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Note: Educators will receive 14.5 Clock Hours for attending the Honoring the Heritage of the Plateau People: Past, Present, & Future Conference.

CONFERENCE
Wednesday, September 29, 2004
7:30 am

Buffet Breakfast - Sponsored by The Native American Recruitment and Retention Program WSU College of Nursing and the Department of Comparative Ethnic Studies.

Session
Time
Session - Location
Presentation Title - Speaker
Status
8:30 am
Palouse Falls Intertribal Drum and Veterans
Opening Flag Ceremony and Honor Song
8:45 am
WSU Leaders and Native American Advisory Board Members
Welcome, WSU Leaders and Advisory Board
9:00 am
Antone Minthorn, Umatilla
Opening Presentation: The Vision for the Creation of a Plateau Center for American Indian Studies
9:30 am
Break
9:45 am
Breakout Session 1 - Cascade 123
Culture and History
"And Things Would Never Be The Same": Wilfred, Geraldine, and Wendell Jim
9:45 am
Breakout Session 1 - Cascade 125
Culture and History

"Grand Opening of the NMAI": P. Fabela, M. Skalan-Malatare

"Nez Perce National Historic Trail": S. McFarland

9:45 am
Breakout Session 1 - Cascade 127
Culture and History

"Gender Equality on the Colville Reservation": L. Ackerman

"The Woman Has Something To Do Every Season: A Look At Gender Equality on the Umatilla Indian Reservation": Feather Sams-Huesties

"Female Drumming in the Coeur d'Alene Tribe: A Collaborative Study": J. Gatzke

9:45 am
Breakout Session 1 - CUB 212
Health and Wellness

"The Native American Boarding School Experience: Healing Historical Trauma: Reclaiming a Nez Perce Family History": R. Paul

9:45 am
Breakout Session 1 - CUB 214-216
Language Preservation
"Yakama Language Teachers: Teaching to Learn, Learning to Teach": M. Kindness, L. Wilkens, R. Howard
9:45 am
Breakout Session 1 -
CUB Auditorium
Film Series
Hand Game, produced by award winning filmamker, Lawrence Johnson, examines history and continuing importance of the popular native game of chance, also known as the stick game. The film documents the play of the hand game across the Northwest, including scenes filmed the Blackfeet, Coeur d'Alene, Crow, Flathead, Makah, Spokane, and Walker River, reservations. Hand Game is a funny, informative, and compelling portrait of the vitality of native heritage
11:00 am
Break
11:15 am
Breakout Session 2 - Cascade 123
Culture and History
"The Place of Yakama History in Contemporary Yakama Culture": G. Sohappy-Wiltse, L. Sohappy
11:15 am
Breakout Session 2 - Cascade 125
Culture and History

"The Cowlitz at Cathlapotle": Mike Iyall,

"The Nez Perce Tribe vs. Elite-Directed Development on the Lower Snake River: The Struggle to Breech the Dams and Save Salmon": Ben Colombi

11:15 am
Breakout Session 2 - Cascade 127
Culture and History

"A Medicine Tree Legacy": C. Merrell

"Canoes on the Columbia Plateau: A Survey of Museum Collections": B. Chenowith

"Defining A Culture Area": M. Charle

11:15 am
Breakout Session 2 - CUB 212
Health and Wellness

"Pudget Sound Traditional Diet and Diabetes: Collaborative Research Between Tribal Members, Healthcare Workers, and Archaeologists": P. Lape

"Diabetes Issues and Health Care Delivery": B. Wright

11:15 am
Breakout Session 2 - CUB 214-216
Language Preservation

"Update on 1st Peoples Language Committee Activities": M Whelshula, L. Wynekoop

"Language Shift and Revitalization: Applying the Concepts to the Yakama People of the Northwest": G. Sutterlict

12:30 pm Joe Pakootas
Keynote Speaker
Lunch and Keynote Address
2:00 pm
Breakout Session 3 - Cascade 123
Culture and History
"Thirty Years of CRM by the CCT": J. Sirois, C. Pleasants, J. Cook, G. Moura
2:00 pm
Breakout Session 3 - Cascade 125
Culture and History
"The Parfleche Project": A. McCormack, E. Greene, A. Tayor, A. Miles
2:00 pm
Breakout Session 3 - Cascade 127
Culture and History

"Archie Phinne: An American Indian Odysey": W. Willard

"Starr Maxwell": D. Mallickan

2:00 pm
Breakout Session 3 - CUB 212
Health and Wellness
"Reserach Into the Dangers That Military Facilities Pose for Native Americans": G. Hooks
2:00 pm
Breakout Session 3 - CUB 214-216
Language Preservation

"Kootenai Language Preservation Program"

"Salish Language Immersion School": T. Pete. M. Sondoval

2:00 pm
Breakout Session 3 -
CUB Auditorium
Film Series

.American Cowboys, directed, produced, and written by Umatilla tribal member Cedric Wildbill and and his wife Tania, offers a captivating portrait of Jackson Sundown, a Nez Perce Indian,who was the first Native American to win the World Saddle Bronc Championship at the 1916 Pendleton Round-Up, and George Fletcher, an African American, who competed in the 1911 Saddle Bronc finals at the Pendleton Round-Up. The award winning documentary explores the struggles of two legendary cowboys to breach the color barrier and achieve their personal best.


3:15 pm
Break
3:30 pm
Breakout Session 3 - Cascade 123
Culture and History
Continued
3:30 pm
Breakout Session 4 - Cascade 125
Culture and History
"The Nez Perce Music Archive": L. Olson, R. Halfmoon, J. Pinkham, W. Wewa
3:30 pm
Breakout Session 4 - Cascade 127
Culture and History
"The Numipu Narratives: The Essence of Survival in the Indian Territory": D. Pearson
3:30 pm
Breakout Session 4 - CUB 212
Health and Wellness
"Securing Resources Culturally Appropriate Places": D. Chalmers
3:30 pm
Breakout Session 4 - CUB 214-216
Language Preservation
"Nez Perce Language Program": A. Sobotta
3:30 pm
Breakout Session 4 - CUB Auditorium
Film Series
6:00 pm
Traditional Dinner and Honoring of Elders
Dinner at the Livestock Pavilion
Thursday, September 30, 2004
7:30 am

Buffet Breakfast - Sponsored by the Museum of Anthropology and the Department of Anthropology

Session
Time
Session - Location
Presentation Title - Speaker
Status
8:30 am
Announcements
8:45 am
Keynote Panel
"Honoring the Past, Present, and Future"
9:30 am
Break
9:40 am
Breakout Session 4 - Cascade 123
Culture and History
"1855 Treaties: Commemorations and Legacies": G. Schalliol and B. Conner
9:40 am
Breakout Session 4- Cascade 125
Culture and History
"The Colville Trail": Chief Noel Edward
9:40 am
Breakout Session 4 - Cascade 127
Culture and History
"We are Nimipuu: On Collaboration and Lewis and Clark Revisited": R. Frey and J. Pinkham
9:40 am

Breakout Session 4 - CUB 212
Natural Resource Management

"Lessons from Salmon: An Applied Ethnographic Project": Robert Stout CRITFC

"The Columbia River Treaty Tribes and Salmon Recovery": C Hudson

9:40 am
Breakout Session 4 - CUB 214-216
Education

"Project Prism": Trudi Zaugg

"Na-ha-shnee: Preparing American Indians Students for Nursing Careers": Janet Katz

10:50 am
Break
11:00 am
Breakout Session 5- Cascade 123
Culture and History
"Celilo": Ed Edmo
11:00 am
Breakout Session 5- Cascade 125
Culture and History

"Historical Photograph Project"; R. Storch
11:00 am

Breakout Session 5- Cascade 127
Culture and History

"Lewis and Clark: America's First Dead Beat Dads": J. Pepion

11:00 pm
Breakout Session 5- CUB 212
Natural Resource Management
"Cultural Geography and Ethnobiology in the Northwest Region": M. Stanger, J. Hartman, Q. Matheson
11:00 pm
Breakout Session 5- CUB 214-216
Education
"Teaching Treaties": A. Fisher, C. Craig, M. Skahan-Malatare
12:30 pm
Lunch and Keynote Speaker
Patsy Whitefoot
2:00 pm
Breakout Session 6- Cascade 123
Culture and History
"Washaat Religion of the Columbia Plateau": W. Wewa, R. Buck, A. Andrews, S. Slockish
2:00 pm
Breakout Session 6- Cascade 125
Culture and History
"Women as Builders: Tul Mat Lodges": M. Wright
2:00 pm
Breakout Session 6- Cascade 127
Culture and History
Wanapa Koot Koot
2:00 pm
Breakout Session 6- CUB 212
Telecommunications

"WSU Extension and Tribal Nations: A Thriving Partnership": S. Fedale

"If You Build It They Will Come": G. Nenema, F. Cullooyah, J. R. Bluff, P. Autry

2:00 pm
Breakout Session 6- CUB 214-216
Education

"From Reservation Youth to College Campus": A. Taylor

"A History of Education on the Flathead Reservation": S. Pinoteau

3:15 pm
Break
3:30 pm
Keynote Panel
Keynote Speaker: Michael Holloman
4:00 pm
Wrap-up and Closing

 

         
                         
                         
 

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