OCTOBER 28-30, 2004

Lipman Room, Barrows Hall
University of California Berkeley

As we begin the 21st century, political recognition – within the context of great population displacements and current globalization processes – has been and continues to be a primary locus of struggle for Indigenous nations, international confederations, national, regional, and local organizations, and Indigenous persons at large. In striving for recognition, Indigenous peoples have made a critique of the terms of recognition a critical part of the political struggle. Recognizing legal and racial identities as legacies of imperialism, Indigenous activists and scholars are probing the ways that individual-centered western concepts embody gender- and culture-specific norms of citizenship. Indigenous groups are reimagining, challenging, and inventing new modes of political activism that are reshaping the contours of political recognition. Equally importantly, these re/memberings and reimaginings are taking a multiplicity of paths and forms: legal, cultural, artistic, academic, socio-political, and economic.

The purpose of this conference is to provide a forum for Indigenous scholars from a broad range of disciplines both from within California and from other parts of the United States, including Hawai’i as well as the Solomon Islands, Mexico, Peru, Bolivia, Canada and New Zealand to address and reflect upon the most recent forms of “Indigeneity” and its politics of re/membering Indigenous identity in a global and local context. The conference will be organized around panels addressing specific sites in which Indigeneity is being played out. The panels are tied together by several interwoven themes: alternative meanings of sovereignty; the politics of inclusion and exclusion; critical traditions of Indigenous local knowledge; and the essentialism-anti-essentialism dialectic. .

Keynote Speakers:
Leroy Little Bear, Native American Studies, University of Lethbridge, Canada
Wilma Mankiller, Former Principal Chief of the Cherokee Nation
Linda Tuhiwai Smith, University of Auckland, New Zealand

THURSDAY, OCTOBER 28
Lipman Room, Barrows Hall

6:30 pm/Opening Reception

7:30 pm/Opening Keynote Talk
Leroy Little Bear, University of Lethbridge, Canada

FRIDAY, OCTOBER 29
Lipman Room, Barrows Hall

8:30-9:00 am/Coffee and Registration

9:00-9:15 am/Welcome and Introduction

9:15-11:00 am/Panel 1
Indigenizing and Claiming Culture

Organizer: Steve Crum, UC Davis
Chair: Majel Boxer, UC Berkeley

Presenters:
Rodolfo Meyer, Native American Studies, UC Davis
Steve Crum, Native American Studies, UC Davis
Angela Wilson, History, Arizona State University

Commentator: Tom Biolsi, Anthropology, Portland State University

11:15-1:00 pm/Panel 2
Mapping Our World: Mind, Memory, and the Science of the Sacred

Organizer: Nimachia Hernadez, UCB
Chair: Melissa Nelson, American Indian Studies, San Francisco State University

Presenters:
David Welchman Gegeo, Liberal Studies, CSU Monterey Bay
Nimachia Hernandez, Native American Studies, UCB
Manulani Meyer, Education, University of Hawaii-Hilo

Commentator: Leroy Little Bear, University of Lethbridge

1:00-2:45 pm/Lunch Break

3:00-4:45 pm/Panel 3
Shared Experiences of Indigeneity in a Global Context

Organizers: Robin De Lugan, UCB, and Guillermo Delgado, UC Santa Cruz
Chair: Robin De Lugan, Anthropology, UCB

Presenters:
Victoria Bomberry, Native American Studies, UC Riverside
Guillermo Delgado, Latin American and Latino Studies, UC Santa Cruz
Silvia Escarcega, Anthropology, DePaul University

Commentator: Triloki Pandey, UC Santa Cruz

5:00-6:30 pm/Keynote Talk and Refreshments
Wilma Mankiller, Former Principal Chief of the Cherokee Nation

SATURDAY, OCTOBER 30
Lipman Room, Barrows Hall

8:30-9:00 am/Coffee Service

9:00-10:45 am/Panel 4
Historicizing and Dehistoricizing Gender

Organizer: Renya Ramirez, UC Santa Cruz
Chair: Phenocia Bauerle, Education, UCB

Presenters:
Renya Ramirez, American Studies, UC Santa Cruz
Andrea Smith, Women’s Studies, University of Michigan
Jennifer Denetdale, History, University of New Mexico

Commentator: Joanne Barker, American Indian Studies, San Francisco State University

11:00-12:45 pm/Panel 5
Nation to Nation

Organizer: Melinda Micco, Mills College
Chair: TBA

Presenters:
Melinda Micco, Ethnic Studies, Mills College
Edward Valandra, Native American Studies, UC Davis
Ines Talamantez, Native American Studies UC Santa Barbara

Commentator: Jo Carrillo, Hastings School of Law

12:45-2:15 pm/Lunch Break

2:30-4:15 pm/Panel 6
Critical Themes and Emerging Issues

Organizer: John Brown Childs, UC Santa Cruz, and Majel Boxer, UCB
Chair: Amy Lonetree, American Indian Studies, San Francisco State University

Panelists:
John Brown Childs, Sociology, UC Santa Cruz
Stefano Varese, Native American Studies, UC Davis
Eva Marie Garroutte, Sociology, Boston College

Commentator: Jack Forbes, Native American Studies, UC Davis

4:30-5:30 pm/Closing Keynote Talk
Linda Tuhiwai Smith, University of Auckland, New Zealand

6:00 pm/Closing Reception