"TELLING OUR OWN STORIES: SELF-DETERMINATION IN DATA AND RESEARCH"
REGIONAL NAISA CONFERENCE AGENDA

MAY 30-31, 2022

DAY 1 MAY 30, 2022 (EST)

9:00am - 12:00pm

Anishinaabe Kendaasiwin Institute (AKI) Naming Ceremony and Launch
(in-person by invitation)

1:00pm - 3:00pm

OPENING AND KEYNOTE ADDRESS

Aimée Craft, Dibaajimowinan: Restorying Ourselves through Self-Determination in Research

Session Chair: Lana Ray

Break

3:15pm - 4:15pm

Using Dadibaajim Workshop, Helen Olsen Agger

Session Chair: Michelle Spadoni

Kitchen Table Discussion: What Are Our Expectations for Research in Our Communities and on Our Lands? (Indigenous Only Space)

Facilitators: Sherry Copenance, Lana Ray & Céline Wick

Identifying Anishinaabe Standards for Evaluating Indigenous Persons Courts, Karen Drake, Bahar Banaei, Carmela Murdocca, Autumn Johnson & Matt Stone

Building Our Inner Fires: Gikinoo'amaadiwin (Gaining Knowledge) with First Nations Leadership, Randi Ray

Session Chair: Alycia Benson

DAY 2 MAY 31, 2021 (EST)

 

Theme 1: Dibaajimowin

Theme 2: Mino-Bimaadiziwin

Theme 3: Indigenous/Settler Relations

9:00am - 10:00am

Colonial Archives and Community Histories: Reading Records Together Across the Treaty Line Workshop, Travis Hay & Michele Solomon

Session Chair: Céline Wick

If you have Seen One Community, you have Seen One Community: A Northern Ontario First Nations Epidemiology Partnership Addressing the Unique Needs of its Communities, Maureen Gustafson & Christina Vlahopoulos

Wellness and Wiidooktaadyang: Moving Anishinaabe Knowledge into Self-Determining Action, Cindy Peltier with Louela Manankil-Rankin, Karey McCullough, & the Nipissing First Nation Advisory Committee

Session Chair: Anita Vaillancourt

Indigenist Research as Transformation from a Color Settler Perspective, Ranjan Datta

My Stories of Indigenous Land-based Learning: A Decolonial Autoethnography of a Racialized Woman, Jebunnessa Chapola

Session Chair: Jess Jurgutis

Break

10:15am - 11:15am

The Big Michif Dream: Enacting Love & Healing Through Visiting, Céline Wick

Old Texts, New Narratives, and the Self-Determining Archive, Susan Paterson Glover

Session Chair: Kristin Burnett

Tapipano toohaan: The impact of Organized Basketball and the Stories of Fort Albany’s Players and their Community Supporters, Justin Sackaney with Cindy Peltier, Colin McLaren, & Mark Bruner

Igniting the Spirit: Healing and Self-Determination through Indigenous Dance, Sandra Lamouche

Session Chair: Alex Stargratt

Indigenous Environmental Knowledge & Successful Allyship Workshop, Elder Dorothy Taylor, Sacred Water Circle

Session Chair: Lana Ray

Break

11:30am - 12:30pm

Indigenous Science: Reinterpreting Data to Reclaim and Rewrite Indigenous History, Paulette Steeves

Session Chair: Tashya Orasi

Kitchen Table Discussion: How do We Exercise our Responsibilities and Rights to Indigenous Self- Determination in Research? (Indigenous Only Space)

Facilitators: Dorothy Taylor, Lana Ray & Céline Wick

Kitchen Table Discussion: What must Settlers and Settler Institutions do to Meet Indigenous Defined Expectations for Research?
(Settlers Encouraged to Attend)

Facilitators: Kristin Burnett, Jess Jurgutis & Alex Stargratt

Lunch Break

1:30pm - 2:30pm

Kaandossiwin (2nd ed), How We Come to Know: Indigenous Re-Search Methodologies Book Launch With Kathleen Absolon (Minogiizhigokwe)

Session Chair: Holly Prince

Break

2:45pm - 4:30pm

PANEL DISCUSSION AND CLOSING

Traditional Perspectives on Data Management and Governance Panel With Darren Courchene & Edward Mandamin

Session Chair: Lana Ray