(Carta remitida por: Luis E. Cárcamo-Huechante, carcamohuechante@austin.utexas.edu)

17 de Diciembre de 2011
Sr. James Anaya
Relator Especial sobre la Situación de Derechos Humanos y Libertades Fundamentales de los Pueblos indígenas
Naciones Unidas
Presente.

Distinguido Sr. Relator James Anaya:

En las últimas semanas, una severa acción represiva de la policía chilena se ha desplegado contra una comunidad mapuche en Temucuicui, específicamente la Comunidad Autónoma Temucuicui, ubicada en la zona de Malleco, en el sur de Chile. Estos lamentables operativos policiales han significado atroces actos de violencia estatal y atropellos a los derechos humanos contra dicha población mapuche. En nuestra calidad de académicos, escritores y artistas, particularmente atentos a la situación de los pueblos indígenas y sus culturas, le expresamos nuestra consternación ante la represión policial de la que están siendo objeto los miembros de la Comunidad Autónoma Temucuicui, situación que se ha agravado en las últimas semanas, con traumáticos costos para la citada comunidad.

(Submitted by: Luis E. Cárcamo-Huechante, carcamohuechante@austin.utexas.edu)

December 17, 2011

Mr. James Anaya
Special Rapporteur on the Situation of Human Rights and Fundamental Freedoms of Indigenous
Peoples
United Nations

Dear Honorable James Anaya,
In the past several weeks, a severe repressive action has been deployed by the Chilean police against members of the Mapuche community of Temucuicui in the Malleco zone of southern Chile. These dire police operations have involved egregious acts of state violence and human rights abuses against this Mapuche population. As scholars, writers and artists who are particularly attentive to the situation of indigenous peoples and their cultures, we write to express our concern with this urgent situation which continues to deteriorate day by day, generating traumatic costs for this Mapuche community.

NATIONAL COUNCIL FOR PUBLIC HISTORY (US) CFP

2013 NCPH Call for Proposals
“Knowing your Public(s)—The Significance of Audiences in Public History”
2013 Annual Meeting, National Council on Public History
Ottawa, Ontario, Canada, April 17-20, 2013

Dear NAISA Members:

The NAISA Council is looking for volunteers to serve as Chairs for sessions at the 2012 NAISA meeting at Mohegan Sun, Uncasville, CT, June 4-6, 2012, sponsored by The New England Host Consortium.  If you are willing to serve in this capacity, please reply to Willie Brown at willie.naisa@gmail.com. Please indicate what areas and specialties are most interesting to you as a potential chair. Also, please indicate if you are willing to make comments, as well.

Call For Papers

The SAI and Its Legacies
Chadwick Allen and Beth H. Piatote, Editors

DEADLINE for the Call for Proposals for the NAISA conference to be held at Mohegan Sun at Uncasville, CT, in June is Friday, November 4, 2011, at midnight.

Ha’shi?, warm greetings dear colleagues,

I wish to inform you of the upcoming 41st Congress of the Canadian Association for Latin American and Caribbean Studies (CALACS) conference, May 18-20th, hosted by the Latin American Studies program, at the University of British Columbia Okanagan. The deadline for proposals is October 25, 2011.

“Hemispheric Approaches to Native American Studies”

As the NAISA Prize Committee Chair, I am happy to post the winners of best book and paper prizes at the 2011 NAISA annual meeting in Sacramento. And one more congratulations to everyone for your brilliant work and contributions to our growing field!

MOST INFLUENTIAL BOOKS IN NATIVE AMERICAN AND INDIGENOUS STUDIES OF THE FIRST DECADE OF THE TWENTY-FIRST CENTURY PRIZE (awarded 2011)

1. Noenoe Silva, Aloha Betrayed: Native Hawaiian Resistance to American Colonialism (Durham: Duke University Press, 2004).