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Indigenous People's Day -- Sovereignty and Indigeneity in the Big Ten: Telling Our Stories

Event Type
Lecture
Sponsor
Sponsored by the Big Ten Native Alliance
Virtual
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Date
Oct 12, 2020   3:00 - 4:30 pm  
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Please register by Friday, October 9 to receive Zoom link.
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American Indian Studies Program

Join us this Indigenous Peoples' Day for a collaborative panel discussion led by Native researchers and practitioners in the Big Ten. The panel will focus on Native experiences in academia, Indigenous led research and pedagogy, and how these are reflected in the national political and social climates.

If you will need disability-related accommodations to participate in this program, please contact Nichole Boyd. Early requests are strongly encouraged to allow sufficient time for your access needs to be met.

Speakers:

Lisa Aguilar
Assistant Professor of Counseling and Educational Psychology
Indiana University Bloomington

Lisa Aguilar is a recent graduate from Mizzou’s school psychology program. She has worked closely with small tribal schools in Alaska and North Dakota both in an applied and research capacity. Lisa has published in research and practitioner focused journals, presented at local and national conferences, and contributed chapters to various school psychology texts. Her research interests include increasing academic success for Indigenous youth in schools and communities, multicultural competency training for graduate students and professionals, and academic interventions as a form of prevention and culturally responsive education.

Jenny L. Davis
Associate Professor of Anthropology and American Indian Studies
Director of the American Indian Studies Program
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

Jenny L. Davis is a citizen of the Chickasaw Nation. Her research focuses on contemporary Indigenous language revitalization; Indigenous gender and sexuality; and collaborative methods, ethics, and repatriation in Indigenous research. Her research has been published in the Annual Review of Anthropology, American Anthropologist, Gender & Language, Language in Society, and the Review of International American Studies (RIAS), among others. She is the recipient of two book prizes: the 2019 Beatrice Medicine Award from the Association for the Study of American Indian Literatures for Talking Indian: Identity and Language Revitalization in the Chickasaw Renaissance (University of Arizona Press, 2018) and the 2014 Ruth Benedict Book Prize from the Association for Queer Anthropology and the American Anthropological Association for her co-edited volume Queer Excursions: Retheorizing Binaries in Language, Gender, and Sexuality (Oxford University Press, 2014).

Bayley J. Marquez
Assistant Professor in the Department of American Studies
University of Maryland

Bayley J. Marquez is an Indigenous scholar from the Santa Ynez Band of Chumash Indians. She earned her doctorate in Education as a part of the Social and Cultural Studies program from the University of California, Berkeley in 2019. Her research examines the role of schools in settler colonialism, antiblackness, and imperialism and particularly how forms of teaching traveled and changed in different racialized and colonial contexts. Her archival research on Black and Indigenous industrial schools has been supported by the College of Arts and Humanities Junior Faculty Fellowship, the Ford Foundation, and the Joseph A. Myers Center for Research on Native American Issues. Her current book project, titled “Teaching Slavery and Settlement: Plantation Pedagogies in Currents of Conquest,” examines the role of industrial education in the production of settler colonial space, structuring the “afterlife of slavery,” and the racialization of imperial subjects.

Additional names will be added as speakers are confirmed.

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