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A Note from our Symposium Chairs:

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The Graduate Students of NAS have hosted another successful event, our 2nd Annual Native American Studies Graduate Student Symposium: “Weaving the Roots of Knowledge.”  The symposium committee invited scholars from across disciplines to come together in a setting which fostered new scholarship and provided a space to engage in dialogue about research that centered Indigenous issues. 

This year the Native American Studies Graduate Student Symposium reached beyond the UCD campus and extended an invitation for participation to UC Berkeley. The graduate students at UC Berkeley responded to our call for papers and were an invaluable addition to our event.For the first time our symposium was a two-day event, which took place April 26-27, 2013 in the Mee room of the Memorial Union. Our symposium began with an opening prayer and remarks by Dr. Inés Hernández-Avila, our NAS department Chair. The symposium included eight sessions, 21 presenters, a creative hour hosted by Professor Hulleah J. Tsinhnahjinnie, and three Keynote speakers including Dr. Melissa Leal, Kathy Wallace, and KateriMasten.

At the Weaving the Roots of Knowledge Symposium we displayed artwork in the room which made it a distinctly Indigenous space. Sharing the artwork that was submitted by our graduate students also allowed us to share Indigenous culture in a multiplicity of ways. The items on display included six Northwest California Indian baskets, an award wining fancy dance shawl created by Nicole Blalock-Moore, a painting by Duskin Drum, a Nahuatl mask made by CuauhtemocLule, and award wining aprons made my Cutcha Risling-Baldy, Stephanie Lumsden, and Angel Hinzo.

By the end of our symposium all the participants had shared well-prepared presentations, the audience had responded with inquisitive and insightful commentaries, and everyone present gained a wealth of knowledge about the exciting graduate research being done on Indigenous issues.

This event is so exciting because our NAS graduate student symposium is the only one of its kind. It is an event where Graduate students who do research concerning Native American communities can come together in an academic space and share our research with our colleagues. The Native American Studies Graduate Student Symposium is a new symposium but the graduate committee plans on keeping this symposium alive, expanding its audience, and incorporating more participants. The Native American Studies Graduate Student Symposium started two years ago with participation limited to the UC Davis campus, this year the committee opened participation to UC Berkeley graduate students, and now because of our success, next year we are planning to open our doors to all graduate student in the UC system!

A huge thank you to our sponsors:

UC Davis American Studies Graduate Student Association, Department of Native American Studies, Dean Jessie Ann Owens ( UC Davis Division of Humanities, Art and Cultural Studies), UC Humanities Research Institute, Dean Anthony Coscordi (UC Berkeley Arts and Humanities), UC Davis Native American Faculty & Staff Association, UC Davis Environmental Justice Project, UC Davis Student Recruitment and Retention Center, UC Davis Women’s Resources and Research Center, UC Davis LGBTRC, UC Davis Graduate Student Association, Dean Jeffery Gibeling (UC Davis Office of Graduate Studies.

-2nd Annual Native American Studies Graduate Student Symposium Committee (Stephanie Lumsden, Cutcha Risling Baldy, Vanessa Esquivido, Angel Hinzo)

Welcome!

2nd Annual Native American Studies
Graduate Student Symposium:
Weaving the Roots of Knowledge
April 26-27, 2013


Co-sponsored by the Department of Native American Studies

We are pleased to announce the 2nd Annual Native American Studies Graduate Student Symposium, to be held on the UC Davis campus on April 26-27th, 2013. This year’s theme is “Weaving the Roots of Knowledge.” Weaving can be understood as the interlacing of strands to form a texture, fabric, or design. With regards to Native American Studies and Indigenous research, some of the questions we seek to dialogue about throughout our two-day symposium include, but are not limited to: How and why do we weave knowledges together?; How and why do we interpret the complexities of narratives, textures, fabrics, and designs?, What knowledges are gained from interweaving disciplines, methodologies, and methods of research?, and when is it necessary to unweave narratives?

Symposium Schedule
Friday April 26, 2013
Mee Room (Memorial Union) - UC Davis

9:00 - 9:45 a.m.
  • Welcoming Session
  • Opening Blessing
  • Opening Remarks
10:00 - 11:00 a.m.
Session 1: Revitalization, Resistance, and Knowledge in Indigenous Educatio
  • Wá:šiw ʔÍtlu: Native Youth Narratives on Heritage Language Revitalization -- Caitlin "Katie" Keliiaa (UC Berkeley)
  • Visual Continuance, Resistance and Presence through Assimilation: Visual Sovereignty and the Native American Boarding School Experience from Ft. Marion to the Indian New Deal -- Douglas Worley (UC Davis)
  • Re-Thinking Interculturalidad in the Mexican State: Intercultural Education and the P’urhépecha People -- Maria G. Gutierrez (UC Davis)
11:15 - 12:00 p.m.
Session 2: Navigating Narratives - Weaving Indigeneity
  • What Lies Beneath the Skin: Entangled Narratives of Indigeneity, Islamophobia, and Whitening in Sherman Alexie’s Flight -- Daniel Valella (UC Berkeley)
  • Weaving the Silence of the Archives: A Creative Presentation on the Similar Historical Experiences of Native Americans and Filipinos under U.S. Rule -- Tria Andrews (UC Berkeley)
12:15 - 1:30 p.m.
Keynote Luncheon
  • Dr. Melissa Leal (Esselen/Ohlone) - PhD Graduate From Native American Studies at UC Davis
  • Kathy Wallace (Karuk/Mohawk/Yurok) - San Francisco State Cultural Liaison NAGPRA Program
1:45 - 2:30 p.m.
Session 3: Land, Law, Labor, and Indigenous Spaces
  • A Theoretical Framework for Incorporating Traditional Ecological Knowledge in Collaborative Ecosystem Management Strategies -- Danielle V. Dolan (UC Davis)
  • Sheila Watt-Cloutier: cool jurisprudence hailing in the heat -- Duskin Drum (UC Davis)
  • The Work of Making Home: Domestic Labor and Survivance in Lucy Young’s “Out of the Past” --Kaitlin Walker (UC Davis)
2:45 - 3:30 p.m.
Session 4: Tangled Legalities - Experiences of People and Law
  • Native American Women and the Prison-Industrial Complex -- Stephanie Lumsden (UC Davis)
  • Our Inherent Sovereignty and the US Federal Recognition Process -- Vanessa Esquivido (UC Davis)
3:45 - 4:30 p.m.
Session 5: Weaving Community, Power, and Consciousness
  • The Rise of the Mexican Corporate State: State Control, Social Resistance and Indigenous Identity Consciousness -- Sandra J. Gutierrez (UC Davis)
  • The Power Of The Word And The Resurgence Of An Indigenous Consciousness -- Silvia Soto (UC Davis)
  • Behind the beautiful houses in Mazahua town in Mexico -- V. Xochitl Juarez-Varela (UC Davis)
4:45 - 5:45 p.m.
Woven Over, Round and Round - An Evening of Sharing and Dreaming
  • Hosted by C.N. Gorman Museum Director and Assoc. Professor Hulleah J. Tsinhnahjinnie (Taskigi/Diné), 
  • Join us for an evening of sharing of creative works by graduate students. Light refreshments served!

Symposium Schedule
Saturday April 27, 2013
Mee Room (Memorial Union) - UC Davis

9:00 - 9:45 a.m.
  • Welcoming Session
  • Opening Blessing
  • Opening Remarks
10:00 - 11:00 a.m.
Session 6: Roots of Culture - Language and Communication
  • Communicating Clearly: Native Languages in The Early American, 1967-1977 -- James Sarmento (UC Davis) and Kristina Casper-Denman (UC Davis)
  • Prospective Aspect in Karuk -- Kayla Carpenter (UC Berkeley)
11:15 - 12:00 p.m.
Session 7: Probing the Trickster...Discourse (Yes, Please!)
  • Dialoging with Ho-Chunk Tricksters on AlterNative Masculinites -- Angel Hinzo (UC Davis)
  • What’s In A Name? – Decolonizing, Reclaiming and Naming “Coyote” -- Cutcha Risling Baldy (UC Davis)
12:15 - 1:30 p.m.
Keynote Luncheon
  • Kateri Masten (Yurok) - Traditional Basket Weaver
  • Marilyn Delgado (Nor Rel Muk Wintu)
1:45 - 2:30 p.m.
Session 8: Engaging Perspectives of Native Knowledge
  • Uncovering Indigenous Cartographies of the Peruvian Amazon: The Role of Native Knowledge in Antonio Raimondi’s 1880 Map -- Cameron L. Johnson (UC Davis)
  • THE STUDY OF MESOAMERICA-AMERICAN SOUTHWEST RELATIONS DURING PRE-COLUMBIAN TIMES. A NATIVE AMERICAN STUDIES’ PERSPECTIVE -- Rodolfo Cruz (UC Davis)
  • Olivia Chilcote (UC Berkeley)
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2012-2013 Symposium Committee:
Vanessa Esquivido
Angel Hinzo
Patricia Killelea
Stephanie Lumsden
Cutcha Risling Baldy
Christine Willie


CONTACT THE COMMITTEE

Our Sponsors:

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UC Davis Native American Studies Department


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Dean of Arts and Humanities (UC Berkeley)

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2013 Submission Form
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2013 Call for Papers
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