ABORIGINAL AND NON-ABORIGINAL ALLIANCES AND COALITIONS FOR INDIGENOUS RIGHTS, SOCIAL AND ENVIRONMENTAL JUSTICE

CONFERENCE EVOLVING PROGRAM

THURSDAY, NOVEMBER, 2, 2006

11:00 am to 9:00 pm Registration Peter Gzowski College.

1:30 am to 4:30 pm Trip to the Peterborough Petroglyphs Sacred Site.

7 :00 pm to 9:00 pm Opening Session, Elder Doug Williams

Keynote Speakers: Sam George , Kenneth Deer (Eastern Door, Ad Hoc Alliance on UN Declaration of Indigenous Rights), Jennifer Preston-Howe (Canadian Friends, Ad Hoc Alliance on UN Declaration of Indigenous Rights)

Social Reception
Gzowski Lecture Hall 114

FRIDAY, NOVEMBER, 3, 2006


9:00 am to 9:40 am Opening Plenary: Elder Shirley Williams
Official Welcome in Wenjack Theatre, Otonobee College.

9:40 am to 10:40 am Small Group Introductions. First Round of Intros.

10:40 am to 11:00 am Break

11:00 am to 12:00 pm Second Round of Intros.

12:00 pm to 1:00 pm Lunch

1:00 pm to 2:00 pm Plenary: Keynote Speaker: Beverly Jacobs (President of the Native Women’s Association of Canada) – Sisters in Spirit Campaign.

2:30 pm to 3:45 pm Collective Sharing of Experiences. Facilitated Session in Small Groups.

3:45 pm to 4:00 pm Break

4:00 pm to 5:30 pm Various Presenters: Parallel Sessions. JUMP TO SESSIONS*

7:00 pm to 9:30 pm Plenary: Evening Panels JUMP TO PANELS

Please note: For detailed information on sessions, keynote speakers and abstracts vist the Abstracts page. JUMP TO

SATURDAY, NOVEMBER, 4, 2006


9:00 am to 9:15 am Opening by Elder - Plenary

9:15 am to 10:15 am Plenary: Keynote Speaker: Jake Swamp, Mohawk Elder and Founder of Tree of Peace Society

10:15 am to 10:30 am Break

10:30 am to 12:00 pm Various Presenters: Parallel Sessions. JUMP TO SESSIONS*

12:00 pm to 1:00 pm Lunch

1:00 pm to 2:00 pm Plenary: Keynote Speaker Judy Da Silva – Grassy Narrows.

2:00 pm to 3:30 pm Collective Sharing of Experiences. Facilitated Session in Small Groups

3:30 pm to 4:45 pm Break

3:45 pm to 5:15 pm Various Presenters: Parallel Sessions. JUMP TO SESSIONS*

6:00 pm Dinner

8:00 pm to 9:30 pm Indigenous Dance Performance at Nozhem Theatre—Michael Greyeyes and Santee Smith (The Threshing Floor...A Duet); Carol Greyeyes (Indian Blue...Dance Theatre) VIEW POSTERS

SUNDAY, NOVEMBER, 5, 2006


9:00 a.m. Opening: Elder Doug Williams; Facilitated Session on What We Have Learned or “Best Practices” in Working Together. Discussion on Future Directions – Building networks for future communications.

12:00 p.m. Closing Ceremony.

 
SCHEDULE OF PRESENTATIONS & PANEL PRESENTATIONS
FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 3, 2006
Friday Presentations 4:00 p.m. to 5:30 p.m.
Name
Title of panel
Location of research
Affiliation
Room
Caitlyn Vernon New Relationship, Old Relations? Seeking Transformative Change in British Columbia
British Columbia
York University - Masters of Environmental Studies
GZC
112
Lily Pol Neveu Beyond Recognition and Coexistence: Living Together
Northern Ontario and Quebec
Universite Laval - Masters in
Philosophy
GZC
112
Friday Panel Presentations 4:00 p.m. to 5:30 p.m.
Name
Title of panel
Location of research
Affiliation
Room
Bev Jacobs
Theresa Ducharme
Ed Bianchi
Cheryl Hotchkiss
Sisters in Spirit Campaign
Canada
KAIROS, Amnesty Int., NWAC.
GZC
114
Jessie Sutherland
Jonn Ord
Katsitsionni Fox
Dorothy Christian
Victoria Freeman
Community Dialogues and the "Reconciliation" Movement in Canada
Canada
Various
GZC
108
Deborah Barndt
Laura Reinsborough

Jesús Alemancia
Decolonizing Art, Education and Research: Indigenous/non-Indigenous Dialogue in the VIVA! Project
Panama
York University. Faculty of Environmental Studies
Kuna (Panama)
GZC
115

Marie Leger

Craig Benjamin

Jennifer Preston-Howe

Kenneth Deer

U.N. Declaration of Indigenous Rights
Canada

Aboriginal representative, Canadian Friends, Rights and Democracy

Amnesty International

Ad Hoc Alliance on UN Declaration of Indigenous Rights

Ad Hoc Alliance on UN Declaration of Indigenous Rights

GZC
117
Friday Panel Presentations 7:00 p.m. to 9:00 p.m.
Name
Title of panel
Location of research
Affiliation
Room
Justin B. Richland
Patricia Sekaquaptewa
Making Aboriginal Justice Work for Aboriginal Peoples: The Nakwatsvewat Institute
US Southwest Hopi
UC Irvine. The Nakwatsvewat
Institute.
GZC
114

Gkisedtanamoogk

Margaret Tusz-King

Our Home and Native land - Upholding Treaty Rights
Canada
East Coast
The Aboriginal Rights Coalition—Atlantic (ARCA)
GZC
114
SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 4, 2006
Saturday Presentations 10:30 a.m. to 12:00 p.m.
Name
Title of panel
Location of research
Affiliation
Room
Victoria Freeman
Dorothy Christian

Some Thoughts about becoming Allies: The History of a Friendship
Canada
Turning-Point. Okanagan/
Sepwepemc/Chinese, Vancouver
BC
GZC
108
Jafri Beenash
Coalition Building Possibilities:
Aboriginal Peoples and Peoples
of Colour.
Canada
MA Candidate, Sociology & Equity Studies, OISE/UT
GZC
105
Brandon Whitney the Political Ecology of the Indigenous Discourse in the Ecuadorian Amazon
Ecuador
Yale University - Master of Environmental Science Candidate
GZC
106
Daystar/Rosalie Jones
Bobkoff, Ned
Marrie Mumford
Cross Cultural Collaborations: Friend or Foe?
International
UC Riverside
and Trent U
GZC
112
Thierry Drapeau A "Glocality" in the Making: Learning from the Experience of Resistance of the Secwepemc Watershed Committee
British Columbia
Laval University
GZC
105
Tanya Chung
Tiam Fook
Articulating Decolonized Collaborative Conservation Through Amerindian Knowledges
Guyana
York University - PhD Candidate in Environmental Studies GZC
106
Saturday Panel Presentations 10:30 a.m. to 12:00 p.m.
Rick Wallace
Lenore Keeshig Tobias
Rick Bauman
Ken Luckhardt
Marilyn Struthers
David McLaren
Winning Fishing Rights: The Success and Challenges of Building Grassroots Relations between the Chippewas of Nawash and their Allies (Unions, Neighbours and Faith-based Groups)
Chippewa of
Nawash—
Northern
Ontario.
Various
GZC
117
Lyanne Quirt
Adam Barker
Suzy Myskow
Three Presentations
Canada
University of Victoria - Indigenous Governance Master's Program
GZC
115
Lynne Davis
Heather Shpuniarsky
The Spirit of Relationships: What We Have Learned About Aboriginal/non-Aboriginal Alliances and Coalitions
Canada
Trent University - Indigenous Studies Program
GZC
103

Robin Buyers

Ann Pohl

Building Alliances to Build Alliances
Ontario

Christian Peacemaker Teams

Breaking Barriers Resource Centre (New Brunswick)

(GS)
Saturday Presentations 3:45 p.m. to 5:15 p.m.
Kevin Fitzmaurice Are White People Obsolete?
Canada
Laurentian University
—Trent University
GZC
103
Ravi De Costa Co-operative transnationalism and Indigenous peoples
Australia
Political Studies department - Trent University. PhD student.
GZC
105
T'hohahoken
Michael Doxtator
Environmental resistance through coalitions: the case of SNAP
Ontario
Six Nations
McGill University
GZC
345
William Woodworth
Iroquoian Condolence practiced on a civic scale.
Toronto
Beacon of Ancestors Foundation
GZC
345
Saturday Panel Presentations 3:45 p.m. to 5:15 p.m.
Jan Watson

Jacqueline House

Tom Keefer
Identifying and Building Support for Indigenous Sovereignty within Non-Native Communities: the "Community Friends" initiative in Caledonia
Caledonia, Ontario
Canada

Caledonia resident and member of CAW Local 555.

Six Nations resident and active participant in the reclamation site.

Ph.D. candidate in political science at York University and member of CUPE Local 3093.

GZC
114
Adolphus Cameron
Jennifer Rasmussen
Rory McMillan
Working Together on Common Ground: The Grand Council Treaty #3/City of Kenora Partnership
Northwestern
Ontario
Treaty #3 & Kenora. Treaty and Municipal partners.
GZC
115

Samuel R. Cook
Rhyannon Berkowitz
Jeffrey Hantman

Powhatan Red Cloud
Owen

Setting the Record Straight,: Collaborative Efforts between Virigina First Nations and State Academic Institutions to Re- claim indigenous History and advance indigenous Agendas.
US—Virginia
First Nations
Dept of Interdisciplinary Studies - Virginia Tech
GZC
117
Roy Wright-Tekastiaks
Luc Lainé
Kinfolk, Councillors, & Diplomats :symbolic kinship within & between nations in Indigenous (e.g. Iroquoian) relations with other societies
Canada
(Haudenosaunee)
Various
GZC
106
Saturday Workshop 3:45 p.m. to 5:15 p.m.
Jessie Sutherland Worldview Skills Workshop
(in the Gathering Space)
Canada
Worldview Skills
GZC
(GS)
Note: GZC - Gzwoski College           (GS) - the Gathering Space


  
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