Upcoming Speakers 2006 Bios

Dr. Eduardo Duran (Apache/Tewa), PhD, Clinical Psychology
Friday, March 10, 2006
Dr. Duran is an acclaimed author of "Native American Postcolonial Psychology," "Buddha in Redface," and his newest book:"Healing the Soul Wound: Counseling with American Indians and Other Native Peoples." Please join us in welcoming Dr. Duran to talk with us on contemporary Indigenous healing and clinical practice.

Michael Yellow Bird, Director for the Center for Indigenous Nations Studies
Friday, April 21, 2006 from 11am -12pm
Dr. Michael Yellow Bird (Ph.D., University of Wisconsin) Professor Yellow Bird is a citizen of the Sahnish and Hidatsa First Nations. He is the director of the Center for Indigenous Nations Studies and Associate Professor of American Studies. He has held faculty appointments at the University of British Columbia, Arizona State University, and in the School of Social Welfare at the University of Kansas. He is currently co-editing, with Dr. Angela Cavender Wilson, For Indigenous Eyes Only: The Decolonization Workbook and Social Work Practice with First Nations Peoples: Systems of Helping in the next Millennium, with Drs. Hilary Weaver and Charlotte Goodluck. His research interests focus on Indigenous Peoples, U.S. foreign policy, oral histories of Native Vietnam combat veterans, the effects of colonialism and methods of decolonization, Indigenous men, human rights, and Indigenous political prisoners and prisoner rights. He has conducted research that has supported the empowerment of numerous tribal communities, served as a rapporteur for the health and human rights working group during the Indigenous Peoples International Day at the United Nations, and has been a featured speaker, both nationally and internationally, on topics important to the well being of Indigenous communities