SCHEDULE
You're Invited! Welcome Reception
Wednesday, May 15th, 2024 | 6 PM - 8 PM
Northwestern University Segal Visitor Center
1841 Sheridan Road, Evanston, IL 60208
Please join the Center for Native American and Indigenous Research for a welcome reception on the evening of Wednesday, May 15th, 2024. We will be gathering in Segal Visitor Center near our wiigwaasi-jiimaan (birchbark canoe) relative to network and connect with CNAIR community and early symposium arrivals. Heavy hors d'œuvre! Appetizers, desserts, and drinks! Free parking is available after 4 pm in the attached parking structures. Symposium schedule for Thursday and Friday and panels are below:
| Thursday, May 16th | Friday, May 17th |
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8:30am - Breakfast and Registration 9:00am - Welcome with Dr Megan Bang, CNAIR Director & Professor, SESP Land Acknowledgment Song/Drum 9:30am- 10:30am - KEYNOTE - TBD 10:30am-12pm - Panel I: Taking Care of Our Lands 100 Years Forward 12pm - LUNCH 1pm-1:30pm - Project Highlight: Tribal Constitutions, Beth Redbird (Professor, Sociology) 1:30-2:30 - CONCURRENT POSTERS SESSIONS Round Tables: Research Fellows, Faculty, Grads & Undergrads and Tribal College Students 2:30pm - Networking Break 3pm-4:30 - Panel II: Preserving Heritage and Memory - 100 Years into the Future 4:30pm - Closing Remarks |
8:30am Breakfast and registration 9am-9:30am Welcome and Summary Remarks, Jasmine Gurneau, Director, Native American Affairs, Office of Institutional Diversity and Inclusion 9:30-11am - Panel III: Practicing Health & Wellbeing 100 Years Forward 11am-12pm CONCURRENT POSTERS SESSIONS/Round Tables: Research Fellows, Faculty, Grads & Undergrads and Tribal College Students 12pm-1pm LUNCH 1pm-1:30pm Project Highlight 2 1:30pm-3pm Panel IV: Educational Self-Determination 100 Years Forward 3pm-3:30pm Networking Break 3:30-4:30pm - KEYNOTE - Duncan McCue, (Anishinaabe) television and radio journalist for the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation 4:30pm - Closing remarks |
Panels
Panel I: Taking Care of Our Lands 100 Years Forward
Thursday May 16th: 10:30 am -12pm
Native American communities are at the forefront of environmental issues whether food sovereignty, forestry management, climate change adaptation or land, water and wildlife management practices. Learn about programs, policies and practices that are affirming and restoring critical relationships now and looking towards the future.
Panel II: Preserving Heritage and Memory - 100 Years into the Future
Thursday May 16th 3pm - 4:30 pm
Cultural heritage professionals and memory workers bear a sacred responsibility to preserve, reclaim, and share Indigenous material culture and memory. This panel convenes museum and library/archive professionals to discuss the challenges they encounter, and the innovative strategies employed to safeguard material heritage. We will explore the evolving role of museums, libraries, and archives in Indigenous cultural heritage management, emphasizing the importance of indigenizing these institutions as platforms for generational equity and social justice. Panelists will share their experiences in community engagement and navigating new NAGPRA regulations, among other topics.
Panel III: Practicing Health & Wellbeing 100 Years Forward
Friday May 17th 9:30am-11am
Eliminating chronic health inequities is a critical goal for Native nations, their communities, researchers, health professionals, and traditional medicine folks across the country as they navigate the entanglements of a settler society. Native communities are revitalizing traditional cultural practices, challenging western norms of health, and imagining community centered practices to cultivate to Indigenous health and well-being.
Panel IV: Educational Self-Determination 100 Years Forward
Friday May 17th 1:30pm - 3pm
Ensuring successful educational experiences and preparation of educators and educational leaders, requires intellectual and ethical leadership and support. Many Tribal communities are increasingly taking up education self-determination and activating their sovereign potentials of their own educational systems. This panel will share examples of successes and imagine what the new developments are and should be for education.
(Last Updated: 04/11/2024)