INDIGENOUS GRADUATE STUDENTS CONFERENCE
Thursday, April 3 to Friday, April 4, 2008
University of New Mexico, Albuquerque, NM

"Planting Seeds of Our Research"

This conference is jointly sponsored by the Institute for American Indian Research under the College of Arts and Sciences at the University of New Mexico, Native American Studies, Society of Native American Graduate Students, Native American Studies Indigenous Research Group, and the Indigenous Nations Library Program.

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Schedule of Events

Thursday, April 3, 2008
OPENING SESSION - 2:00pm Welcome - UNM Dane Smith Hall 120

What is Indigenous Self-Determination in Education?
DISTINGUISHED PANELISTS
Kara Bobroff, Dine’/Lakota, Principal, Native American
Community Academy (NACA); Trisha Moquino, Santo Domingo/Cochiti Pueblos, Founder, Iiwas Katrusini
Immersion Preschool Founder; Carlotta Bird, Santo Domingo Pueblo, Indian Education Consultant; Glenabah Martinez, Taos Pueblo/Dine’, Assistant Professor, College of Education, UNM, Matt Pecos, Cochiti Pueblo, Santa Fe Indian School Community Liaison. Panel Convener: Tiffany Lee, Assistant Professor, Native American Studies, UNM.

Gala Dinner Program »
Zimmerman Library West Wing 5:30pm Native American Studies Indigenous Research Group Poster Session and Silent Auction
Flute music by Andrew Thomas Dinner will be served at 6:00pm
Master of Ceremonies Dr. Steven Verney, Assistant Professor of Psychology

WELCOME & INTRODUCTIONS

Keynote Speaker: Dr. Gerald Vizenor, Prolific Author & Scholar, Professor of American Studies, UNM and Professor Emeritus,University of California, Berkeley

Friday, April 4, 2008
GRADUATE RESEARCH SESSIONS with Faculty Responses to Presentations 8am-5pm
UNM Ortega Hall 3rd Floor Reading Room
Beverages are not allowed in Reading Room but must be kept in the Ortega Lounge Area, Thank you.

8:00am Coffee in Ortega Lounge

8:30 am -Tasha Hubbard, Cree – The Buffalo and its Relationship to Indigenous Creative Expression. Ph.D. Candidate, University of Calgary, Canada

9:00 am - Monique Lloyd, Anishinaabe/Ojibwe, Nipissing – The Power of Stories: Using Constructivismand Sense-Making to Introduce Native Students to Tribal Archives. Masters Degree Candidate, Emporia State University, OR

10:30 am -Lannell R. Matt, Salish – A Biological Distance Study of Non- Metric Cranial Traits for Three Prehistoric NM Sites: Nanishagi Ruins, Kuaua Pueblo, and the Angus Site. Ph.D. Candidate, Southern Illinois University

11:00 am -Edward Jolie, Lakota/Hodulgee Muscogee – New Stories from Ancient Baskets: Innovation and Change in Indigenous Basketweaving
Tradition. Ph.D. Candidate,University of New Mexico

12:00 -1:30pm LUNCH
South Side of Zimmerman Library near the Fountain. Mary Jane Edaakie, Isleta Pueblo Tacos

1:30pm -Marlowe Sam, Colville Confederation Okanagan – Water Systems: A Historical Retrospect of Control, Domination,and Change. Masters Program, University of British Columbia, Okanagan

2:00 pm- Ng’asike John Teria, Turkana District, Kenya – Use of African Indigenous Science Knowledge in Elementary Curriculumin Pastoralist Nomadic Communities of Kenya, Africa

Refreshment break 3pm

3:30 pm Lee-Anna Huisman, Gitxsan – Exploring the Impact of Long QT Syndrome (Genetic heart condition affecting First Nations in British Columbia, CA): A Closer Look. MSc. Candidate, University of British Columbia, Canada

4:00 pm- Jennie Luna, Xicana – (re)emergence of a Xicana Indigena Identity through Danza Mexica. Ph.D. Candidate, University
of California, Davis

Closing Reception at 5:30pm co-hosted by UNM Graduate Students
Zimmerman Library West Wing

Significance of Indigenous Research

Indigenous Peoples participation in modern life continues to challenge the older systems of knowledge
and learning. But the philosophies and values that kept our ancestors strong in heart and mind are not forgotten. These two days are intended to give us time to reflect on research questions and honor higher education that highlights Indigenous Peoples. Investment in this gathering is a call of destiny as Peoples on this earth to be strengthened. The future is here now and so today it is time for us to share with one another those ideas that make us truly human. Congratulations and recognition is also given to IFAIR Scholarship recipients selected to present at this Conference. Ku’da. B.Singer