Schedule
Native Feminisms
Centering American Indian and Indigenous Land and People
2021 AIIC Symposium
Please note that all times are in PST.
Friday, February 19
10:00AM-10:15AM
Welcome, Acknowledgment, Thank You
Margaret McMurtrey
10:15AM-11:30AM
Panel #1: Reflections on Mark My Words and Spiral to the Stars
UCSB AIIC Native Feminisms 2020-2021 Reading Group:
Discussants: Alesha Claveria, Sage Gerson, Kendall Lovely,
and Margaret McMurtrey
11:30AM-12:15PM
Lunch Break & Social Hour
12:15PM-12:40 PM
Welcome to Our Land: Chumash Family Singers
12:40PM-1:45PM
Acknowledgment: Gabe Reyes
Keynote #1: Laura Harjo
"(Re)membering Mvskoke communities and emergence geographies"
Introduction: Sunaina Kale
Acknowledgment: brooke smiley
1:45PM-3:00PM
Panel #2: Lands/Cosmologies: Ways of Knowing
Panelists:
Melinda Adams, "Matriarchal Ecological Knowledge: (Re)Mapping and Returning Our Stories to Our Lands"
Haliehana Stepetin, "Performing Unangax Subsistence Cosmologies: Native North Pacific Perspectives on Food Sovereignty and Environmental Justice"
Julie Bongers, "Mescalero Apache and Diné Girls Coming of Age Ceremonies"
Respondent: brooke smiley
Co-Moderators: Alexander Karvelas and Sage Gerson
3:00 PM
Closing Remarks
Saturday, February 20
10:00AM-10:15AM
Welcome, Acknowledgment, and Announcements
Michaela Allen
10:15AM-11:30AM
Panel #3: Decolonizing Education
Panelists:
Meghan Zarnetske, "Fractional Crystallization as a Metaphor for a Palimpsest of Colonization"
Mae Hey, "Shkakimakwe, Gikinoo’amaagewikwe/ Mother Earth, First Teacher"
Alesha Claveria, Title TBD
Respondent: Keri Bradford
Moderator: Maite Urcaregui
11:30PM-12:25PM
Lunch Break & Social Hour
Acknowledgment: Alexander Karvelas
12:30PM-1:40PM
Keynote #2: Mishuana Goeman
"Flooding Settler Enclosures, Asserting Indigenous Presence"
Introduction: Sunaina Kale
1:40PM-1:50PM
10 Minute Break
1:50PM-3:00PM
Panel #4: Chumash Cultural Representatives Panel: Chumash Youth Imaginings and Concerns
Moderator: Mia Lopez
Host: Margaret McMurtrey
3:00PM
Closing Remarks
Sunday, February 21
10:00AM-10:05AM
Welcome and Announcements: Margaret McMurtrey
Acknowledgment: Cameran Bahnsen
10:05AM-10:35AM
UCSB AIISA Undergraduate NEDx Talks
Presenters: Keli Lopez, Esmeralda Quintero-Cubillan, Michaela Allen, Cameran Bahnsen, Gabriel Reyes
Organizer & Moderator: Gabriel Reyes
10:35AM-11:45AM
Panel #5: UCSB AIISA Family
Discussants: Keri Bradford, Mia Lopez, and Margaret McMurtrey
and UCSB AIISA Alum
Moderator: Sedonna Goeman-Shulsky
11:45AM-12:40PM
Lunch Break & Social Hour
12:40PM-1:50PM
Acknowledgment: Sarah Rosalena Brady
Panel #6: Native Arts
Panelists:
Katelyn Stiles, "G̱unahéen [Different Water]: A Portrait Series of Tlingit & Haida Women in Diaspora"
Shawna Yazzie, "Stories of Survivance through T’łááschí’í [Red Bottom/Cheek Clan] Da’atłʼóh [Rug Weaving]"
Christina Thomas, "Numu Hoobea: Songs as Bridges between Tribal Communities and Higher Education"
Respondent: Sarah Rosalena Brady
Moderator: Sunaina Kale
1:50PM-2:00PM
10 Minute Break
2:00PM-3:00PM
Symposium-Parting Thoughts and Reflections
Discussants: Mishuana Goeman, brooke smiley, Sarah Rosalena Brady, with symposium participants
Moderator: Margaret McMurtrey
3:00PM
Closing
Related Events at UCSB's Multicultural Center (MCC):
Performance with Fawn Wood
Friday February 12, 2021 7:30PM PST
An Evening of Music with Fawn Wood
Plains Cree/Salish singer Fawn Wood comes from the tradition of Round Dance and Hand Drum music. She was introduced to spiritual songs by her parents and grandparents, singing along with them at Pow-Wows from an early age. Through her music, she shares a deep passion for her community and speaks to the strength of Indigenous women. Fawn won the Hand Drum contest at the Gathering of Nation’s Pow-Wow in 2006, the first woman to do so. Before her work as a solo artist, she and her husband Dallas Waskahat released albums as a duo. The two of them performed at the 11th Annual NAMMY awards and 2010 Aboriginal Peoples Choice Music Awards. Fawn’s latest album is entitled Kikāwiynaw, Plains Cree for “our mother”.
Understanding the Sacred: Listening to Indigenous People and Land
Tuesday February 16, 2021 6 pm PST
Mauna Kea Protectors, Uprooted and Rising, and Coastal Band of the Chumash Nation
Under the leadership of Chancellor Yang, the University of California has invested millions of dollars into the Thirty Meter Telescope (TMT) despite the protest of Native Hawaiians. Join the MCC in learning from the Mauna Kea Protectors, Uprooted and Rising, and Coastal Band of the Chumash Nation who will lead a discussion and Q&A on the University of California and it’s ongoing legacy of land acquisition. Engage with the knowledge shared by Native elders, grassroots leaders, and activists; and learn how you can support Indigenous sovereignty in our local communities and on-campus.
Black Lives, Indigenous Lives: From Mattering to Thriving
Thursday February 18, 2021 6 pm PST
Online Lecture with Andrew Jolivette
What can we learn from Black and Indigenous history, activism, and contemporary stewardship efforts in order to transform higher education, health, policing, and other Western institutions? This dialogue will examine and discuss major points of cultural and historic community convergence between Black and Indigenous Peoples with a focus on contemporary movements such as Black Lives Matter and Idle No More and the dismantling of racist statues, images, and mascots. Dr. Andrew Jolivétte will explore what these movements mean for enacting justice interventions and moving towards thrivance circuity, kinship building, self-determination, and abolition as transformational modes of joy production and ceremonial stewardship.