The University of California American Indian Counselors & Recruiters Association (UCAICRA) was developed in 1976.  The goal of the association was to act as a system wide work group designed to provide informational outreach services to the American Indian communities throughout the state targeting students, families, counselors and the community at large.  Historically, the association was designed as informational outreach, but as an increasing need to provide students assistance at an earlier age, has provided awareness to the group to increase services beyond just information.

Spirit of Fire was created to work with young men between the ages of 17 and 24 years.  The goal is to guide and support these individuals through the process of transformation into adulthood.  Spirit of Fire's Independent Transitional Living Program is perfect for the person who is ready or willing to participate in the challenges necessary to become a man or who simply has a desire to learn how to "do it on his own." This program provides an opportunity to practice and enhance skills learned from parents, programs, treatment facilities, and life in general in a "real world" setting that is safe and empowering.

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This is my personal Internet Portal to access and share some of my Information and Computer Science (ICS) aspirations and innovations.  Enjoy and have fun, but if you decide to utilize any of MY Ideas, please contact me first via nikishna@hotmail.com, Thank You very much for your respect...

• Tribes Represented:
  Yakama, Hopi, Menominee, Dakota

• Undergraduate & Graduate students

• Ellensburg, WA 98926

• 509.963.3065

• YahooGroup

• nasa@cwu.edu

• http://www.cwu.edu/~nasa

Recycling is an easy way to help protect the earth’s resources from being further depleted and to keep our precious land from being further destroyed by landfills.  You can make a difference by placing your recyclables in the nearest recycling bin.  Also, make sure to buy recycled content products so that we are reusing and creating a market for the materials that we are making the effort to recycle.  In addition, reducing what we put into the waste stream is important so make double-sided copies whenever possible and avoid using and throwing away excess amounts of paper. We at UCI can positively impact the planet if we each make an effort to recycle, reduce and reuse.

UC, Irvine’s A.I.S.A. is off to a great start, being comprised of 20 members this year.  This means a 285% membership increase from last year.  The organization is represented by a diverse group of people from a variety of ethnic backgrounds, all banding together to build a supportive Indigenous Community.  Each is wonderfully enthusiastic and motivated toward confronting issues head on. 

We have just finished commemorating Native American Heritage Month (N.A.H.M.) which takes place each November.  The first week, A.I.S.A. hosted a Flute performance by Nikishna Myron (Hopi) and then held a Frybread Sale the following day to share Native American culture through music and food.  The second week, we had the Editor and Producer of “Indian Times” newspaper, Director of Native American Student Programs, Earl Sisto (Apache), lead a discussion on resources for Native students at UCR and stories of Native Spirituality, followed by free Indian Tacos.  For the third week, we had two film screenings of “Incident at Oglala,” the Leonard Peltier (Sioux) case study and facts, followed by discussions.  We also held two DreamCatcher Workshops with background history information by Robert “Hank” Stevens (Osage).  Finally, the Closing Ceremony for NAHM featured the Eagle Spirit Dancers, led by Ben Hale (Diné).

The Summer Institute in Computer Science (SICS) is a unique outreach program developed and directed by computer science faculty at the University of California, Irvine. Now in its ninth year of operation, SICS is a comprehensive two week summer program which includes academic instruction and cultural activities.

SICS (formerly AISICS) originated in a partnership between the Navajo Community College (NCC) in Tsaile, AZ, and the Department of Information and Computer Science (ICS) at the University of California, Irvine (UCI), which we initiated in 1991 by a visit to the NCC campus. This then led to the development of a pilot program for NCC students, organized during the Summer of 1992. Results of this program, which was co-sponsored by the Navajo Nation Scholarship Office, the University of California, Irvine, and several corporate sponsors, were extremely encouraging. Over fifty percent of the participants are now pursuing degrees in Computer Science; some have transferred from NCC to our campus where they are working toward their Bachelor of Science degree in Information and Computer Science.

Women’s Studies 50B is the second of three courses in an introductory series.  We will investigate the construction and reproduction of gender inequality, the movements, theories and practices women build and employ to resist these processes.  Of constant consideration will be the diversity of women’s experiences based on identities of class, race, sexuality, and nation.  The course objectives are to:

• Consider many of the major frameworks of feminist thought and how they relate to contemporary social issues around the world
• Examine some of the theoretical debates on international feminism and development paradigms
• Investigate how gender stereotypes are incorporated into the construction and structure of modernity
• Analyze the diversity of women’s paid and unpaid labor
• Explore the practices of organizations that address women’s issues
• Reflect on our own ways of knowing.

Gender and popular culture permeate almost every aspect of our lives. The moments and ways they come together are powerful in shaping how we come to think of who we are and what we should aspire to be. This course will teach you to critically analyze gender as it has been encoded primarily in US popular culture and as it interrelates to commonly held and frequently unquestioned assumptions about race, class, and sexuality.

You will learn to decode the gendered messages and meanings in select examples from each of these sites. You will also learn to understand how political and economic inequalities in the culture industries structure our choices, especially in terms of what it means to be a "normal woman" or a "normal man." And you will develop your skills in considering ideas with which you may not agree but about which you can speak intelligently.

Environmental Psychology 108U

"Environmental Psychology" will explore how the physical environment around us affects behavior, and how the environment is modified to better correspond to the needs and activities of individuals or groups.  Considerations of 'environment' will include physical settings, ambient conditions, and functional and symbolic aspects of places and spaces.  Considerations of 'behavior' will include perception, meaning, health, and individual or group activity and interaction.

Environmental psychology is a young and exciting field that incorporates research and experience from other academic and professional disciplines.  The field of environmental psychology relies on multi-disciplinary perspectives, prefers rigorous field research in real settings, and assumes that the best way to understand the relationship between people and the environments in which they participate is as a dynamic, reciprocal transaction.  The course will review the development of the field of environmental psychology, consider its important concepts and theories, introduce students to major figures in the field and their contributions, and consider the field's future prospects.