Schedule--All events held in the Bank of America Theatre
Wednesday, November 2, 2022
4:00 - Doors Open
4:30-5:00 pm - Opening Remarks
5:00-6:30 pm - Keynote Lecture
“Indigenous Social Justice and the Climate Displacement after Hurricane Ida”
- Theresa Dardar (Pointe-au-Chien Tribe)
- Patty Ferguson Bohnee (Pointe-au-Chien Tribe), Arizona State University
6:30-7:45 - Reception
Thursday, November 3, 2022
8:30 - Doors Open
9:00-10:30 - Conceptualizing Indigenous Borderlands
Conceptual issues in approaching Indigenous borderlands and their crossings
Chair: Donna House (Dine’ Kinyaa’áanii born for Oneida Lotinya’lu, Dine' maternal grandfather is Tsénjíkíní, Dine' paternal grandfather is Tł'izí lání)
- Liliana Sampedro, University of California, San Diego: “Theorizing the Politics of Indigenous Migration: Proposing a Theory of Indigenous Crossings”
- Boyd Cothran, York University: “Reclaiming the Klamath River: Indigenous Sovereignty, the Rights of Nature, and the Borderlands of Personhood in the Global American West”
- Fantasia Painter (Salt River Pima-Maricopa Indian Community), UC-Irvine: “Haṣan as Intervention: Thinking Our Relatives in the U.S.-Mexico Borderlands”
10:45-12:15 - Borderlands of Early America
Indigenous narratives, borderlands, and networks on a deeper temporal horizon
Chair: Timothy Wilcox (Diné and Ohkay Owingeh Pueblo), Stanford University Heritage Services
- Juliana Barr, Duke University: “When the Woman in Blue Came, the Goddess Zacado Stayed Put: Archaeology and History in the Early Southwest”
- Alec Zuercher Reichardt, University of Missouri: “Path Diplomacy and Networked Sovereignty in the Eighteenth-Century Ohio River Valley”
- Marsha Weisiger, University of Oregon: “Towards a Reconception of Borderlands on the Colorado Plateau”
12:15-1:45 - Lunch Break
1:45-3:15 - Territoriality and Space
Indigenous spatial and territorial relationships as alternatives to settler paradigms
Chair: Justine Teba (Santa Clara, Tesuque, Acoma Pueblos), The Red Nation and Red Media
- Jonathan Quint, University of Michigan: “Boundaries and Borders of Anishinaabewaki”
- Holly Miowak Guise (Iñupiaq), University of New Mexico: “(Re)conceptualizing Indigenous Alaska as a Borderland”
- Michelle Vasquez Ruiz, University of Southern California: “Challenging Zapotec Immobilities and Border Militarization”
3:30-5:00 - Sovereign Relationships and Border Politics
Indigenous sovereignties in borderlands histories
Chair: Christine Ami (Diné), Associate Professor of Native American Studies and NEH Research Awardee for TCU Faculty, Diné College
- Gordon Lyall, University of Victoria: “’They might be Americans but they’re our family’: The Boldt Decision, Fishery Commissions, and Indigenous Foreshore Rights Across the Salish Sea, 1974-1994”
- Richard Maska, University of New Mexico and Joseph Ukockis, University of New Mexico: “Strategies of (Dis)incorporation: A Continental Perspective on North American Borders”
- Jeffrey Shepherd, University of Texas, El Paso: “The Apache Treaty of 1852: Power, Race, and Diplomacy in the U.S.-Mexico-Apache Borderlands”
Friday, November 4, 2022
8:30 - Doors Open
9:00-10:30 - Violence, Racism, and Inequality
Violent interfaces between Indigenous and state-centered borderlands
Chair: Elena Ortiz (Ohkay Owingeh Pueblo), Founding Board Member of Red Media, an Indigenous Media Project, and member of The Red Nation
- Jennifer Denetdale (Diné), University of New Mexico: “Reflections on the Death of Loreal by a Winslow Cop: Border Towns, Settler Colonialism, and History”
- Nellie Jo David (Tohono and Hia Ced O’odham): “Mining and Militarization: The Multi-National Settler Dispossession of O’odham Territory”
- Danielle Purifoy, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, and Andrew Curley (Diné), University of Arizona: “Reservation Communities and Black Towns: Intersections of Indigenous and Black Spatial Futures”
10:45-12:15 - Sanctuary and Refuge
Indigenous relations of mobility, refuge, and sanctuary
Chair: Adrian Chavana (Chicano/Tejano/Coahuiltecan), PhD Candidate, University of Minnesota-Twin Cities
- Tyla Betke, Carleton University: “We Didn’t Flee, We Knew Where We Were Going: Using Oral Histories in Community-Engaged Research to Understand Plains Cree Border Crossings”
- Alexandra Peck, University of British Columbia: “Parallel Experiences of Marginalization and Resilience at Discovery Bay: Recovering a 19th Century Intertribal Village, Multicutural Mill Town, and Womyn’s Refugia”
- Yuridia Ramirez, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign: "Preparing for Departure: Indigenous Mexicans and the Primer curso sobre los derechos de los trabajadores migrantes"
12:15-1:45 - Lunch Break
1:45-3:15 - Kinship and Belonging
Breaking borderland binaries with frameworks of kinship and belonging
Chair: Marcus Macktima (San Carlos Apache Tribe (Ndée)), Research Associate, Northern Arizona University
- Patrick Lozar (Confederated Salish and Kootenai Tribes), University of Victoria: “’Home was, part of the time, north of the line, and part of the time south of it’: Belonging, Status, and Division in the Northern Borderlands”
- Nakia Parker, Michigan State University: “Slavery, Freedom, and Belonging in the Indian Territory Borderlands”
- Neil Dodge (Diné), University of Nevada, Las Vegas: “Reimagined People: Captives as Beloved Kin, 1846-1864”
3:30-5:00 - Indigenous Mobilities
Contemporary perspectives on Indigenous mobility and nation-state efforts to limit that mobility
Chair: Jerome Jeffery Clark (Diné), Indigenous Studies and English, Arizona State University
- Gregory S. Lella, Northern Arizona University: “Surrounded: How the Border Patrol Punishes Tohono O’odham Borderlands Identity”
- Emil’ Keme (K’iche’ Maya Nation), Emory University and International Mayan League and Juanita Cabrera López (Maya Mam), International Mayan League: “Guatemalan Colonial State, Forced Migration, and Maya Resistance from Turtle Island”
- Brittany Luby (Anishinaabe-kwe, atik totem), University of Guelph: “‘The survival of Wild Rice is a life and death issue for us’: Defending Anishinaabe Harvesting Rights in Ontario, Canada, 1873-Present”
Saturday, November 5, 2022
8:30 - Doors Open
9:00-10:30 - Borderlands of Memory
Indigenous borderlands and Indigenous-settler politics of production of memory
Chair: Estevan Rael-Gálvez, PhD, Executive Director, Native Bound Unbound - Archive of Indigenous Slavery
- Noah Hanohano Dolim (Kanaka ‘Ōiwi (Native Hawaiian)), University of California, Irvine: “’(Re)Generations’ from the Borderland: Eugenics and Native Hawaiian Family History at the Bernice Pauahi Bishop Museum, 1920-2021”
- Martin Rizzo-Martínez, California Department of Parks & Recreation: “The California Missions as Contested Sites”
- Deana Dartt (Coastal Band Chumash), Live Oak Consulting: "Mapping the Camino Indigenous: Reclaiming the Road on Our Terms"
10:45-12:15 - Linguistic Borderlands
Community-centered linguistic “reclamation” efforts to engage Indigenous pasts and futures
Chair: Alejandra Dubcovsky, Associate Professor, UC Riverside
- Edgar García Rosas (Ópata) and Isabel Cristina Murrieta López (Ópata): “Esfuerzos Locales y Virtuales por la Recuperación de la Cultura y el Idioma de la Nación Ópata”
- Christian Ruvalcaba, University of California, Santa Cruz and Dani Ahuicapahtzin Cornejo (Ópata/Xicano/Picunche/Chileno), University of California, Davis: "Mosaic Paths: Access and Unity in a Transborder Language Recovery Effort"
- Erin Debenport, UCLA, Richard Hernández (Ysleta del Sur Pueblo), YDSP Tiwa Language Preservation Program, and Rick Quezada (Ysleta del Sur Pueblo); University of Texas, El Paso and YDSP Cultural Center: "Language Reclamation at Ysleta del Sur Pueblo, Texas"
