Daily Highlights

Monday, June 8: Sovereignty & Self-Governance

Guest Presenter: Shannon Tooke

• How tribal sovereignty strengthens democratic principles
• Found poetry with tribal treaties
• How Utah tribes stand for self-governance
• Questions of tribal membership and belonging
• Lesson plan/project development activity
• EVENING: Dinner with artifacts from the NEHMA

Tuesday, June 9: Treaty Rights & Activism

Guest Presenters: Charlotta Lacy, Darren Parry

• Explore how various tribal organizations advocate for their rights: fish-ins and whale hunts, fighting land overuse and pollution, building schools, casinos, tribal regalia at graduations, etc.
• The Religious Freedoms Act
• Language Revitalization
• EVENING: Keynote Lecture (open to the public) Speaker: Charlotta Lacy

Wednesday, June 10: Cultural Theft & Restoration

 Guest Presenters: Molly Cannon, Shannon Erickson

• Repatriation of tribal remains and artifacts
• Indian Boarding Schools truth and reconciliation
• Remembering the Intermountain Indian School in Brigham City

Thursday, June 11: Land Back Movements

Guest Presenter: Reagan Wystalucy

• Explore art and poetry about connections to land
• Land Back movements
• Negotiating Communal Property: Home Site Leases on the Navajo Nation
• Headrights and fishing rights
• Osage murders over oil fortunes
• Ecological Activism: Braiding Sweetgrass
• Native science as restoration

Friday, June 12: Images & Stereotypes

• Negotiating mascots
• Fighting appropriation with fashion
• Taking back Native voices in film and television
• Examine children’s books by Native authors and outsiders: the pros and cons of the #OwnVoices movement