SCHEDULE
Weather delay! We hope to start at 10:15
SCHEDULE
Weather delay! We hope to start at 10:15
10:00 West Lecture Hall FPH
A conversation with Cheryll Toney Holley, Sonksq of the Hassanamisco Nipmuc Band and Justin Beatty (Ojibwe/Saponi/African-American), cultural educator, artist, powwow singer and emcee
Zoom link for the 10AM session https://hampshire.zoom.us/j/99705873968
12:00
Lunch Break (on your own)
12:00 - 4:00 Lobby inside FPH
Native Crossroads Festival Vendors and Activities
1:00 - 3:00
Concurrent Workshops (scroll down for descriptions)
Legal, Societal and Cultural Understanding 101 with Justin Beatty (Ojibwe/Saponi/African-American), cultural educator, artist, powwow singer and emcee 108 FPH
Decolonizing Pedagogy with Dr. Noah Romero (Filipinx), Assistant Professor of Native American and Indigenous Studies, Hampshire College Faculty/Staff Lounge, FPH
Affinity Group Gathering for Indigenous Students with Finn Farrell 107 FPH
3:30 - 5:00
Stickball game led by Professor Robert Caldwell in the RCC
5:30 Main Lecture Hall FPH (buffet dinner in FPH lobby afterward)
"Braiding Knowledges to Transform Research: Climate Change, Cultural Places, and Food Sovereignty research at the Center for Braiding Indigenous Knowledges and Science"
Keynote with Dr. Sonya Atalay (Anishinaabe-Ojibwe), Director, Center for Braiding Indigenous Knowledges and Science (CBIKS), and Provost Professor, Anthropology Department, UMass - Amherst
Zoom link for the 5:30 session https://hampshire.zoom.us/j/93873790549
1:00-4:00 Student Center - classroom in the Kern building
"Call to Action: Embodying Decolonization and Reciprocity" with Jean-Luc Pierite (Tunica-Biloxi Tribe of Louisiana), MLK Visiting Scholar at MIT Department of Urban Studies and Planning, and President of North American Indian Center of Boston. Space is limited to 30 participants. Register here.
Keynote & Workshop Descriptions:
"Braiding Knowledges to Transform Research: Climate Change, Cultural Places, and Food Sovereignty research at the Center for Braiding Indigenous Knowledges and Science" with Dr. Sonya Atalay
How do we bring Indigenous and “Western” mainstream science into right relationship with one another to ensure mutual thriving of all our relations? At a time of accelerating environmental change and complex, overlapping challenges, we need a plurality of perspectives to innovate solutions. This talk focuses on work being carried out by a team of international, interdisciplinary, predominantly Indigenous scientists from the US, Canada, Australia, and Aotearoa/New Zealand as part of the new Center for Braiding Indigenous Knowledges and Science (CBIKS). CBIKS’ team includes archaeologists, climate, environmental, and water scientists; and scholars with expertise in Indigenous knowledge systems, foodways, science ethics; Indigenous education; museums and heritage. I’ll share our journey to explore ethical practices and protocols of braiding knowledges, the seeds for building new research worlds. The talk highlights efforts to bring braiding methodologies into mainstream scientific practice through a transdisciplinary approach that reflects Indigenous understandings of place in which the urgent and interconnected areas of climate change, cultural places, and food sovereignty and security are the focus.
"Decolonizing Pedagogy" with Noah Romero
This workshop offers faculty and staff an introduction to decolonizing pedagogy- approaches to teaching and learning that promote reciprocity, balance, healing, sustainability, and the inherent sovereignty of Indigenous peoples. Founded on pedagogical work by Indigenous, Black, queer, feminist, and person-of-color scholars and practitioners, this workshop offers instructional leaders practical and theoretical strategies for actualizing reparative educational processes. Register here
"Legal, Societal and Cultural Understanding 101" with Justin Beatty
Justin Beatty (Ojibwe/Saponi/African-American) is a cultural educator, artist, powwow singer, and powwow emcee. With this presentation/workshop he will address common misconceptions the general public often has about areas affecting Native American people such as: “recognition”, legal status, cultural practices, treaties, activism, land acknowledgments, TV/movies/media, and more. Some subjects will be discussed based on previously submitted questions but questions from those in attendance are welcome and encouraged.
"Call to Action: Embodying Decolonization and Reciprocity" with Jean-Luc Pierite
This workshop is a call to action for students and other members of the Hampshire College community. Taking the concepts of Decolonization and Reciprocity (D&R) and articulating them through creative expression, participants will be guided through a design jam that will seek to activate the campus to generate an impromptu multimedia exhibition. Starting with an introspective reflection, participants will draw connections with Land and Indigenous Peoples. The purpose of this workshop is to raise consciousness on how D&R shows up across all educational programs and learning collaboratives. Space is limited to 30 participants. Register here.