[Nat_Issues] FN Meeting under the Seattle Sun

[fnuw at u.washington.edu]

Hi All,

I hope you all had a relaxing weekend and can make it to the First Nations meeting on Wednesday, @6pm in the ECC. We are still working in committees and Vagina Monologues are this Friday. Also, for Tia's project we will be talking about how we define colonization and decolonization. Try to give it some food for thought for tomorrow night's meeting :)

If you missed last meeting here is the agenda:
FN at UW Meeting 2-3-10
	Introductions: Name, Tribe/Nation, Major, and who do you draw inspiration from? 
	Guest: Dalia Amin-Director of Diversity Efforts from ASUW
	Feb. 18th the 4th annual social justice and hunger banquet
o	4745 17th Ave. NE (Corner of 50th and 17th)
o	5:45pm-9pm
o	$2 or canned food item donation
o	Information booth/sell tshirts
o	Confirm by Friday
	Winter quarter mentoring and networking reception: Friday the 5th 3-6pm
o	Info on graduate schools
	Seattle Indian Health Board-Tobacco Coalition Network
o	Potential meeting March 5th-Friday
o	Located at SIHB/Pearl Warren building (Beacon Hill)
	Facebook Fan page!! First Nations @ UW
	Tia time 
	Guest: Andres Munoz-Co-chair for Mecha de UW
	Other Announcements?
	Powwow Committees
o	Before event committees:
	Vendors: Revamp cover letter and contract. Acquire information from past year and coop of who to send letters to, go over method of retrieving contracts, and sending out confirmations…
	Volunteers: Who/where can we recruit? How long of shifts do you want to offer? Looking into setting up a catalyst survey so people can sign up for shifts, be sure to include accommodations as a question…
	 Donations/Fundraising: Revamp the donation letters we have, be more specific of what items we need, how much. Who can we send these letters to? Other ways we can raise some $$$???
	Royalty/Raffle: have a number and email of someone who can do crowns, decide whether we need shawls and will accept polly o. offer, who to give tickets to?.....
	Promotions/PR: tabling, classes, native newsletters, websites-look at others and work on ours…..
	Elder’s Dinner: contact Phil Ward-he may want to assist, what to have? …..
o	Other committees are more day of so think about, but work on later…..
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Hope to see ya there!

~Senteara
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First Nations at UW
Meetings: Wednesday nights, 6pm @ the ECC
fnuw at u.washington.edu
http://students.washington.edu/fnuw
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