2:30PM

Registration & Refreshments 

3:30PM

Symposium Welcome and Land Acknowledgement

Moderator: Margaret McMurtrey (AIIC Academic Council and AIIC Research Focus Group Co-Convener;PhD program English, UCSB)

4:00PM

Indigenous Health and Care within Community Healthcare

Panelists from American Indian Health & Services (California Urban Indian Health Clinic), Santa Barbara:

Scott Black, CEO, AIHS

Dr. Ali Javanbakht, CMO, AIHS (UCSB alum)

Dr. Krista Armenta-Belen, CBHO, AIHS (UCSB alum)

Eliciana Jensen, Cultural Services Program Coordinator, AIHS (UCSB alum)

Moderator: Margaret McMurtrey, Board Member, AIHS (UCSB alum)

5:00PM

Keynote:

Sage LaPena

(Nomtipom Wintu)

Moderator: Vivian LaPena (Sociology major & Applied Psychology minor, UCSB undergraduate)

6:00PM

Reception

8:00AM

Registration & Breakfast 

9:00AM

Symposium Welcome and Land Acknowledgement

Moderators: Ixchell Roque & Mj Smith

9:15AM

UCSB Undergraduate Native Education Talks (N'Edx Talks)

Moderator: Mj Smith -Environmental Studies (major) and Anthropology (minor) Undergraduate, UCSB

Reese Raygoza

Vivian LaPena

Açucar Pinto

Owen Kohler

Ixchell Roque

10:30AM

15 minute break

10:45AM

A Community Conversation on Land Acknowledgements: "We can't heal without acknowledging the pain first"  

Moderator: Ixchell Roque

Conversants: Mia Lopez and Margaret McMurtrey

12:00PM

Lunch break

1:00PM

Keynote:

Gerald Clarke

(Cahuilla Band of Indians)

Moderator: Rae Yee (PhD candidate Biomolecular Science and Engineering, UCSB)

2:00PM

Embodied Practices Panel

Moderator: Kendall Lovely (PhD Candidate, History, UCSB)

Chimaway Lopez, "Sʼanaqipnás hi kiʼyaqliw hi na kiyuštap hiltomtoʼmóʼl: Chumash language practices and canoe epistemologies"

Miriam Hamburger, "Embodying Wounds, Embodied Healing: Theaters of Memory in Public Repatriation Ceremonies"

Jen Clay, Ben Jenkins, "The Power of Imagery and Stories Toward Healthy-Self Concepts"

3:30 PM

15 minute break 

3:45PM

Mauna Kea Updates

Featuring Pua Case 

Moderator: 

4:30PM

Healing Structures of Inequality Panel

Moderator: Maisnam Arnapal (Phd Candidate Feminist Studies, UCSB)

Mo’e Yaisikana, "Health Inequities and Challenges in Aging: Experience of Indigenous Taiwanese"

M. Kawēlau Wright, "Kanaka Maoli Identity (Re) Clamation Through Historical (Re)-Writing & (Re)-Righting: Hawaiʻi’s Racist Territorial Period"

Marlena Robbins, "Multigenerational Perspectives on Psilocybin Mushrooms Among Urban and Rural Native American Communities: A Comparative Study and Policy Analysis"

Mia Lopez and Megan Sheard, "Being Ourselves in Community: relationships in a world of research protocols at the Presidio de Santa Bárbara"

5:45PM

Community Dinner 

Join us for community dinner at the American Indian and Indigenous Studies Center (Bldg 434 Room 107)

8:00AM

Breakfast & Registration

9:00AM

Land Acknowledgement & Honoring Our Mothers

Moderator: Nākoa Farrant (PhD Candidate, Bren School of Environmental Science and Management, UCSB)

9:15AM

Eating Together: Food, Community, Medicine Panel

Moderator: Nākoa Farrant (PhD Candidate, Bren School of Environmental Science and Management, UCSB)

Monique Sonoquie, "Native Women Healing Retreat Cohorts"

Daniela Soleri, Violeta Jimenez, Karina Valera, "The Oaxacalifornia food system: An individual and community-created asset that can support health and wellbeing"

Taylor Mori & Roxanna Braganca, "Bridging Identity Through Cultural Foods"

10:45AM

15 minute break

11:00AM

Keynote:

Annette Cordero 

(Coastal Band of the Chumash Nation)

Moderator: Margaret McMurtrey

12:00PM

Lunch break

1:00PM

Health and Well Being: Challenges in/with Education Writ-Large

Moderator: Margaret McMurtrey

Panelist:

Annette Cordero (UCSB Alum)

Corey Cordero-Rabe (UCSB Alum)

Logan McMurtrey-Banks (UCSB Alum)

Margaret McMurtrey (UCSB Alum)

2:00PM

15 minute break

2:15PM

Repairing Land and Resource Relations Panel

Moderator: brooke smiley (Theater and Dance, UCSB)

Marissa Sisk, "Microgrids: Empowering Indigenous Communities to Combat Energy Poverty, Uphold Land Stewardship, and Redress Colonial Exploitation" (Marrisa Sisk will not be able to attend.)

Tristan Partridge, "Reclaiming the páramo, a source of life: Land rights and Indigenous struggle in highland Ecuador"

brooke smiley, "EARTH.SPEAKS"

3:30PM

Closing Remarks