The conference will address the situation of indigenous rights and the protection of resources and the environment from the perspective of scholars, N.G.O.s and grassroots activists, and will include both specifically U.S. speakers and some speakers from Central and South America and Australia.
Participants
Keynote Speaker:
Ward L. Churchill, University of Colorado at Boulder
The Genocide Convention as a Lens in Examining US Indian Relations
Tony Birch, University of Melbourne
‘Who are these half castes, these quarter castes and octoroons?’: Repressing Aboriginal Identity in Twentieth Century Victoria
Duane Champagne, American Indian Studies Center, UCLA
Renewing Tribal Governments: Uniting Political Theory and Sacred Communities
Darren Ranco, University of California, Berkeley
Squeezing the Frog: Problems in Implementing Tribal Environmental Standards
Haunani-Kay Trask, University of Hawaii
Aloha `Aina: Hawaiian Claims to Care for the Land
Rebecca Tsosie, Executive Director, Indian Legal Program
Arizona State University, College of Law
“The Politics of Environmental Conflict: Public Lands and Native Nations”
Other invited speakers from Central and South America.
Poetry Reading at Conference –
Simon Ortiz
Janet McAdams