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This year the annual event of the American Anthropological Association will be held in Philadelphia.   I’ll be tweeting from the meeting:  you can find me at www.twitter.com/charlesmenzies.  hashtag is #AAA09

Here’s my preliminary itinerary of the sessions that I am planning to check in on.

Rachel Marsden, former SFU student, blazed into the fuzzy mascot debate with a decidedly untactful and provocative whine about poor white people being disrespected.  John  Semley provides a nice riposte to Marsden

Over the past week or so, frothing conservative columnist Rachel Marsden has been carving out an editorial niche for herself criticizing (and criticizing, and criticizing) the 2010 Vancouver Olympics logo and mascots. Writing for the Daily Telegraph, Canada’s ex-pat answer to Ann Coulter described the logo as “some sort of native Indian stone carving resembling a bloke with massive oedema of the legs” and the Games’ cartoon mascots as “various hybrids of legendary native indian [sic.] animals that could only ever exist only after a good toke-up of Canadian weed.” Continue reading here: Maisonneuve | Too Many Crazy Pills

Gitxaala Nation, located along BC’s northern coastline has recently published a new webpage for it’s Environmental Monitoring office.  Of note to University researchers is the protocol adopted by Gitxaala Council on September 9th, 2009 regulating research access to Gitxaala Territories.  As part of the Nations continuing program to ensure that rights and title are fully protected all researchers wishing to conduct research within Gitxaala Territory must submit their research for review and approval before beginning any work.

You can see the new webpage here.