Center for Indian Community Development (CICD)

THIS IS A VERY LONG MESSAGE Wow!! Not sure what's up, but CICD has recently had a lot of new "likes". I miss CICD everyday- not just for myself, but because it was a very dynamic, responsive program for almost 50 years. Responsive 1st and foremost to Native communities and their goals as defined by their own authority. CICD was unique as the ONLY fully State funded, hard monied program any where in existence with a mission to serve and support Native driven community devel...opment. Over the decades, under every director, CICD was consistently successful in bringing in grants to increase it's State budget to complement its business as usual, including first and foremost CICD's 40 year effort to revitalize California Indian languages. Anyway, CICD is gone now. HSU closed it on July 1, 2013 and reallocated its funding to some other campus need or vision. I still contend that is the same day they closed INRSEP and ITEPP as dedicated programs for Indian people and communities. As far as I can tell there are no longer any "Indian" programs on campus. But I'm gone, left when the program closed after making sure the language tapes and records were safe guarded. That's what I want to draw attention to- Go! to the HSU Library's Special Collections and get copies of the language recordings from CICD archives. Use them please! Do not let them lie fallow! Also please check out both CICD's and ITEPP's Humboldt Digital Scholar sites hosted through the HSU Library. CICD publications, videos, history, language and reports are posted on its HDS site. Just search CICD HDS and the site should pop up, otherwise try this link http://humboldt-dspace.calstate.edu/xmlui/handle/2148/37 or go to the HSU Library's homepage and then to digital scholar.

Check out this exhibit in the HSU Library. Thank you Susan Gehr! And don't forget CICD documents and language recordings are available in the HSU library Special collection. Some of the records may also be found on-line in the HSU Digital Scholar site. http://library.humboldt.edu/node/778

Just saw that CICD FB page had 20 new views. Thanks for checking it out.

For those of you who are wondering why there have been no recent posts from CICD, just a reminder: HSU closed the center for Indian Community Development in July 2013 after 50 highly successful years in supporting Indian communities in their pursuits and projects. After re-envisioning its services to Native peoples and students, HSU closed the doors of CICD and its sister program the Center for Indian Economic Development. It made fundamental and deep changes to the ITEPP & I...NRSEP missions and focus. INRSEP still exists, but is now under a larger umbrella of services to all students of color in the sciences Of the four HSU programs dedicated solely to Native students and communities only one remains: ITEPP. BUT BUT BUT please check out both CICD's and ITEPP's Humboldt Digital Scholar sites hosted through the HSU Library. CICD publications, videos, history, language and reports are posted on its HDS site. Just search CICD HDS and the site should pop up, otherwise try this link http://humboldt-dspace.calstate.edu/xmlui/handle/2148/37 or go to the HSU libary's homepage and then to digital scholar. ITEPP also has an HDS site. Materials continue to be posted on these sites as time allows, so check back in the future.

Here's a sneak peek of Richard Castaneda's "Sacred Pipe" in our- Artists from the Indigenous Arts Coalition present: "post contemporary" exhibit. Opening reception this Friday, Nov. 8, 5-7pm!