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VI.
The Humanities and Contemporary Issues
A.
Ethics, Law and Democracy
American
Indian Values For the 21st Century
By Wynema Morris
This presentation
provides an in-depth analysis of the world view of American Indian people, along
with a comparison of both the American Indian values system and that of the
Euro-American. This presentation includes the values of spirituality and
religion, time, nature, sharing and acquisition, work, cooperation and
competition, teaching and learning, acceptance of change, religion, aging, power
and recognition and law.
Four Reasons
Our Taxes Go Up
By State Sen. Lowen Kruse
Focusing on Nebraska, Lowen Kruse investigates
four reasons that taxes go up. He looks at drug use, education, Medicaid
and prisons.
Human
Rights and Indian Rights: Las Casas to Standing Bear
By Robert Haller
Bartolome de las
Casas appears over the east door of the Nebraska State Capitol in a panel
showing him pleading before the King and Queen of Castile for recognition of the
dignity of the Native American peoples. Judge Dundy, like Las Casas, based the
claim for the humanity of Indians on the integrity of the alien culture and on
the emotional sympathy evoked by the victimized peoples in the famous trial of
Crook vs. Standing Bear (1879). This illustrated talk finds parallels in
the career of Las Casas with the events leading up to the trial of Standing
Bear. It discusses the interrelation of our ideas of human rights, religious
belief, legal entitlement, international law, and cultural integrity.
The Nebraska
Supreme Court
By
James W. Hewitt
This program covers the history of the Nebraska Supreme
Court from 1938 to the present. Discussion includes important cases, judges who
have served, and the directions in which the court is likely to move in the next
few years. The main emphasis is on judges and their idiosyncrasies.
Resurrection
of the Pre-Emptive Strike Doctrine in International Law
By Michael J. Kelly
This program looks at the United States current
broad interpretation of the Pre-Emptive Strike Doctrine. The program
also investigates how the doctrine has been interpreted and challenged
in the past and how the U.N. responded.
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