Thursday, May 8 – Many Nations Longhouse
6:00 PM-7:00 PM – Welcome Reception
Welcome Reception & Salmon and Deer Dinner
7:00 PM-8:45 PM – Keynote Panel
Indigenous Critical Theory, Educational Institutions, and Political Movement
• Jeff Corntassel, University of Victoria
• Ines Hernandez-Avila, University of California at Davis
• Val Napoleon, University of Victoria
• Daniel Heath Justice, University of British Columbia
• Brian Klopotek, University of Oregon
Friday, May 9 – Erb Memorial Union
8:30 AM-10:00 AM – Concurrent Panels
Genealogies of State “Sovereignty” – Oak Room
• Matthew Kelly, “Whose Alternative? Reformulating the Question of Sovereignty and Political Action.”
• Surya Parekh, “The Cosmopolitics of Indigeneity”
• Scott Pratt, “The ‘Pluralism’ of Empire and Indigenous Sovereignty”
Decolonizing Pedagogies I: University-Tribal Collaboration – Gumwood Room
• Jennifer O’Neal, Kevin Hatfield, Simone Smith, Jan Raether, and Myra Johnson-Orange
Narrating Nations, Storying Sovereignties – Ballroom
• Andrew Uzendoski, “Speculative Sovereignties: Gerald Vizenor’s The Heirs of Columbus and the Quincentennial”
• Grace Dillon, “Star Metal and Star-Gazing Dust: Stephen Graham Jones’ Alternate Realities of Native Slipstream”
• Celeste Pedri-Spade, “Nametoo (Anishinabemowin for “there is evidence that he/she was/is present”)”
Contesting Absence, Creating Presence – Maple Room
• Linda Fuller, “Indigenous Resistances: Modes, Visions, and Accomplishments”
• James Daria, “Land, Territory, and Autonomy: The Creation and Suppression of the Autonomous Municipality of San Juan Copala, Oaxaca, Mexico.”
• Vince Rinehart, “Self-Constructing Tlingit Sovereignty”
10:15 AM-11:45 AM – Concurrent Panels
Contested Sovereignties – Oak Room
• Gordon Sayre, “The Murray Treaty and Wendat Sovereignty in Quebec: Tribal, Cultural, and Linguistic Nationalism”
• Heidi Kiiwetinepinesiik Stark, “Nenaboozhoo and the Smartberries: Rethinking Tribal Sovereignty”
• Alexander Keller Hirsch, “Stateless Separatism and Kanaka Maoli Politics”
Decolonizing Pedagogies II: Language and Revitalization – Gumwood Room
• Janne Underriner, Michelle Jacob, Zalmai Zahir, Joana Jansen, Jerome Viles, Pyuwa Bommelyn, and Carson Viles
Represencing Food and Water Through Visual Media – Alsea Room
• We Have Stories (short film)
• Rosemary Georgeson and Jessica Hallenbeck, “Connections Through Water: We Have Stories”
• Reclaiming Relationships (short film)
• Judy Bluehorse Skelton, “Food Sovereignty: Reclaiming the Urban Forest for Food, Medicine and Ceremony”
Gender, Jurisdiction, and Justice – Ballroom
• Qwo-Li Driskill, “Re-Storying Justice: Beyond Circle Courts”
• Angie Morrill, “Standing our Ground: Thunderbirds Are Go Against Sexual Violence at UO Circa 2004”
• Jyl M. Wheaton-Abraham, “Kootenai Justice and Alternative Sovereignty”
• Chris Finley, “Anarchist Alternatives to Settler Colonial Jurisdiction Issues in Sexual Violence Cases in Native America”
The (Inter)National Politics of Recognition – Maple Room
• Olivia Chilcote, “The Status of Non-Sovereignty: Native California and the Federal Acknowledgment Process”
• Linda Moon Stumpf, “The Dirty Dozen: The Past and Future – Policy Implications and Emerging Directions in Sovereignty”
• Lindsey Schneider, “No Man’s Land: Gendering the Politics of Place in Decolonization.”
11:45-12:45 – Lunch
12:45 PM-2:15 PM – Concurrent Panels
Indigenous Sovereignty in International Contexts – Alsea Room
• Fiona MacDonald, “Indigenous Rights as Human Rights: Opportunity or Constraint?”
• Janique Dubois, “Assessing the Gap between the Vision and the Reality of Treaty-Based First Nations Governance in the Canadian Province of Saskatchewan”
• Danielle Delaney, “Venue Shopping: The Next Frontier?”
Decolonizing Pedagogies III: Modes and Visions – Gumwood Room
• Nālei Kahakalau and Kū Kahakalau, “Kū-a-Kanaka – Standing as Hawaiians: Reclaiming Hawaiian Sovereignty and Native Heritage From the Inside Out.”
• Cornel Pewewardy, “Warrior Leadership: The Resurgence of Traditional Indigenous Warrior Societies”
Development and Responsibilities – Ballroom
• Dwight Newman, “Vision, Struggle, and the Role of Indigenous Economic Development”
• Dawn Hoogeveen, “Indigenous Resource Sovereignty: Placing the Tsilhqot’in Declaration at the Centre”
• Kyle Powys Whyte, “Climate Change and Alternative Sovereignties”
Decolonizing Pedagogies IV: Longhouses as Sovereign Spaces on Campus – Oak Room
• James Florendo, Gordon Bettles, David West, Luhui Whitebear
Visual Sovereignty: Speaking Back, Speaking Beyond – Maple Room
• Debra Merskin, Theresa May, and Jean O’Hara
2:30 PM-4:00 PM – Concurrent Panels
Constructing Sovereignty – Oak Room
• Matthew Dennis, “The Politics and Ecology of Colonialism in the Early American Republic: Development, Conservation, and Seneca Sovereignty”
• Kevin Bruyneel, “From the Dakota 38 to Project Geronimo: Settler Memory and the Production of American Statism”
• Johnny Mack, “Deliberation and the Making of Indigenous Law Within the Settler State”
Decolonizing Pedagogies V: Building Native Curricula – Maple Room
• Barbara Smith and Cindy Marchand-Cecil, Workshop: “Exploring Alternative Sovereignties through Native Case Studies.”
Traditional Knowledge, Revitalized Practice – Gumwood Room
• Michelle Jacob, “Yakama Rising: Indigenous Cultural Revitalization, Activism, and Healing”
• Jeane Riley, “Truth and Reconciliation as a Framework for Decolonizing Social Work Practice as an Indigenous Student”
• Kari Norgaard and Ron Reed, “Retaining Karuk Knowledge Sovereignty in the Face of Climate Change”
Indigenous Nationhood and Community Rights – Ballroom
• Jeff Corntassel, Paul Cienfuegos, Treothe Bullock, and Aurolyn Stwyer
4:15 PM-6:20 PM – Plenary Panel
Panel of Oregon Tribal Representatives – Ballroom
• Bob Garcia, Chairman – Confederated Tribes of the Coos, Lower Umpqua, and Siuslaw Tribes
• Don Gentry, Chairman – The Klamath Tribes
• Cheryle Kennedy, Council Member – Confederated Tribes of Grand Ronde
• Robert Kentta, Council Member – Confederated Tribes of Siletz Indians
• Justin Quaempts, Council Member – Confederated Tribes of the Umatilla Indian Reservation
• Michael Rondeau, Chief Executive Officer – Cow Creek Band of Umpqua Tribe of Indians
7:00 PM – Powwow
Grand Entry, Native American Student Union Mother’s Day Powwow – Matthew Knight Arena
Saturday, May 10 – Many Nations Longhouse
9:30 AM-12:00 PM – Roundtable Discussion
Roundtable Discussion about the formation of a Northwest Indigenous Studies Association
12:00 PM – Powwow
Adjourn to NASU Mother’s Day Powwow at Matthew Knight Arena