2024 Indigenous Scholar Symposium PROGRAM

WOMEN’S COUNCIL OF INDIGENOUS DOCTORAL SCHOLARS presents:

2024 INDIGENOUS SCHOLAR SYMPOSIUM Saturday, April 6, 2024 10:00 A.M. - 4:00 P.M. MST Hayden Library Room #236, Arizona State University, Tempe AZ Virtual Sessions via Zoom: https://asu.zoom.us/j/85220171727

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This event is funded by the generosity of:

Sponsors: Labriola National American Indian Data Center, ASU Library Center for Indian Education ASU Global Futures Laboratory Indigenous Knowledges ASU Graduate and Professional Student Association (GPSA) Office of American Indian Initiatives

Contributors: ASU Graduate and Professional Student Association (GPSA) Innovation Fellowship The Lotus Rose Empolvados Sweets.AZ Bit’ahnii Designs

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AGENDA OVERVIEW - Times are in MST 9:30 am - 10:00 am

Check-in starts

10:00 am - 10:15 am

Welcome

10:15 am - 11:15 am

Research Networking Session *Virtual Session available

11:30 am - 12:30 pm

Fireside Chat with Keynote Speaker, Madonna Thunder Hawk Room #204 *Virtual Session available

12:30 pm - 2:00 pm

Meal with Invited Faculty

2:00 pm - 3:00 pm

Faculty & Student Scholar-Activism Panel *Virtual Session available

3:15 pm - 4:00 pm

Closing Remarks and Mingle

10:00-10:15 AM MST -- Welcome Emcee: Cecilia Marek (Diné, Nimiipuu, Hopi), Ph.D. Student, Gender Studies, School of Social Transformation, Arizona State University; and Co-Founder and Council Delegate for the Women’s Council of Indigenous Doctoral Scholars Opening prayer offered by members of WCIDS Indigenous Land Acknowledgement Introduction to the Women’s Council of Indigenous Doctoral Scholars Welcome Remarks from: ● Jacob Moore, MBA, (Lakota/Dakota/Akimel O'odham/Tohono O’odham), Vice President and Special Advisor to the President on American Indian Affairs, Office of University Affairs, Arizona State University ● Dr. Marisa Duarte (Xicanx, Pascua Yaqui Tribe), Associate Professor, Justice and Social Inquiry, School of Social Transformation, Arizona State University

10:15-11:15 AM MST -- Research Networking Session The Research Networking Session aims to create a space for Indigenous graduate students to connect, share their research interests, and discuss topics related to doctoral studies in various fields. Through speed networking-style rounds, participants will have the opportunity to meet and learn about the research of their peers. This session provides a platform for students at any stage of their doctoral journey to 2024 Indigenous Scholar Symposium - Program

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network, seek advice, and build a supportive community. The session will conclude with a group share, allowing participants to reflect on their conversations and insights gained during the networking session.

Moderators: Name (Tribe, Tribe), Title, Program, School, University

11:30 AM - 12:30 PM MST -- Fireside Chat with Keynote Speaker Virtual Session Available “Learning about Indigenous Activism: A Conversation with Madonna Thunder Hawk” Introduction by: Annabell Bowen-Miller (Diné/Onöndowa’ga), Director - American Indian Initiatives, and Ph.D. Student, Justice and Social Inquiry in the School of Transformation, Arizona State University Moderator: Cecilia Marek (Diné, Nimiipuu, Hopi), Ph.D. Student, Gender Studies, School of Social Transformation, Arizona State University

Madonna Thunder Hawk is Oohenumpa Lakota from the Cheyenne River Sioux Reservation. She is a long-time community organizer with a range of experience in American Indian rights protection, cultural preservation, economic development, environmental justice and Lakota social reclamation. In the late 1960s she became a leader in the American Indian Movement (AIM). While involved in the national and international arena for Native sovereignty, Madonna has anchored much of her organizing at the community level. In 1974, she established the "We Will Remember Survival School" for Indian youth whose parents were facing federal charges or who had been drop-outs or “push-outs” from the educational system.

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She co-founded Women of All Red Nations (WARN) in 1978 and also helped organize the Black Hills Protection Committee (later the HeSapa Institute) whose goal is to protect the many sacred sites within the region's treaty lands. She has served as the tribal liaison for the Lakota People's Law Project, fighting the illegal removal of Native children from tribal nations into the state foster care system. More recently, Madonna established the Wasagiya Najin "Grandmothers' Group" on Cheyenne River Reservation to assist in rebuilding kinship networks and advocating for children. She currently works for the Red Road Institute, as their Director of Grassroots Organizing, and serves on Warrior Women Project's Matriarchs Council.

12:30-2:00 PM MST -- Lunch for in-person attendees Lunch to follow the fireside chat. Lunch is catered by The Rez, An Urban Eatery.

2:00-3:00 PM MST -- Faculty & Student Scholar-Activism Panel Virtual Session Available “Navigating the Role of Scholar-Activism in Indigenous Research” The term “activism” encompasses a broad spectrum of activities ranging from organizing and mobilizing social movements to governmental and non-governmental relations as well as direct work within communities. For Indigenous scholars seeking to improve the lives of their tribal communities, activism often comes in the form of scholarship and a desire to center Indigenous voices within research to rewrite and reright narratives about Indigenous peoples that historically exploit and disparage them.1 This panel brings together Indigenous faculty and graduate students from a variety of disciplines to discuss the challenges and commitments of “scholar-activism”. Panelists will answer questions about how they navigate their roles as Indigenous researchers in and outside of academia, and offer their insights on potentialities and practical applications of scholar-activism within Indigenous research.

Linda Tuhiwai Smith, Decolonizing Methodologies: Research and Indigenous Peoples, 2nd ed.

(New York: Zed Books: Palgrave Macmillan, 2012), 29.

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Moderator: Alycia de Mesa (Apache of Chihuahua, Mexico), Ph.D. Candidate, Human & Social Dimensions of Science & Technology, ASU School for the Future of Innovation in Society Panelists include: ● Elisha Charley (Nihok’aa Diyin Dine’é; Navajo), Ph.D. Student, Urban Planning, School of Geographical Science and Urban Planning, Arizona State University ● Dr. Jerome Jeffery Clark (Diné), Assistant Professor, English & Indigenous Studies, School of Humanities, Arts, & Cultural Studies, Arizona State University ● Frida Espinosa Cárdenas (Transterritorial Mestiza Mexicana & Mother), PhD Candidate, Global Health, School of Human Evolution and Social Change, Arizona State University ● Dr. Cueponcaxochitl D. Moreno Sandoval (Caxcan/Xicanx/Izkalohteka), Associate Professor of Ethnic Studies, Stanislaus State

Scholar-Activist Panelists Elisha Charley (Nihok’aa Diyin Dine’é; Navajo) is a Ph.D. Student in the Urban Planning program in the School of Geographical Science and Urban Planning at Arizona State University.

Her research includes Indigenous Planning centering Nihok’aa Diyin Dine’é (human walking on the surface; Navajo) and land use policies that impact access to housing under the fiduciary relationship between the U.S. Federal government and the Navajo Nation government.

She can be reached at echarle@asu.edu

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Scholar-Activist Panelists Dr. Jerome Jeffery Clark (Diné), is an Assistant Professor in English & Indigenous Studies in the School of Humanities, Arts, & Cultural Studies at Arizona State University.

His research interests are Indigenous futurism, Decolonization, and Diné Stories/Literature.

He can be reached at jerome.clark@asu.edu

Frida Espinosa Cárdenas (Transterritorial Mestiza Mexicana & Mother) is a PhD Candidate in the Global Health PhD program in the School of Human Evolution and Social Change at Arizona State University.

Her research interests center around birth justice. She implements community-driven research and decolonizing research methods to co-create a platform and uplift the work of culturally-rooted birthworkers (midwives and doulas) in Arizona and her ancestral homelands in Central Mexico.

She can be reached out fcespino@asu.edu

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Scholar-Activist Panelists Dr. Cueponcaxochitl D. Moreno Sandoval (Caxcan/Xicanx/Izkalohteka), is an Associate Professor of Ethnic Studies with an emphasis in Native American and Mexican Indigenous Studies at Stanislaus State.

They are passionate about the possibilities of activating decolonial ancestral identities as agents of change. They examine how ancestral knowledge systems can inform/be informed across three research studies: 1) Across California Native Landscapes, 2) Planting Son Jarocho/Fandango culture, and 3) Ancestral Computing for Sustainability.

They can be reached at sandoval27@csustan.edu

3:15-4:00 PM MST -- Closing Remarks & Mingle Closing remarks: J’Shon Lee (White Mountain Apache), Ph.D. Student, Learning, Literacies, and Technologies, Mary Lou Fulton Teachers College, Arizona State University We invite you to hang out, mingle, and strengthen our community.

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Indigenous Scholar Symposium - Planning Committee: Edwina Bailey (Choctaw Nation of Oklahoma), Master's student, Addiction Psychology, ASU College of Liberal Arts and Sciences Nicholet Deschine Parkhurst (Standing Rock Sioux, Diné), Ph.D. Student, Justice & Social Inquiry, ASU School of Social Transformation & Ph.D. Candidate, Critical Indigenous Studies, Macquarie University Mirtha Garcia Reyes (Mexicana), Ph.D. Candidate, Anthropology, ASU School of Human Evolution and Social Change J’Shon Lee (White Mountain Apache), Ph.D. Student, Learning, Literacies, and Technologies, ASU Mary Lou Fulton Teachers College Cecilia Marek (Diné, Nimiipuu, Hopi), Ph.D. Student, Gender Studies, ASU School of Social Transformation Alycia de Mesa (Apache of Chihuahua, Mexico), Ph.D. Candidate, Human & Social Dimensions of Science & Technology, ASU School for the Future of Innovation in Society Heather Romero Mercieca (Caxcan), Ph.D. Student, Bioengineering, University of California, Los Angeles Heaven Sepulveda (Salt River Pima-Maricopa Indian Community), Ed.D. Student, Leadership and Innovation, ASU Mary Lou Fulton Teachers College

Women’s Council of Indigenous Doctoral Scholars - Council Delegates: Mirtha Garcia Reyes (Mexicana), Ph.D. Candidate, Anthropology, ASU School of Human Evolution and Social Change J’Shon Lee (White Mountain Apache), Ph.D. Student, Learning, Literacies, and Technologies, ASU Mary Lou Fulton Teachers College Cecilia Marek (Diné, Nimiipuu, Hopi), Ph.D. Student, Gender Studies, ASU School of Social Transformation Alycia de Mesa (Apache of Chihuahua, Mexico), Ph.D. Candidate, Human & Social Dimensions of Science & Technology, ASU School for the Future of Innovation in Society Nicholet Deschine Parkhurst (Standing Rock Sioux, Diné), Ph.D. Student, Justice & Social Inquiry, ASU School of Social Transformation & Ph.D. Candidate, Critical Indigenous Studies, Macquarie University

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The Women’s Council of Indigenous Doctoral Scholars (WCIDS) supports and fosters Indigenous doctoral students at any stage of their PhD journey.

WCIDS is a graduate student organization based at Arizona State University but membership is open to all students.

Follow us online: Instagram: @Indigedocscholars Facebook: @WomensCouncilofIndigenousDoctoralScholars

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