal government on Tuesday, Haskell Indian Nations University has been feeling the repercussions.
The University will remain open, but will have to deal with some cutbacks and inconveniences.
Hannes Combesch, education secretary to the president of Haskell, said that Haskell received approximately 98 percent of its funds directly from the federal government, while the other two percent came from the Haskell Foundation and other federal agencies.
Combest also said that in anticipation of the government shutdown, Haskell did not fill 24 positions, including faculty, building security, kitchen and resident hall positions.
Since the shutdown, Haskell staffers have been informed that there was no funding for travel for faculty or students, including sports teams. Processing purchase orders such as textbooks for spring semester would not be possible and vacation time for the faculty has been cut out completely, she said.
"We can subsist like this for a while," Combest said. "But it's not pleasant."
The biggest problem is the low morale of the staff, Combest said. Paycheeks could be late, and, as of now, staff members will not receive vacation time for Thanksgiving.
"These are the holiday periods," she said. "We're coming up on the period of time when there's the most giving."
But giving may be impossible this holiday season for staff members depending on their paychecks to arrive on time.
"Every time we go three steps forward, the government makes us go two steps back," said Angie Bitsie, Shiprock, N.M., sophomore, and treasurer of Haskell Student Senate.
The federal government partially shut down on Tuesday morning after President Clinton and Republican leaders failed to agree on a budget deal. It was the first government shutdown in five years.
Bitsie said that the government had always fought, and that if politicians' paychecks were on the line, they would move a lot faster.
"Isn't it always typical for the government to bicker among themselves?" Bitsie said. "That's never going to stop as long as it doesn't affect them directly."
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