Chair: Nicolas Rosenthal, Loyola Marymount University
Tinseltown Tyee: Nipo Strongheart and the Making of Braveheart
Andrew Fisher, College of William & Mary
Publicity, Persona, and Power: Negotiating the Native American Experience in Classical Hollywood
Jacob Floyd, Oklahoma State University
Chair: Damien Lee, Indigenous Studies, University of Saskatchewan
‘A name hung about the neck’: The clash between mohawk Law, the Indian Act, and tradition in Kahnawa:ke
Kahente Horn-Miller, Carleton University
Returning to Our Gardens and Tending to Our Lineages: Indigenous Family Responsibilities in an Age of ‘Re/Conciliation’
Laura Hall, Laurentian University
Citizenship as Renewal: Locating Anishinaabe Laws of Belonging through Adoption Stories
Damien Lee, University of Saskatchewan
Adoption, the Migration of Treaty Relations, and the Limits of Recognition
Amar Bhatia, Osgoode Hall Law School
Chair: Holly Ann McKenzie, University of British Columbia
Full spectrum data: Contributing to a picture of Indigenous maternal wellness in Toronto
Danette Jubinville, Simon Fraser University
Indigenous women asserting reproductive justice in continuing colonial violence: Strategies of refusal and negotiation
Holly Ann McKenzie, University of British Columbia
Jannica Hoskins, Her4Directions
Jillian Arkles Schwandt, Sexual Health Centre Saskatoon
We were doulas before there were doulas: The ekw’i7tl collective of Vancouver
Sophie Bender Johnston, ekw’i7tl Indigenous doula collective
Keisha Charnley, ekw’i7tl Indigenous doula collective
Body as Land - Land as Body: Embodied Governance through Resurgent Birth-Work
Erynne Gilpin, University of Victoria
Chair: Clementine Bordeaux, University of California, Los Angeles
Indigenous Foodways of Southern California: From Dispossession to Revitalization
David Streamer, University of California, Los Angeles
Healing Historical Trauma Through Indigenous Youth Leadership
Shalene Joseph, University of California, Los Angeles
The Commodification of Matai titles and its effects on the Fa’a Samoa
Lydia M Faitalia, University of California, Los Angeles
Reclaiming California Indian Identity by Claiming Mission School History: Saint Boniface Indian Industrial School. 1890 to 1935
Kelly Leah Stewart, University of California, Los Angeles
Chair: Maggie Walter, University of Tasmania
Chair: Terry Dunbar, University of Adelaide
Life Events, Resilience and Educational Outcomes
Maggie Walter, University of Tasmania
Successful Indigenous Student Transition to Secondary Education
Jacob Prehn, University of Tasmania
Huw Peacock, University of Tasmania
The disconnect between parent and teacher perceptions outcomes
Clair Anderson, University of Tasmania
Communities, Neighborhoods and Educational Outcomes
Wendy Aitken, University of Tasmania
Chair: Teresa McCarty, University of California, Los Angeles
Motherwork as Refusal
Christine Vega, University of California, Los Angeles
Intergenerational Caring as Refusal
Nora Cisneros, University of California, Los Angeles
Community Care as Refusal: Native Students in Higher Education
Theresa Stewart-Ambo, University of California, Los Angeles
I ulu no ka lala i ke kumu: Without our ancestors, we would not be here
Kapua Chandler, University of California, Los Angeles
Frontlines of Refusal: Indigenous Women, Water Protectors and Intergenerational Healing
Temryss Maclean Lane, University of California, Los Angeles
Chair: Eloisa Tamez, University of Texas, RIO Grande Valley
Comment: Margo Tamez, UBC Okanagan
Remembering Who We have Always Been: Intergenerational Pedagogies of Collective Memory
Marissa Munoz, University of British Columbia
Ripping the Seams of Colonization
Amberley John, University of British Columbia Okanagan
Modeling Academic Excellence Through Graduate Research Assistant Mentoring
Dion Kaszas, University of British Columbia Okanagan
Indigenous Women at the heart of Sovereignty Movements
Kelly Panchyshyn, University of British Columbia Okanagan
Chair: Kelly Skinner, The University of Waterloo
First Foods as Indigenous Food Sovereignty: Country Food and Breastfeeding Practices in a Manitoban First Nations Community
Jaime Cidro, The University of Winnipeg
Food Skills as an Equalizer for Indigenous Youth
Tabitha Martens, The University of Manitoba
Socio-Ecological and Historical Impacts on Traditional Food Systems in Southwestern Ontario: The Experiences of Elders
Hannah Tait Neufeld, The University of Guelph
Chair: Kim Tallbear, University of Alberta
Reclaiming Living Collections: Ontology and Repatriation in Rapa Nui
Jacinta Arthur, Pontificia Universidad Catolica de Chile
Singing with Plants: Performing Two Muskogee-Creek Dances
Ryan Koons, University of California, Los Angeles
Embodied Relation: Wixarica and Corn
Cyndy Garcia-Weyandt, University of California, Los Angeles
“Va’am Itom Hiapsi:” Water is Life
Thalia Gomez, University of California at Los Angeles
Chair: Leah Jane Grantham, University of British Columbia
Diseased, Disabled, Dead, Drunk or Drumming: Indigenous People, Medicalization, and the Modern Healthful Subject
Leah Jane Grantham, University of British Columbia
Meditations on Reserve Life, Biosecurity and the Taste of Non-Sovereignty
Billy-Ray Belcourt, University of Oxford
Where’s My Fat Indigenous Heroine? Indigenous Bodies, Fatness and Paradigms of Desire and Normative Health
Anna Dawn Sayers, University of Victoria
“The Possessive Investment” in Settler Colonialism
Chris Finley, University of Southern California
How ICWA and Self-Determination have Erased White Supremacy and Settler Colonism in Tribal Child Welfare Policies
Kit Meyers, University of California Merced
Alien Ally As Settler Contract
Lee Ann Wang, University of California Berkeley School of Law
Decolonial Refusal and Abolitionist Misandry: Native and Black Feminist Critiques of the Human
Tiffany King, Georgia State University
Chair: John Lutz, University of Victoria
Comment: Robin Wright, University of Florida
“’My mom tends to tell it the Catholic way. I’d tell it my way, the right way:’ Local Histories of the 1885 Resistance”
Amanda Fehr, University of Saskatchewan
“Stranger in a Strange Land”: Religious Hybridity in George Copway’s Anishinaabe Methodist Faith”
John Bird, University of Saskatchewan
Undisciplined Literacy: The Colonial Strategy of Mimicry and Nineteenth-Century Salish Prophetic Writings
Keith Carlson, University of Saskatchewan
Chair: Sam McKegney, Queen’s University
Embodying Resurgence: How Indigenous Erotica Creates Narratives of Liberation
Geraldine King, Queen’s University
An Erotics of Responsibility: Reclaiming Gender in Trans & Two Spirit Narratives
Lisa Tatonetti, Kansas State University
Decolonizing the Hockey Novel: The Ambivalent Resistance of Richard Wagamese in Indian Horse
Trevor J. Phillips, University of Manitoba
Chair: Phillip J. Deloria, University of Michigan
Comment: Jace Weaver, University of Georgia
Protective Occupation, Emergent Networks, Rituals of Solidarity: Comparing Alta (Sapmi), Mauna Kea (Hawaii) and Standing Rock
Gregory Johnson, University of Colorado Boulder
Siv Ellen Kraft, University of the Arctic
Historical Consciousness and Restorative Justice in Treaty Claims Histories in Aotearoa New Zealand
Miranda Johnson, University of Sydney
Unstable Relations: The Pasts and Presents of ‘Green-Black’ Encounters in Australia
Timothy Neale, Deakin University
Chair: Lavonna Lea Lovern, Valdosta State University
Re-envisioning disability dialogue using Indigenous paradigms of difference.
Lavonna Lea Lovern, Valdosta State University
Indigeneity in everyday life among Samis with disabilities in Sweden
Margaretha Uttjek, Umea University
The meaning of music for First Nations children with Autism Spectrum Disorder in British Columbia, Canada
Anne Lindblom, Karlstad University, University of Eastern Finland
“You Can’t Confuse Indian Patriotism with American Pie”: Lakota and Dakota Experiences During the Vietnam War
John Little, University of Minnesota
Chair: Chris Andersen, University of Alberta
Saginaw Anishinaabeg Journalism and Native Nation Building
Vanessa Cisneros, University of California, Los Angeles
“The Celebrated Black Hawk was in Detroit”: Or How Indigenous Masculinity Shaped Modern Detroit
Kyle T. Mays, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill
Chief Lawyers and the mobilization and mediation of colonial knowledge and power in Nez Perce life
Anne Keary, Independent Scholar
Towards an Indigenous Conquest Discourse: Nahua Annals of the Central Valley of Mexico
Tania Garcia-Pina, The University of Texas at Austin
Settler Colonialism, Anti-Trafficking, and Discourses of Domestication: Resistance Among Indigenous Women
Julie Kaye, University of Saskatchewan
Mothering the Nation: Representations of Motherhood in Resources about Cree Law
Emily Snyder, University of Saskatchewan
Contested Truths: Representations of Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women in the Era of 'Truth and Reconciliation'
Danielle Bird, University of Saskatchewan
Chair: Laura Schaefli, Queen’s University
Measuring Ignorance: A Contribution to Unsettling Provincial and Post-Secondary Education in Canada
Laura Schaefli, Queen’s University
Anne Godlewska, Queen’s University
Jonathan Rose, Queen’s University
“Living Bridges”: Craig Santos Perez’s Poetics as an Experiment in Mobile, Flexible Community”
Bonnie Etherington, Northwestern University
A Recipe for learning: The curricular ingredients of Canadian Indigenous Feasting practices
Amber J White, UWO
Alternative Visions from the Teachers’ Movement in Michoacan: P’urhepecha Teachers against Neoliberal Education Agenda
Maria G Gutierrez De Jesus, University of California, Davis
Chair: Christine DeLisle, University of Minnesota
Settling Wayward Hawaiian Girls: Race, Gender and Rehabilitation in Territorial Hawaiʻi
Maile Arvin, University of California Riverside
“We now propose to make the best of the situation” Native Hawaiian Resilience Under Empire 1900-1910
Kealani Cook, University of Hawaiʻi - West Oʻahu
“Like a Disembodied Shade” Imperial Subjectivity in American Samoa
Kristina Sailiata, Center for Art and Thought
“STATEHOOD SUCKS”: The present Consequences of Settler Futures
Dean Saranillio, New York University
Chair: Bethany Hughes, Northwestern University
Performing Removal: Conflicting Claims of Native Identity in the Construction and Enforcement of the Indian Removal Act,
Bethany Hughes, Northwestern University
The Poetic Record Against Removal
Alanna Hickey, Northwestern University
The Law, Political Formula, and Blackness and Indianness in Democracy in America
Chad Infante, Northwestern University
Chair: Noenoe K Silva, Indigenous Politics, University of Hawai’i Manoa
Kūlia i ka Pono: Seeking Pono in Mele Lāhui 1893-1898
Leilani Basham, University of Hawai’i - West Oʻahu
Loea Mele: A Brief Study of 20th Century Kanaka Maoli Discussions of Mele
Kahikina de Silva, University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa
Mary Kawena Pukui: Bridging Kanaka Knowledge
Noenoe K Silva, Indigenous Politics, University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa
KAMAPUAʻA: Hawaiʻi’s pig-man demi-god as exemplar of right behavior? Or Agency in late 19th Century Hawaiian Literature
Kiope Raymond, University of Hawaii Maui College
Chair: Scott Morgensen, Queen’s University
“Reading Sun Chief: The Autobiography of a Hopi Indian as a Two-Spirit/Queer Native Narrative”
Alicia Cox, University of California, Irvine
Administrative Aloha and Native Hawaiian Queerness
Reid Y Uratani, University of Minnesota
Fancydancing as Radical Adaption: Sherman Alexie’s Collection of Stories and Poems Becomes a Queer Native Film
Michael M. Means, VCU
The Mayas Come out of the Closet: The Poetics of Homosexuality in Manuel Tzoc's Gay(o))
Emilio del Valle-Escalante, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill
Chair: Bruce Duthu, Dartmouth College
Pioneering Propaganda How did the arts in Australia conspire to paint the First People out of the national picture?
Melissa Razuki, RMIT University, Melbourne, Australia
Lighting a Cigarette, Loading a Gun: Settler Anxieties and the Criminalization of Native Tobacco in Canada
Devin Clancy, York University
Nuclear Development in a Settler Colonial State - Political Geography of the Hanford Site
Noriko Ishiyama, Meiji University
Jun Kamata, Asia University
For the Good of the Whole: Power and Vaccination in the 19th century Western Great Lakes
Margaret Flood, University of Minnesota
Chair: Winona Wheeler, University of Saskatchewan
Orange Shirt Day: Reconciliation or Settler Slacktivism?
Danielle Lorenz, University of Alberta
Public Service TV as challenger of Swedish settler colonialism? Sámi representations in “Midnight Sun/Idjabeaivváš"
Karin Eriksson, University of Washington, Seattle
Cultural Continuity in the Absence of Canada’s Indian Act: The Newfoundland Mi’Kmaq Experiment
Maura C Hanrahan, University of Lethbridge
Indigenous Activism, Community Sustainability, and the Constraints of Canzus Settler-Colonial Nationhood
Paul Mckenzie-Jones, Montana State University-Northern
Chair: Shannon Speed, UCLA
Stateness as land-grab: The political history of Maya dispossession
Manuela Picq, Amherst College
Housing the Poor: Indigeneity and Dispossession in Cancun, Mexico
Bianet Castellanos, University of Minnesota
Indigenous Latino Migrants in the U.S.: Transnational Settler Colonial Formations and Global Capital
Korinta Maldonado, University of Illinois Urbana Champaign
Lourdes Gutierrez Najera, Drake University
Chair: Vince Diaz, University of Minnesota
“Our Admirable Esquimaux Protégé” : the Meeting of Erasmus Kallihirus, Inughuit Missionary, in the “Red Atlantic”
Dylan Burrows, University of British Columbia
Black Studies vs. Native Studies?: Black Hawaiians of the Black Pacific
Nitasha Sharma, Northwestern University
Culture, Sovereignty and the Land: A Tale of Two Samoas
Moana J Vercoe, TURN Research
Legendary Tales Across the Pacific: Trans-INdigenous Approaches to Myths and Legends
Benjamin MIller, University of Sydney
Jonathan Kay Kamakawiwoʻole Osorio, University of Hawaiʻi at Manoa
Katerina Teaiwa, Australia National University
Kali Fermantez, Brigham Young University-Hawaiʻi
April Henderson, Victoria University Wellington
Pala Molisa, Victoria University Wellington
Emalani Case, University of Hawaiʻi-West Oahu
Courtney-Savali Andrews, Victoria University Wellington
Chair: Gordon Christie, University of British Columbia
Comment: Caleb Behn, Eh-Cho Dene Territory in Treaty No.8
Dine Decolonization and the Biopolitics of Water
Melanie Yazzie, University of California - Los Angeles
The Gendered Politics of our Water Relations
Michelle Daigle, University of British Columbia
Fish Farms and Freeways: Dispossession from water, Dispossession from Land
Rosemary Georgeson, Independent Artist
Jessica Hallenbeck, University of British Columbia
Chair: Christopher Clements, Harvard University
From Akwesasne to Standing Rock: Historical Reflections on the Saint Lawrence Seaway and Dakota Access Pipeline
Christopher Clements, Harvard University
The Haudenosaunee Student Alliance: How to Stand with Standing Rock
Chelsea Sunday, SUNY Potsdam
Hugh Burnam, Syracuse University
Indigenous Journalists Covering the Dakota Access Pipeline in Standing Rock Among a Dominantly Non-Indigenous Society
Jourdan C Bennett-Begaye, Syracuse University
A systems Ecology Analysis of the Dakota Access Pipeline
Adam Fix, SUNY College
Chair: Bonita Beatty, University of Saskatchewan
Northern Indigenous Kehtehayak (elderly) Caregiving
Bonita Beatty, University of Saskatchewan
Prohibition and Policy: Indigenous Senior Citizens and Food Security in Edmonton, Alberta
Merissa Daborn, University of Alberta
Grandfather to Grandson: The Complex Identities of Isaac and Bertrand Walker
Michael Leonard Cox, San Diego Mesa College
Chair: Bruce Duthu, Dartmouth College
Indigenous Rights Implementation
Sheryl Lightfoot, University of British Columbia
Implementing FPIC through Negotiated Agreements? Lessons from the Canadian Experience
Martin Papillon, Universite de Montreal; Thierry Rodon, Universite Laval
Use and Application of the UN Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples by Domestic Courts in Latin America
Alexandra Tomaselli, Institute for Minority Rights of the European Academy Bolzano/Bozen
Self-Governance in Bolivia’s First Indigenous Autonomy: Charagua
Nancy Postero, University of California San Diego
Jason Tockman, University of Washington
Chair: Lourdes Alberto, University of Utah
Mobile Archives of Indigeneity: Building La Comunidad Ixim through Youth Organizing in the Maya Diaspora
Floridalma Boj Lopez, University of Southern California
Indigenous Landscapes: Translocal Zapotec Networks in Nineteenth-Century Oaxaca
Luis Sanchez-Lopez, University of California, San Diego
Zapotec Diasporas Across Generations: (Re)claiming Identity, Creating Sense of Belonging
Brenda Nicolas, University of California, Los Angeles
Geographies of Indigeneity: Spaces, Circuits and Transborder Indigenous Women’s Organizing
Maylei Blackwell, University of California, Los Angeles
Chair: Lisa Brooks, Amherst College
Networks of Intellectual Exchange: Imagining Digital Native Space
Lisa Brooks, Amherst College
The Books Are Coming Home: Integrating Relationality with Interface Designin the Digitization of Native American Literature
Marisa E. Duarte, Arizona State University
Decolonizing Digital Space: Pedagogical Solutions to Settler-Colonial Frameworks
Kiara Vigil, Amherst College
Chair: Eve Tuck, University of Toronto
Rematriation is Different than Repatriation
Jeneen Frei Njootli, ReMatriate Collective
Rematriating Indigenous Life and Land
Eve Tuck, University of Toronto
A Glossary of Insistence
Tanya Lukin Linklater, Queen’s University
Rematriative Re-mappings: Consent as Reproductive Justice
Karyn Recollet, University of Toronto
Chair: Clifford Gordon Atleo, Simon Fraser University
When the Temperature Changes, the Pipelines Leak, the World Collapses & All The Man Trees Are Dead: Sugaring into Futurities
Christine Sy, University of Victoria
I will carry my Canoe when the locks dry up: The persistence of Michi Saagig Economies
Madeline Whetung, University of Toronto
Applying Articulation Theory and Feminist Critical Discourse Analysis to Private Property and First Nation Economic Development
Brock Roe, University of Saskatchewan
Navigating Capitalism and the Resurgence of Traditional Nuu-chah-nulth Governance\
Clifford Gordon Atleo, Simon Fraser University
Chair: Jessica Cattelino, University of California
(Un)conquered and (Un)assailable: Towards Relational Vulnerability in Indigenous Resistance
Jodi A. Byrd, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign
Notes on “Exorcising America” and the Relations of Vulnerability
Alyosha Goldstein, University of New Mexico
Landed
Joanne Barker, San Francisco State University
“Let us be vulnerable to their civility, and to each other’s sorrow and joyfulness”
Manu Vimalassery, Barnard College
Chair: Crystal Fraser, University of Alberta
Comment: Deanna Reder, Simon Fraser University
Confronting The Secret Path and Settler Stories about Residential Schools and Reconciliation
Sean Carleton, Mount Royal University
Reflections from “The Road to Reconciliation: A Panel Discussion about the The Secret Path” Tasha Hubbard, University of Saskatchewan.
Celebrations of Creation over Performances of Trauma: Leanne Betasamosake Simpson’s f(l)ight and Gord Downie’s The Secret Path
Angela Semple, Trent University
Chair: Magda Smolewski, Ontario Federation of Indigenous Friendship Centres
Using trauma-informed principles in community-driven research and urban Indigenous praxis
Sylvia Maracle, Ontario Federation of Indigenous Friendship Centres
Trauma-Informed Schools research project- a study on implementing trauma-informed approaches in schools
Jade Huguenin, Ontario Federation of Indigenous Friendship Centres
Contemporary youth messaging: how youth are implementing trauma-informed approaches in schools
Dakota Heon, Nipissing University
The role of academic institutions in Truth and Reconciliation- an examination of trauma-informed strategies in Universities
Cynthia Wesley-Esquimaux, Lakehead University
From Ancient Time Keepers to Present-Day Scholars: Indigenous Scholars in Latin America
Arturo Arias, University of California, Merced
Visibilizar/Visualizar: Poetic Knowledge and the Radical Imagination in Contemporary Abya Yala
Hannah Burdette, California State University, Chico
Kab’awil: An Episteme of remembrance
Gloria Chacon, University of California San Diego
Hablando del ch’ulel: Speaking of Spirit in Contemporary Mayan Poetry of Chiapas
Ines Hernandez-Avila, University of California Davis
Chair: Jennifer Guiliano, Indiana University - Purdue University Indianapolis
The Technical and Ethical Limits of Open Access: How Native American and Indigenous Studies Troubles the Digital Humanities
Jennifer Guiliano, Indiana University -Purdue University Indianapolis
These Images Are Similar, but Are Not the Same: Colonial Archives in the Age of Virtual Reunification
Ricardo Punzalan, University of Maryland
The 90% Stories of Diaspora from Indian Country and digital possibilities for mending colonial disruptions through online communities
Meredith McCoy, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill
Chair: Simon Ventura Trujillo, New York University
Jack D. Forbes and the Indigenous Approach to Mestiza/o History
Simon Ventura Trujillo, New York University
Melancholic Mestizaje and the 20th Century Chican@ Imaginary
Maria Josefina Saldana-Portillo, New York University
Gastro-politics, Fusion and Nation in Contemporary Peru
Maria Elena Garcia, University of Washington
● “Motley Articulations: Rene Zavaleta Mercado and the Sociology of Aburrimiento in the Americas”
○ Jose Antonio Lucero, University of Washington
Chair: Charlotte Cote, University of Washington
Cultivating a Space for Community Healing, Wellness and Revitalization: The Tseshaht Garden Project
Charlotte Cote, University of Washington
A Shade Tree for the Seedlings Organizing to Support Native Community Food Sovereignty
Elizabeth Hoover, Brown University
Enacting Food Sovereignty in New Zealand and Peru: revitalizing indigenous knowledge, food practices and ecological philosophies
Mariaelena Huambachano, Brown University
Expressions of Indigenous Food Sovereignty in 4th world reality
Dawn Morrison, Working Group on Indigenous Food Sovereignty and Secwepemc Nation
Chair: Janette Bulkan, University of British Columbia
Co-Producing Cultural affirmation and biodiversity protection in the North Rupununi, Guyana
Janette Bulkan, University of British Columbia
Kwakwaka’wakw epistemological stance towards traditional ecological knowledge, including Kwak’wala, their Indigenous language
Andrea Lyall, PhD Candidate University of British Columbia
Land Use Change and Traditional Food Plants in Lepcha Indigenous Villages in the Sikkim Himalayas
Saori Ogura, The University of British Columbia
The real value of forest territories: A First Nation perspective
Anne Bernard, Universite Laval
A case study of adaptation to change in the context of Mapuche People
Jose Arias-Bustamante, University of British Columbia
Chair: Brenda Child, University of Minnesota
Anishinaabe Perspectives on Electoral Participation: Expectations, Motivations and Observations
Brock T Pitawanakwat, University of Sudbury
Mino Bimaadiziwin through storywork & art by Indigenous Youth: Resurgent acts to (re)connection to culture, language and land
Cherylanne James, University of Victoria
Anishinaabeg Women’s Stories of Well Being: Fostering Gwesayjitodon Indo Bimaadiziiwin
Tricia D. McGuire-Adams, University of Ottawa
Chair: Bronwyn Dobchuk-Land, University of Winnepeg
Unsettling Colonial Logics: Indigenous Incarceration and the Links between Settler Colonialism and the Penitentiary in Canada
Vicki Chartrand, Bishop's University
The Culturally Discriminatory and Colonial Character of Risk Prediction Tools used by the Correctional Service of Canada
Jeff Ewart, Independent scholar
Anti-prison Organizing and the Colonial Logics of Non-profits in Winnipeg, Canada
Bronwyn Dobchuk-Land, University of Winnipeg
The Limits and Possibilities of Leveraging the Law for Anti-prison and Anti-colonial Politics
Mark Phillips, Independent scholar
Chair: Jolan Hsieh, National Dong Hwa University, Taiwan
Indigenous Access to Justice as A Human Right: Legal Aid Approach
Awi Mona Chih-Wei Tsai, National Dong Hwa University, Taiwan
Assessing Taiwan’s Indigenous Peoples Basic Law for the Protection of Communication Rights: The Policy Network Perspective
Yu-Chao Huang, National Dong Hwa University, Taiwan
Yi-tze Lee, National Dong Hwa University, Taiwan
Aboriginal Tribes as public juristic persons? Discussion on “Ethnic Autonomy” and “Ethnic Cohabitation” in Taiwan
Chin-Wen Wu, NCCU
Land Claims and Legal Rights: A Holistic Justice Perspective toward Indigenous Basic Law’s Practice and Challenge
Jolan Hsieh, National Dong Hwa University, Taiwan.
Chair: Lisa Kahaleole Hall, Wells College
Struggles of Memory Against Forgetting
Lisa Kahaleole Hall, Wells College
Contested Histories: Intergenerational Resistance Against State Erasures
A.W. Lee, University of Toronto, Mississauga
Two-Spirit Elders and Traditional Knowledge Holders: Narratives of Community Resistances and Resurgence
Dana Wesley, Trent University
Interrupting the Colonial Archive: Indigenous Methodologies and Anti-Oppressive Community-Based Research
Scott Morgensen, Queen’s University
Chair: Eric Meeks, Northern Arizona University
To be highly educated and Indigenous in the 19th century: The limited utility of borderlands and border crossings
Jean Barman, University of British Columbia
Uncovering Pueblo Indian Border-Crossers in the Progressive Era
Maurice Crandall, Dartmouth College
Falling Through Transnational Cracks: Lost Indigenous Biographies in the U.S.-Canadian Borderlands
Brenden Rensink, Charles Redd Center for Western Studies, Brigham Young University
Chair: Christopher Basaldú, PhD, University of Oklahoma
The Concept and Role of Place for First Nations Youth Mental Health
JoLee Saskamoose, University of Regina
Water Recovery: Transcontinental Cartographic Catharsis
L. Rain Prud’homme-Cranford, University of Calgary
Atahputi Suapʉ̱ha Urarʉ Using a Comanche Language Compass
Kathryn Pewenofkit Briner, Lenoir-Rhyne University
48. Chair: Chadwick Allen, University of Saskatchewan
Outbreak from the Vaudeville Archive
Christine Bold, University of Guelph
Mounds and Earthworks as Performances Sites: part 1
LeAnne Howe, University of Georgia
Mounds and Earthworks as Performances Sites: part 2
Chadwick Allen, University of Washington
Becoming Sound: Listening to Honor Songs, Sonic Weapons and Dissonance from Mount Scott to Standing Rock
Dustin Tahmahkera, University, Texas Austin
Chair: Angelica Lawson, University of Colorado
Indigenous Artists and Filmmakers Challenge the Racial Logics of Liberal Modernity
Suzanne Morrissette, York University
Indigenous Film Festivals: Transnational Indigeneities and Global Communities
Karrmen Crey, University of California, Los Angeles
Wakhotowin in Tomson Highway’s Kiss of the Fur Queen Movie
June Scudeler, University of British Columbia
Comment: Shannon Speed, University of California, Los Angeles
“Recognizing Sovereignty is a Milestone”: The Limits of Neoliberal Grammars in Tribal Governance
Megan Baker, University of California, Los Angeles
Da:ydi-xw na:tinixwe mixine:whe? A Case Study of neoliberalism & language loss in indigenous education
Sara Lorraine Chase, University of California, Berkeley
(Re/En)Visioning Relationality: A Return to Treatying
Lakota Shea Pochedley
“I’ll birth where I choose”: The Rematriation of Indigenous Birth in the face of Neoliberal Development
Caroline Doenmez, University of Minnesota
Chair: Aroha Harris, University of Auckland
Mapping and Un-mapping Tuki and Cook (or who framed New Zealand history?)
Aroha Harris, University of Auckland
Re-mapping Coast Salish Territory through Pauline Johnson’s Legends of Vancouver
Ashley Caranto Morford, University of Toronto
Body and Land in Innu Women Writing in Quebec
Jessica Janssen, Universite de Sherbrooke
A Decolonizing tour through a history of military infrastructure and UBC Campus
Selena M Couture, Assistant Professor
Chair: Jean Dennison, University of Washington
Indigenous-State Relations and the New Left in the Andes: Challenges and Opportunities
Roberta Rice, University of Calgary
Claiming and Taming Seattle: Chief Si’ahl, Urban Native Identity, and Settler Colonial Confusion
Alexandra Peck, Brown University
The Community Readiness Initiative in Kugluktuk, Nunavut: Adapting an Indigenous Framework to a Government Project Environment
Chelsea Gabel, McMaster University
Dana Holtby, Carleton University
Forests as sites of anti-colonial struggles: The Mau Mau and the fight against British Imperialism in Kenya
Gloria Kendi Borona, University of British Columbia
Chairs: Sandy Grande, Connecticut College and Jared Martineau, RPM.fm
Resounding Nanook: Tanya Tagaq Mediations of Breath and Reconciliation
Matthew Chrisler, CUNY Graduate Center
Breathing Through Agnosia
Kristen Simmons, University of Chicago
All of Your Raw Materials: Finding Indigenous voice in collaborative Art
Anne Spice, CUNY Graduate Center
Beyon Wren Moor
Chair: Clint Carroll, University of Colorado
Changing the map - creating tribally defined GIS boundaries in official statistics
Andrew Sporle, University of Auckland
Kirikowhai Mikaere, Development by Design
Chair: Patricia Marroquin-Norby, The Newberry Library
Mestizx Melancholia and the Touristic Commodification of P’urphepechas
Gabriela Spears-Rico, University of Minnesota, Twin Cities
More Than a Scalp Issue: How European Monopolies of Knowledge and Ethics Continue to Violate Indigenous Human Rights in Germany
Anna Luisa Schneider, University of Saskatchewan
Whither the “mixed economy?” Settler nostalgia, “subsistence” research, and the logic of elimination in Inupiaq Alaska
P. Joshua Griggen, University of Washington
All or Nothing: Indigenous Economies, Sovereignty and Unlicensed Reserve Gambling in Ontario, 1985-1996
Daniel Robert Murchison, York University
Chair: Sheryl Lightfoot, University of British Columbia
Water Invaders and Water Protectors: Historicizing the Occupation of the Malheur Wildlife Refuge in the Shadow of #NoDAPL
Matt Villeneuve, University of Michigan
Standing Rock, the Dakota Access Pipeline, and a History of Environmental Racism
Isaac O. Akande, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign
Water Protectors: An Indigenous Cosmology in Performance
Donia Mounsef, University of Alberta
Hinah Ded Unyak’unpi (We Are Are Still Here): NODAPL's Enactment of an Indigenous Radical Tradition
Jessica Ruby Fremland, University of California, Riverside
Chair: Brenda Child, University of Minnesota
Ka’oopkitmashook’: Becoming Family
Krystl Raven, University of Saskatchewan
Indigenous Reproductive Justice after Adoptive Couple v. Baby Girl
Krista L. Benson, Ohio State University
Settler-humanitarianism and the Indigenous child-victim
Krista Maxwell, University of Toronto
Chair: Aroha Harris, University of Auckland
Be(com)ing Ngati Kahungunu in the Diaspora: Maori Tribal Identity Within the Nation-State but Away from Ancestral Lands
Christina Gonzalez, University of Texas, Austin
Forest Samis go West - A Journey through the archives
Inge Firsk, Stockholm Sami Association
Diasporic Chamoru (Chamorro) Indigeneity: Cultural Renaissance, Political Status, and Academic Trajectories
Michael P. Perez, California State University, Fullerton
Indigenous Migrations and Changing Relationships
Serena Naepi, University of British Columbia
Chair: Danika Medak-Saltzman, University of Colorado
Kanaka Maoli Resurgent Refusals of Settler Colonial Capitalism
David Uahikeaikaleiʻohu Maile, University of New Mexico
Water Protectors from Turtle Island to Abya Yala: Indigenous Trans (Nation) al Responsibilities and Neoliberal Water Wars
Luis-Alfredo Garcia-Roque, University of Victoria
‘Seven Avocado Plants Come Dancing On’: Avocados and NAFTA in Tomson Highway’s Rose
Cameron Paul, University of Alberta
Everyday struggles for the protection of Forest Sami culture against “environmental friendly” colonial racist techno aggression
May-Britt Ohman, Uppsala University
Chair: David Chang, University of Minnesota
Shifting the Terrain: Rethinking Land Rights Issues Through Indigenous Approaches to Water
Shaun Stevenson, Carleton University
The Decolonization of Land Tenure in Guam (Guahan): The Chamorro Land Trust After 40 Years
Jimmy Taitano Camacho, University of Wisconsin, Madison
Harvey M. Jacobs, University of Wisconsin, Madison
Landscapes of Resistance: The Land as a Decolonial Agent at the Lava Beds and Haleakala National Park
Jessica Landau, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign
‘Traditional owner’ status and lived relations with land in rural Australia
Eve Vincent, Macquarie University
Chair: Jace Weaver, University of Georgia
Borders and Boundaries: The Mormon Settlement of Cardston and the Kainai Nation of the Blackfoot Confederacy
Stanley Thayne, Whitman College
Navigating Globalization through Myth in Quechua Communities of Southern Peru
Ben Bridges, Elon University
The Sachem and the Minister: The Influence of Algonquian Diplomacy on the Langauge of New England Indian Missions
Marie Balsley Taylor, Purdue University
Native Prophets, Priests and Politicians: Complicating Religious Resistance in Aotearoa/ New Zealand, 1897-1907
Hirini Kaa, University of Auckland
Chair: Glen Coulthard, University of British Columbia
Until All the People are Dancing: The Rise of Idle No More
Katherine Walker, University of British Columbia
Unlikely Alliances: Where were the Cowboys at Standing Rock?
Zoltan Grossman, The Evergreen State College
Dead in the Tracks: Sir John A., Statues and Metis Resistance
Kim Anderson, University of Guelph
The Water Protectors: The Fight for Cultural and Environmental Justice at the Dakota Access Pipeline Protests
Gregory Hitch, Brown University
Chair: Brian Klopotek, University of Oregon
Q’weld’ali, cooking fire: the impact of changing definitions of family among the Stó:lõ from 1860 to 1900
Angèlique Tardivel, University of Saskatchewan
Memories of Home: Red River Identity
Angie D. Tucker, University of Calgary
“The Metis has almost no government”: Historical Metis Governance and the Development of a Metis Constitutional Tradition
Adam Gaudry, University of Alberta
Bringing History Home:Teaching Indigenous Histories on the Stockbridge-Munsee Mohican Reservation
Rose Miron, University of Minnesota
Chair: Kristina Ackley, Evergreen State College
Images of Refusal: Indigenous Consciousness-Raising Activist Art
Yvonne N. Tiger, Montana State University - Northern
“Building Home, Building Sovereignty”: Refusals and Resistance in Canada’s Treaty 3 Territory
Annelies Cooper, York University
“My Law and Your Law Must Never Mix Up’ : Haudenosaunee Indigeneity and Refusals of Allotment from 1889-1909
Andrew Thomas Dietzel, Central Michigan University
Palestine and the Politics of Refusal
Ayah Hasan Wakkad, University of Kansas
Chair: Noelani Goodyear-Kaʻopua, University of Hawaiʻi
Implementing principles for government institutions working with Indigenous (Maori) knowledge
Mahina-a-rangi Joy Baker, Te Atiawa ke Whakarongotai
The Oral Traditions, Knowledge & Science Series: A Talking Story and Study Abroad to Indigenous Studies in the Pacific
Sheryl A. Day, University of Washington
The Power of Potlatch: Re-Defining Colonial Borderlands in Indigenous Modernity
Jen Adrienne Laliberte, Trent University
Mineral Claim Staking: Property, Consent, and Indigenous Jurisdiction
Dawn Hoogeveen, Univesity of British Columbia
Chair: Joshua Reid, University of Washington
From #CancelColbert to #NoDAPL: The Pedagogical Intersectionality of Hashtags in Introductory Native American Studies Courses
Kyung-Sook Boo, Sogang University
The Fight for Water and Identity: Preserving and Protecting the Water Rights and Vitality of the Kuyuitukadu
Amber Bill, University of California, Davis
The Human Cost of Energy: Native Disinterment at The Dalles Dam
John J. Dougherty, Reed College
“How Do We Grieve the Death of a River?” Bureau of Reclamation Media, Dam Literature and Representations of Indigenous Water
Jane Griffith, University of Toronto
Chair: Margaret Mutu, University of Auckland
Implementing Indigenous-led Constitutional Transformation: Experiences from Aotearoa
Margaret Mutu, University of Auckland
On the Constitutional DL: The realities of project implementation from a Rangatahi/youth perspective
Karena Karauria, The University of Waikato
Educating for constitutional transformation: Considerations for Indigenous educatorsVeronica MH Tawhai, Massy University
175 Years of resistance movements in Aotearoa - Matike Mai in context
Mereana Pitman, Ngati Porou, Eastern Institute of Technology
Chair: Nathalie Kermoal, University of Alberta
“Ghosting” the Metis Presence in Edmonton and Saint-Albert (Canada) in the XXth Century
Nathalie Kermoal, University of Alberta
The Visiting Way – A Metis Research Methodology
Janice Cindy Gaudet, University of Ottawa
Metis Territoriality: Displacement and Relocation of Metis Communities in the Twentieth Century
Chantal Roy
Living in a Fractured Land: Metis Pilgrimage as Sites of Continuation
Paul Gareau, University of Ottawa
Chair: Zoe Todd, Carleton University
I will answer them with fish: re/positioning human-fish relations and Metis legal orders in amiskwaciwaskahikan
Zoe Todd, Carleton Unviersity
Questioning the Line between Life and Death: Narratives of Extinction and No Return
Jessica Bardill, East Carolina University
Niwahkomakanak (my relatives): a nihiyaw (Cree) materialism of beads as other-than-human relatives
Tara Kappo, University of Alberta
Skunk Medicine and Deer Hide: Material Culture and the Performance of Mamiwiniwag Kinship
Mallory Whiteduck, University of Michigan
Thinking through the Wastelands: Post-Apocalyptic Indigenous Feminists and the Knowledges of Devastation
Erica Violet Lee, University of Saskatchewan
Chair: Matthew Wildcat, University of Alberta
Taking Care of Each Other So We Can Be Dangerous Together: Experiences of Prairie Kinship and Organizing in Montreal
Molly Swain, University of Alberta
Indigenous Citizenship, reserves and membership on the Canadian Prairies
Matthew Wildcat, University of Alberta
Prairie Families: Materiality, Kinship and Indigenous Governance
Lindsay Nixon, Concordia University
Ties the Bind: A Re-examination of the Degree of Division of Red River’s Convention of 40
Daniel Voth, University of Calgary
Chair: Wanda Nanibush, Art Gallery of Ontario
Sensory Colonialism, Residential Schools and the Remaking of Indigenous Worlds
Wanda Nanibush, Art Gallery of Ontario
Ian Mosby, University of Toronto
Haudenosaunee Nationhood on the High Steel: Iron Workers and the Indigenous City
Carlee Loft, McGill University
Allen Downey, McGill University
Monstrous histories, colonial encounters and the remaking of the Shishalh Territory
Jessica Silvey, Shishalh and Skwxu Mesh
Susan Roy, University of Waterloo
Chair: Katharina Ruckstuhl, University of Otago
The Science Challenge - Kaupapa Maori Principles guiding High-Tech Research
Te Taka Keegan, Waikato University
The insider/outsider Maori Scientist - Observations and Lessons
Jordan Waiti, Waikato University
The Maori Political in Aotearoa’s National Science Challenges
Katharina Ruckstuhl, University of Otago, New Zealand
Chair: K. Tsianina Lomawaima, Arizona State University
Commemoration and the Limits of Reconciliation: Canada 150 and the Whitecap Dakota First NationChair, Sibyl Diver, Stanford University
Lessons from the field: Striving for meaningful inclusion of Indigenous ecological knowledge in governance decisions
Jonaki Bhattacharyya, The Firelight Group
Susan Leech, The Firelight Group
Negotiating Indigenous Knowledge at the Science-Policy Interface: Insights from the Xaxil’p Community Forest
Sibyl Diver, Stanford University
Traditional economic knowledge for environmental governance in Aotearoa/New Zealand
Hekia Bodwitch, University of California - Berkeley
Protecting Cultural Identity in the Digital Environment
Hauiti Hakopa, University of Otago
Chair: Jenny Davis, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Chair: Brenda Farnell, University of Illinois
Multilingualism in Unexpected Places: Indigenous language practice versus academic presentation
Jenny Davis, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Wintercounts and Websites: NDN Pictography 901 to the Digital Age
Birgit Brander Rasmussen, SUNY Binghamton
Re/Counting Coup: Communicating Indigenous Vitality in the Age of Historical Trauma
Joseph P. Gone, University of Michigan
Narrating Culture into Clinical Work With Urban American Indians: Insights from a Brief Clinic Ethnography
William E Hartmann, University of Washington Bothell
Literary Structure and Embodied Narrative in indigenous Theater Performance
Brenda Farnell, University of Illinois
Chair: Josh Cerretti, Western Washington University
Contested Plymouth: Native Tours in a Commercialized Memorial Landscape
Lisa Blee, Wake Forest University
Decolonizing Bellingham: Reflections on Touring Native History
Josh Cerretti, Western Washington University
Deyoweniguhdoh: Removing anti-Native Slurs from Public Parks
Jodi Lynn Maracle, University at Buffalo
Bringing back the Wealth: Indigenizing the Campus
Cynthia Ann Updegrave, University of Washington
Chair: Noelani Goodyear-Kaʻopua, University of Hawaiʻi, Manoa
Cherokee Youth Perspectives on Community & Cultural Sustainability
Tiffanie Hardbarger, Northeastern State University
Together We Are Stronger” Hawaiian and Micronesian Solidarity for Climate Justice
Noelani Goodyear-Kaʻopua, University of Hawaiʻi, Manoa
Sustainability Nationhood: Comparative Indigenuity of Environmental Ethics in the U.S. and Canada
Jeff Corntassel, University of Victoria
Chair: Tim Frandy, Northland College
Decolonizing Pedagogies: Sustaining Anishinaabe Knowledge Traditions in New Contexts
Tim Frandy, Northland College
Mobilizing ‘Nipivut’ (our voice): using radio as a tool for community-driven change and development amongst Inuit in Montreal
Mark Watson, Concordia University
Indigenous Identity Meanings and Urban Experiences in Japan - A Kanto (Tokyo) Ainu Case
Tatsiana Tsahelnik, Hokkaido University
Reshaping the present by reconnecting to a past - “Diasporic Indigeneity” from a perspective of urban Ainu in Sapporo, Japan
Kanako Uzawa
Chair: Kim Tallbear, University of Alberta
Tipi Confessions: A Research-Creation Laboratory
Kim Tallbear, University of Alberta
“I confess… I Had Sex in the Campus Tipi” (Re)Claiming Irreconcilable Indigenous Spaces at Tipi Confessions Carleton
Charlotte Hoelke, Carleton University
If This Is My Body, Where Are My Stories?: A Praxis of an Indigenous Eroticanalysis
Tracy Bear, Faculty of Native Studies, University of Alberta
Beaver Hills Burlesque Collective: An Indigenous Feminist Trickster Practice of Decolonizing Gender and Sexuality
Kirsten Anna Lindquist, University of Alberta
Brittany Johnson, Faculty of Native Studies, University of Alberta
Chair: William Bauer, University of Nevada
California Dreamin’ in the Land of Lost TreatiesChair: Clyde Ellis
Featuring the “Canadian Indian Village”: Performing Indianness at the 1905 Exhibition in Earl’s Court
Linda Scarangella McNenly
The Great Pretenders: Playing Indian in Tecumseh!
Katrina Phillips, Macalester College
“Will the Real Indian Princess of Silent Westerns Please Stand Up?” Mona Dark Feather’s Challenge to Red Wing’s Feathered Crown
Linda Waggoner, California State University, Sonoma
‘The Whiteman’s Interpretation of Indian Ways’: Powwows, Cultural Appropriation, and American Indian Hobbyists, 1955-1975
Clyde Ellis, Elon University
Futures Beyond Settler Colonialism and (Re)Appropriative Whiteness: Honoring the Wisdom of Our Partners in Decolonial Struggle
Logan Narikawa, University of Hawai'i at Mānoa
Capitalism, Settler Colonialism and Urban Development in Hawai'i
Tina Grandinetti, University of Hawai'i at Mānoa
"Shading" Neoliberal Definitions of Place and Citizenship
Valorie Thomas, Pomona College
Chair: Elizabeth Rule, Brown University
Blood Quantum Biopolitics: Indigenous Peoples and Assisted Reproductive Technologies
Elizabeth Rule, Brown University
Blood as a Barrier: An Analysis of Blood Quantum Qualifications for Hawaiian Home Lands
Chanterelle Waialae, University of Hawaiʻi, Manoa
Reading between the Lines with a New Lens: Tribal “Race Thinking” on the Eve of the Indian Reorganization Act
Darnella Davis, Independent Scholar
Chair: Coll Thrush, University of British Columbia
Case Study of Indigenous activist movements in India and Canada: Indigenous Women Negotiating community ally-ship
Swapna Padmanabha, University of Saskatchewan
First Nations Urban Reserves in Manitoba: Determinants of Success
Charlotte Bezamat-Mantes, University of Manitoba
Understanding our past and reclaiming our culture: Metis conceptualizations of cultural continuity and mental health
Monique Auger, Simon Fraser University
Cassidy Caron, Metis
Urban Indigenous infrastructure and entrepreneuring Indigenous organisations
Deirdre Howard-Wagner,
Chair: Molly Swain, University of Alberta
Comment: Val Napoleon, University of Victoria
Nehiyaw Feminist Conceptions of Physicality, Vulnerability and Kinship
Emily Riddle, University of British Columbia
Ka Mayitotamihk: Reconfiguring Kinship Practices in Treaty Eight Territory
Dallas Hunt, University of British Columbia
The Wahkohtowin Project: Pedagogy and Practice through Community and Academic Indigenous-Based Learning Collaborations
Shalene Jobin, Hadley Friedland, University of Alberta
Chair: Kevin Murphy University of Minnesota
“UNITY is the Cry!” Relocation, Prison Activism and Settler Custodialism in 1960s Indian CountryChair: Beth Piatote, University of California, Berkeley
Identifying Indigenous Legal Traditions: Working with Maori Stories to Draw Out LawChair: Laura Graham, University of Iowa
Local Indigenous Movements and the Legal and Political Mobilization: A Case Study of an Education Policy in the Brazilian Amazon
Priscilla Cardoso Rodrigues, Federal University of Roraima, Brazil, Amazonia
Setting Precedent on Indigenous Religious Freedom in Canada: The Ktunaxa Nation Supreme Court Decision
Nicholas Shrubsole, University of Central Florida
Nexwenen (Our Land): Narrative Memory in Tsilhqot’in Nation v. British Columbia
Lorraine Weir, University of British Columbia
The Ho-Chunk Nation and the Legal Struggle to Protect Ancient Sacred Mounds
Todd Allin Morman, Anishinabe Legal Services
Chair: Peter Read, Australian National University
Speaking up: emotion and connection to place
Julia Claire Hurst, RMIT University
Information management: how do we reconcile the past?
Peter Read, Australian National University
Taking heart, talking heart
Karen Maber, Darug Community
Digital methods and tangible history
Jason Ensor, University of Western Sydney
Singing Us Into Existence: The Entwinement of Dule Poetry and Governance in “Tinaja” and “Civiliza mi corazon, mama”
Sue Haglund, University of Hawaii, ManoaChair: Dr. Sean Kerins, Australian National University
Caring for Country and the Resurgence of Traditional Governance in Australia
Bhiamie Williamson, University of Victoria
Indigenous Problem-Solving in the 21st Century: Utilizing Tuscarora Traditional Governance as the Framework of Youth Empowerment
Mia McKie, University of Victoria
Decolonizing Indigenous Language Pedagogies: Findings from Talk Story Roundtables with Language Educators
Daisy Rosenblum, University of British Columbia
Wesley Y. Leonard, University of California, Riverside
Developing a Language Revitalization Institute: Lushootseed on the Puyallup Reservation
Danica Miller, University of Washington, Tacoma
Paradise Lost: Garifuna Language and Identity in Coastal Belize
Jennifer Gomez Menjivar, University of Minnesota, Duluth
William Salmon, University of Minnesota, Duluth
The Shift in roles between elders and younger family members: Unintended consequences of language revitalisation
Linda Waimarie Nikora, University of Waikato
Chair: Dan Jr. Simplicio, Crow Canyon Archaeological Center
Research and Community Relevance
Dan Jr. Simplicio, Crow Canyon Archaeological Center
“The Land Tells Our Story” Urban Native Sense of Place and Implications for Wellness
Kathleen Ann Lynch, Boston University School of Medicine
Urban Planning, Navajo Style: Stronger Localized Self-Governance Through Grassroots Community Development that Works
Michelle Hale
“Too Valuable for Indians” Racist Discourses on Property, Urban Planning and Treaty Land Entitlement in Winnipeg
Julie Tomiak, Ryerson University
Chair: Robert Innes, University of Saskatchewan
Politics of Place: Resurgence Pedagogy in the Post-Secondary Classroom
Lianne Marie Leda Charlie, University of Hawaiʻi at Manoa
Reflections on the Implications of wahkohtowin for Research and Teaching
Robert Hancock, University of Victoria
Curricular constructions of land and property in the Quebec Education Program: Implications for decolonization
Christopher Reid, McGill University
Chair: Elizabeth Hoover, Brown University
Unsettling Pedagogies in Food Sovereignty Movements in Canada
Lauren Kepkiewicz, University of Toronto
“Youth in The States”: The Muscogee Nation’s Nineteenth-Century College Education Program
Rowan Faye Steineker, University of Central Oklahoma
Railroad Mobility and Boarding School Experiences, 1900-1945
Kevin Whalen, University of Minnesota, Morris
Chair: Rayna Green, Smithsonian Institution
‘Trans-Indigenism’ as a decolonizing strategy of the and Native American food sovereignty movement
Zuzanna Buchowska, Adam Mickiewicz University, Poznan, Poland
Feed the people and you will never go hungry: Illuminating Coast Salish economy of affection
Dara Kelly, University of Victoria
Chair and comment: Mishuana Goeman
Opposing Oppression, Indigenous Feminism
Joyce Green, University of Regina
Tracing Links: Poor Health, Poverty and Metis Elder Women
Diedre Desmarais, University of Manitoba
Indigenous Recognition, Women and Neo-Liberal State Construction
Isabel Altamirano-Jimenez, University of Alberta
En-Gendering Indigenous Research Methods
Gina Starblanket, University of Victoria
Chair: Krista Zawadski, University of British Columbia
Where Do We Keep Our Past? Working Towards an Indigenous Museum and Preserving Nunavut’s Heritage
Krista Zawadski, University of British Columbia
Presence and Materiality: Exploring Indigenous Agency and Archival Photographic Object
Brittany Watson, Independent scholar/Whyte Museum of the Canadian Rockies
Dagny Dubois, Athabasca University/Whyte Museum of the Canadian Rockies
Reclaiming Tangible Heritage: Material Culture and Indigenous Aesthetics in Maya California
Deanna Barenboim, Sarah Lawrence College
Chair: Richard Moran, University of Alberta
Acknowledging Physical Genocide in Residential Schools
Richard Moran, University of Alberta
The Graphic novel as Indigenous Narrative Art: Re-Exploring the Residential School Experience
Melissa Beard Jacob
Boarding School Legacies, Listening and the Limits of Apology in Eric Gansworth If I Ever Get Out of Here
Mandy Suhr-Sytsma, Emory University
“Though Close, We Were So Far Away” : Spatialization of Testimony in Residential School Graphic Novels
Melanie Braith, University of Manitoba
Chair: Jennifer Hardwick, Queen’s University
A Tool for Survival: Twitter and Indigenous Public Resistance
Jennifer Hardwick, Queen’s University
Sightlines: The Strategic Use of VIsual Tools of Resistance Against the Dakota Access Pipeline
Amber Hickey, University of California, Santa Cruz
Pipelines and Protest: A study on the Media Blackouts of the Standing Rock Protests
Marena Tehya Mahto, Montana State University
Digital Colonialism: Social Media, Ojibwe Treaty Rights and the Freeman Expedition
Joseph K Whitson, University of Minnesota
Chair: Quill Christie, University of Victoria
Urban Indigenous Futurisms: Re-imaging accountable relationships to homelands through artistic practice
Quill Christie, University of Victoria
Ocean Planning: Valuing Indigenous Knowledge for Interjurisdictional Coordination
Kelsey Leonard, McMaster University
Land-Based Education: Honouring Relationships and Responsibilities Between Universities and Indigenous Communities
Ryan H Duplassie, University of Manitoba
Mauri Moana, Mauri Tangata, Mauri Ora: Making Room for Maori Values for the Marine Environment
Kelly Ratana, NIWA
Chair: Christine Sy, University of British Columbia
From Invasive species to migrating Nations: Broad perspectives of invasive species in Anishinaabe Aki
Nicholas Reo, Dartmouth College
Laura A. Ogden, Dartmouth College
“Overlapping Boundaries: Columbia Plateau Indians, Settler Colonialism and the 49th Parallel in the Mid-Nineteenth Century”
Patrick Lozar, University of Washington
Governing Settler Colonialism: Kinship, Treaties and Alliances in the Eastern Great Lakes, 1783-1850
Zachary Smith, University of Toronto
Chair: Jeffrey D. Means, University of Wyoming
Settler Colonialism and the Lakota: Shifting Concepts of Lakota Identity and Citizenship 1848-2016
Jeffrey D. Means, University of Wyoming
“Indiantown”: Autonomy, Sovereignty and Indigenous Identity in Cuba, c. 1700-1800
Jason Michael Yaremko, University of Winnipeg
Little Red Died For Your Sins: The Struggle Over Indian Identity and the Rise of Student Activism At The University of Oklahoma
Matthew DeSpain, Rose State College
Stories of Contemporary Metis Identity in British Columbia, Canada: Discourses of Race, Culture and Nationhood
Gabrielle Legault, University of British Columbia, Okanagan
Chair: Jennifer Spear, Simon Fraser University
“A Taxonomy of Native Rememberings and Forgettings: 16th Century Nahua Letters and Petitions to the Spanish Crown
Kelly McDonough, University of Texas, Austin
Transgressive Life and the Recognition of the Indigenous Subject beyond Sovereignty: A comparative Approach
Eman Ghanayem, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign
From Facebook to Ixamoxtli: Nahua Kinship and Activism through Social Media Networking
Adam W. Coon, University of Minnesota, Morris
Elimination and Exploitation: The Case of the Seneca Trust Fund
Emilie Connolly, New York University
Chair: Jodi Byrd, University of Illinois
Reclaiming Glacier National Park in Mourning Dove’s Cogewea (1927)
Lindsey Claire Smith, Oklahoma State University
Copyleft Romanticism and the Fallacies of Restorative Dialogue: Critical Reflections on the ‘Of the North’ Controversy
Bruno Cornellier, University of Winnipeg
Circulating the Word: Small Presses and the Institutional Life of Native American Poetry, 1963-1978
Frank Kelderman, University of Louisville
Solidarity in Prefix: Tracing Co-National Networks through the Writings of Gertrude and Raymond Michael P Taylor, Brigham Young University
Accessing the academy: issues for Maori early career academics in New Zealand
Meegan Hall, Victoria University of Wellington
“You’re not Going to Get Very Far Talking to Him”: Gitxsan Approaches to Their History of Industrial Logging, 1885-1985
Nicholas May, University of British Columbia
Indian Indigeneity: Making a case for Critical Indigenous Studies on The Indian Subcontinent
Elspeth Iralu, University of New Mexico
Chair: Joshua Miner, University of Kansas
Developing spatial and participatory solutions for the Heiltsuk First Nation’s housing crisis
Stefania Maria Pizzirani, University of British Columbia
Indigenous community based counselors: Dual relationships as a strength and challenge
Alanaise Goodwill, University of British Columbia
Jacquelin Ravel, University of British Columbia
Critical Game Mechanics and Environmental Reclamation in Indigenous Procedural Media
Joshua Miner, University of Kansas
Chair: Robert Nichols, University of Minnesota
Governing Enjoyment: Indigenous Sovereignty and White Possession at Intersections of Gambling and Mining
Fiona Jean Nicoll, University of Alberta
Finding a Place for Indigenous Administration
Lorinda Riley, University of Hawai'i, West O'ahu
Stories from the margins: Reflections on distrust, illegitimacy and self-determination
Madgalena Ugarte, University of British Columbia
Nakhwanh Gwich’in Khehlok Iidilii, We are Our Own People: Reflections of TeethI’it Gwich’in Governance
Elaine Donna Alexie, University of Alberta
Chair: Jeff Corntassel, University of Victoria
Parsing the rhetoric: does the international recognition of ICCAs provide an “extra layer of protection?”
Natalie Amelia Swift, University of British Columbia
Q’eqchi’ Mayas and Learning through Defense of Territory in Guatemala
Autumn Knowlton, University of British Columbia
Stopping the Back 40 Mine: Fighting Jurisdictional Battles
Paula R Mohan, University of Wisconsin
Chair: Jessica Kolopenuk, University of Victoria
Decolonizing Indigenous Sex Work through Relational Narrative Inquiry
Rachelle McKay
Beyond Decriminalization: Centring Indigenous Justice in Canadian Sex Work Advocacy
Claire Stewart-Kanigan, University of Victoria
Gone Girls? Genetic (Re)articulations of Female Indigeneity through Canada’s DNA-Based Missing Persons Program
Jessica Kolopenuk
Chair: Renae Watchman, Mount Royal University
Writing for Resurgence: Indigenous Authors Creating Community
Aubrey Jean Hanson, University of Calgary
Reimaging Attawapiskat: Mixed Media Storytelling
Sarah Marie Wiebe, University of Victoria
Erynne Gilpin, University of Victoria
Laurence Butet-Roch, Ryerson Transmedia Zone
Decolonial Love, Decolonial Rage: Creating Spaces for the Emotions of Indigenous Women
Tsatia M. Adzich, University of Victoria
“Writing/Coming Home through Stories” Indigenous Voices in Translation
Sarah Henzi, Simon Fraser University
Chair: Jeffrey Ostler, University of Oregon
From ‘Iroquois Cruelty’ to the Mohawk Warrior Society: Stereotyping and the Strategic Uses of a Reputation for Violence
Scott Manning Stevens
“We Rejected a System that Abused and Rejected Us” Challenges at the Interface Between Violence, Offender Risk and Indigeneity
Andrew Day, Deakin University
Indigenous Female Gang Members and the Reproduction of Street Masculinity
Robert Henry, University of Calgary
Colonial Intimacies, Violences and Solidarities
Nishant Upadhyay, Northern Arizona University