Experimental and Clinical Pharmacology Department's DEI Taskforce Special Event
The Doctrine of Recovery
Documentary Film Screening and Special Panel Discussion
Tuesday October 24, 2023
Event Description
The Experimental and Clinical Pharmacology department’s Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion Taskforce (ECP DEI Taskforce) welcomes everyone to attend our film screening and special panel discussion event for the documentary “The Doctrine of Recovery” on Tuesday October 24th, 2023.
Locations
Twin Cities Campus: McNamara Alumni Center Johnson Great Room
Duluth Campus: Life Sciences building Room 160
Details
The documentary film screening will take place at both Twin Cities and Duluth locations from 10:45am – 12:00pm on Tuesday October 24th. Lunch options will be provided at both campuses following the film.
The panel discussion event, featuring special guests Casey Camp-Horinek and Renee Gurneau, will start at 12:30pm in the Johnson Great Room and will be live-streamed to participants in Duluth.
Individuals that are unable to attend the live film screening but still want to participate in the panel discussion will be able to stream the film following completion of the registration form through a provided link to the film and access code. Individuals that cannot attend the panel discussion event in person at either the Twin Cities or Duluth locations will be provided a link for the live streaming event.
Honored Guest Speakers
Casey Camp-Horinek, an environmental ambassador, elder and hereditary drumkeeper of the Ponca Tribe of Oklahoma, is a longtime activist, environmentalist, actress, and author who has been at the forefront of grassroots community efforts to educate and empower both Native and non-Native people on environmental and civil rights issues, leading Movement Rights Ponca and Indigenous Rights of Nature campaigns. She was instrumental in the drafting and adoption of the first ever International Indigenous Women’s Treaty protecting the Rights of Nature. She travels the globe bringing awareness and regularly speaking on environment and native rights at a multitude of venues and forums, including the United Nations Permanent Forum on Indigenous Issues. She has received numerous awards such as an American Indian Heritage Award and Best Actress from both the Breckinridge Film Festival and American Indian Film Festival.
Renee Gurneau is an enrolled member of the Red Lake Band of Chippewa Indians and former Kellogg Fellow in the Kellogg National Leadership Program. As an educator and former Tribal College President, she is a firm believer that Native people have the right and responsibility to direct their own empowered educational experience. She has expertise in program development, and in conducting evaluations and analysis from an Anishinaabe cultural perspective. She has designed, directed, implemented and evaluated many community-based programs both on reservations and in urban areas, including chemical dependency programs, youth programs, education, environmental programs, culture-based wellness initiatives, restorative justice, Indigenous Conflict Resolution, and Native family therapy programs. She is coauthor, with Lea Foushee, of Sacred Water: Water for Life, a seminal work on Anishinaabe relationship to water.
About the documentary "The Doctrine of Recovery"
Since 1493, the so-called ‘Doctrine of Discovery’ has justified the dispossession and decimation of the Indigenous inhabitants of North America and brought us to our present environmental breaking point. Through the voices of Indigenous women, the film presents a Doctrine of Recovery to rebalance our relationship with the Earth, restore the sacred feminine, and ensure our own species’ survival.
Casey Camp-Horinek
Crystle Lightning
Juliet Langley Hayes
Three generations of Tribal women - Casey Camp-Horinek, Crystle Lightning, and Juliet Langley Hayes - speak what has gone unspoken, and unapologetically expose the influence of founding patriarchs and white supremacy in places most never thought to look, and in doing so demonstrate the ongoing and devastating formula patterned by the Doctrine of Discovery.
“The film is a powerful reminder of how the Doctrine of Discovery is at the very foundation of systemic and institutionalized racism that our people continue to be marginalized by, and how the roots of so many tragic issues impacting First Nations’ communities today, like the Murdered and Missing crisis, began with the imposition of the Inter Caetera papal bull of May 4, 1493.”
Kukpi 7 Judy Wilson
Skat’sin te Secwepemc Neskonlith/
Executive, Union of British Columbia Indian Chiefs
Acknowledgements
& Thank You
Land Acknowledgement
We collectively acknowledge that the University of Minnesota Twin Cities is built within the traditional homelands of the Dakota people. Minnesota comes from the Dakota name for this region, Mni Sóta Maḳoce, which loosely translates to the land where the waters reflect the skies.
We collectively acknowledge that the University of Minnesota Duluth is located on the traditional, ancestral, and contemporary lands of Indigenous people. The University's Duluth campus resides on land that was cared for and called home by the Ojibwe people, before them the Dakota and Northern Cheyenne people, and other Native peoples from time immemorial. Ceded by the Ojibwe in an 1854 treaty, this land holds great historical, spiritual, and personal significance for its original stewards, the Native nations and peoples of this region.
We recognize and continually support and advocate for the sovereignty of the Native nations in these territories and beyond. By offering this land acknowledgment, we affirm tribal sovereignty and will work to hold the University of Minnesota accountable to American Indian peoples and nations. It is important to acknowledge the peoples on whose land we live, learn, and work as we seek to improve and strengthen our relations with our tribal nations. We also acknowledge that words are not enough. We must ensure that our institution provides support, resources, and programs that increase access to all aspects of higher education for our American Indian students, staff, faculty, and community members.
Resources
University of Minnesota Native American Promise Tuition program
The Doctrine of Recovery
Thank you to everyone involved in the making of this documentary, including Brisind (Director, Screenwriter), Leslee Goodman (Producer), Georgina Lightning (Producer), Crystle Lightning (Cast), Casey Camp-Horinek (Cast), Juliet Hayes (Cast), and Anthony Stengel (Cinematographer).
Event Organizers
Thank you to the College of Pharmacy's Office for Diversity, Equity and Inclusion, and the Experimental and Clinical Pharmacology Department for financial and administrative support for making this event come to fruition.
Thank you to Mark Robbins for introducing the ECP DEI Taskforce to "The Doctrine of Recovery"
Thank you to Leslee Goodman (Producer, "The Doctrine of Recovery") for your guidance and work with the DEI Taskforce
Thank you Katherine Goffin for arranging and organizing travel, accommodations, and venue reservation at the UMN Twin Cities
Thank you Dr. Meg Little for organizing and leading the film screening and panel discussion in Duluth
and thank you to the ECP DEI Taskforce members and department volunteers for all of your behind the scenes efforts