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Guest Post: UC Santa Cruz Graduate Student Candy Martinez tells us about her experience at the 5th Annual UCD NAS Graduate Student Symposium

5/13/2016

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​I was honored to attend and present at the 5th Annual Native American Studies Symposium at UC Davis. I enjoyed a pleasant Amtrak ride from Santa Cruz to Davis admiring the overcast sky and the Northern California atmosphere. Davis, like Santa Cruz, is filled with so much natural beauty but appreciated how flat the land is in Davis!
 
I identify myself as a women of color who has indigenous Zapotec roots, but don’t necessarily self-identify as Zapotec because of my U.S. upbringing. This was my first event that I attended filled with Native peoples from all over the U.S. I learned about the ways in which different groups from throughout the Americas continue to hold onto their oral histories and traditions. As I grow older, the more I realize the need to conserve my indigenous identity. During this event, I valued the presentations by the graduate students emphasizing indigenous methodologies and epistemologies. There was a salient emphasis on knowing the land, respecting nature by taking just what one needs, and recognizing the spirits of the land (as mentioned by the keynote speaker Dr. Dian Million). By showing us pictures of her family, Dr. Million reminded us of the necessity to cherish our families while we jump through the hurdles of graduate school.
 
This symposium left me with an idea some frameworks that I would like to incorporate including Linda Tuhiwai Smith's, Decolonizing Methodologies and Dr. Million’s book Therapeutic Nations: Healing in an Age of Indigenous Human Rights.
 
I have a lot of homework to do and my presentation about generational trauma and memory made me realize how I failed to include the literature of Native American scholars or Mixteca epistemologies, but I’m so happy to know that there are safe spaces such as the symposium where it is okay not to have the answers yet but to work through the problems. It was especially nice to have people come up to me after my presentation and provide me with additional reading material and/or comments.


​Candy Martinez is a second year doctoral student in the Latin American and Latina/o Studies department at UC Santa Cruz. Her research examines the discourse of memory and generational trauma in cine comunitario films, particularly contemporary films focusing on Oaxacan communities. Candy is interested in alternative ways of rethinking about trauma and healing methods. 
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5th Annual Native American Studies Graduate Student Symposium is right around the corner!

5/1/2016

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The 5th  Annual Native American Studies Graduate Student Symposium Transitioning from the Fifth Sun: Global Indigenous Movements is coming up this week! The symposium will be held Thursday, May 5th through Friday, May 6th at MU II (Memorial Union) at the University of California, Davis. We are looking forward to hearing everyone’s presentations and having engaging dialogue.

In addition to our scheduled panels, on Thursday, May 5th we will have our creative hour and luncheon where participants will share their creative work.

We are pleased to announce that our keynote speaker for Friday, May 6th will be Dr. Dian Million (Tanana Athabascan) from the University of Washington. 
Currently Dr. Million is an Associate Professor in American Indian Studies and an Affiliated faculty in Canadian Studies, the Comparative History of Ideas Program, and the English Department at UW. Dian Million’s most recent research explores the politics of mental and physical health with attention to affect as it informs race, class, and gender in Indian Country. She is the author of Therapeutic Nations: Healing in an Age of Indigenous Human Rights (University of Arizona Press, Critical Issues in Indigenous Studies Series, 2013) as well as articles, chapters, and poems. Therapeutic Nations is a discussion of trauma as a political narrative in the struggle for Indigenous self-determination in an era of global neoliberalism. Reading unprecedented violence against Indigenous women and all women as more than a byproduct of global contention Therapeutic Nations makes an argument for the constitutive role violence takes in the now quicksilver transmutations of capitalist development. As an active writer and poet she strives to bring experiential and felt thought to classrooms.

We hope that you are able to join us for these exciting events! Check out the Symposium 2016 page for the schedule.

Please click on this link to register for our symposium:  http://goo.gl/forms/9dhpFzrTfj

Check back to see pictures from our symposium!
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The 2016 symposium artwork was created by UC Davis Native American Studies graduate student Spencer Mann.
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