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 Russell
Jim, Senior Fellow, Wholistic Environmental Management
Recipient of the
Paul B. Beeson Peace Award
October 26, 2002 |
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Seattle, Washington – Yakama
nation cultural leader Russell Jim received the Beeson Peace Award
for his “tireless work for public and environmental health” at
the annual dinner of the Washington Physician’s for Social
Responsibility (WPSR) October
26th. Congratulating Mr. Jim at the event were
Congressman Dennis Kucinich of Ohio and Congressman Jim McDermott,
WPSR President Gerri Haynes and Dr. Jim Trombold from the WPSR
Hanford Task Force. The
Washington Physicians for Social Responsibility organization
presents the prestigious annual Paul B. Beeson Peace Award to noted
leaders making major contributions to the improvement of public
health, the environment and peace in the world. Mr. Jim joins such
prior recipients as former Washington State Governor Mike Lowery,
Professor Giovanni Costigan, Ms. Kay Bullitt, former Seattle Mayor
Norm Rice, Congressman Jim McDermott, political activist and environmental leader Ms. Hazel Wolf
and nuclear energy activist Ms. Betty Tabbutt.
Dr. Jim Trombold introduced
Mr. Jim as the award winner, saying, “Russell is a leader in the
struggle to reclaim Hanford from its huge burden of radioactive and
toxic waste.” Trombold
continued, explaining, “ He is an effective organizer in managing
the complex relations between tribal nations and the U.S. federal
government. He is a powerful orator because he speaks from his
heart.”
Mr. Jim serves as the
manager of the Yakama Nation's Environmental Restoration and Waste
Management Program working to protect the environment, to cleanup
the Hanford Nuclear site while protecting the treaty rights of the
Yakama Nation. |
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Mr.
Jim's Acceptance Remarks |
CWIS
Press Release |
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Taiaiake Alfred
Joe
DeLaCruz Chair for Indian Government Development
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Dr. Gerald Taiaiake Alfred
BA (Concordia), MA (Cornell), PhD (Cornell) |
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Gerald Taiaiake Alfred was born in
the territory of the Mohawk Nation, in 1964. He was raised in
Kahnawà:ke, attended high school in Montréal, and as a young man
served in the US Marine Corps. He studied history at Concordia
University, and holds a Ph.D. in comparative government and
political thought from Cornell University. He has been an advisor
to the Mohawk Council of Kahnawà:ke and other indigenous
governments and organizations for over a decade. He is an
award-winning newspaper columnist, and has written two academic
books: a political history of his own community, Heeding the
Voices of Our Ancestors, and an essay on indigenous ethics and
leadership, Peace, Power, Righteousness. His current writing
projects include a scholarly essay on the Iroquoian warrior ethic,
a philosophical dialogue on the rights and freedoms of indigenous
peoples, and a collection of stories contemporising traditional
Iroquois teachings. He is presently on leave from the University
of Victoria, where he is the founding director of its Indigenous
Governance Program. Taiaiake is an avid outdoorsman and lacrosse
player, and lives with his wife, Rose, in Victoria and Kahnawà:ke.
PUBLICATIONS
Peace, Power, Righteousness: an indigenous manifesto, Oxford
University Press (Canada), 1999.
Heeding the Voices of our Ancestors: Kahnawake Mohawk Politics and
the Rise of Native Nationalism, Oxford University Press (Canada),
1999.
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Rosalee Tizya, Chief George Manuel Chair for Fourth
World Politics
Taiaiake Alfred, Ph.D., Joe DeLaCruz Chair for
Indian Government Development
Richard A. Griggs, Ph.D. ,
Bernard Q. Nietschmann
Chair for Fourth World Geography
(vacant), Joe Tallakson Chair for Public Policy
Russell Jim, Senior Fellow, Wholistic Environmental
Management
Angelina Pont, Fellow, Miskito Traditional
Medicine
Rudolph C. Rÿser, Ph.D., Sovereignty Project
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