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CONFERENCE AGENDA

Traditional Knowledge & Western Science: Finding Common Ground
March 3 & 4, 2006
The University of Montana

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AGENDA

***Schedule Subject to Change***

Friday, March 3
Time
Activity
8:00 AM
Registration
9:00 AM

Opening Circle & Prayer
University Center Ballroom

Opening prayer
Mr. Johnny Arlee, Elder, Confederated Salish & Kootenai Tribes

University & Departmental Welcome:
Dr. Dan Dwyer, Vice-President of Research & Development
Dr. Erick Greene, Department of Biological Sciences
Dr. Dave Beck, Department of Native American Studies
9:30 AM

Keynote Address
University Center Ballroom
Defining Traditional Ecological Knowledge
Dr. Robin Kimmerer, SUNY Colege of Environmental Science & Forestry

10:00 AM

Session I A - Federal Indian Law & Indian Reserved Rights Law
University Center, Room 330/331
Presenter: Professor Ray Cross, University of Montana School of Law
 

Session I B- "The Link Between Traditional Wisdom and the Western Concept of Wilderness"
University Center, Room 326/327
Presenter: Dr. Alan Watson, Aldo Leopold Wilderness Research Institute
10:30 PM Break
10:45 PM

Session II– Indigenous Rights, Environmental Justice & the Youth Movement
University Center Ballroom
Presenter: Evon Peter, Chair of the Native Movement

12:00 PM

LUNCH ON OWN
(Box lunches are available for $8 & require prepayment)
1:00 PM

Session III A- Issues in tribal natural resources management
University Center, Room 330/331
Presenter: Tony Harwood, Sheila Matt, & Tom McDonald, Confederated Salish & Kootenai Tribes Natural Resources Division

 

Session III B- Subsistence & TEK
University Center, Room 326/327
Presenter: Orville Huntington, Vice-Chair of the Alaska Native Science Commission

2:15 PM

BREAK
2:30 PM

Session IV A- Morality & TEK
University Center, Room 330/331
Presenter: Dr. Ronald Trosper, University of British Columbia

 

Session IV B - “Fire on the Land”
University Center, Room 326/327
Presenter: Germaine White, Confederated Salish & Kootenai Tribes
3:45 PM

SESSIONS BREAK FOR DAY
4:00 PM - 6:00 PM

Stick Game Workshop & Tournament
University Center, Room 326/327
Led by Wade Davies & the NAS 210 class

6:30 PM

Reception & Silent Auction
“Mocktails” & hors d’oeurves in the Grand Foyer, University Center

7:00 PM

“A Casual Affair for a Critical Cause”
A benefit dinner for the Inuit Circumpolar Conference’s Global Climate
Change Program, University Center Ballroom

Keynote address: Richard Powell, Inuit Circumpolar Commission
“The Right to Be Cold: Inuit Circumpolar Conference, Arctic Climate Change and the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights”
9:00 PM
Concert with Montana’s own Jack Gladstone
Saturday March 4
Time
Activity
8:00 AM

“Honoring our Educators” Breakfast
(Invited Guests Only)
University Center, Room 326/327
Hosted by the University of Montana's American Indian Science & Engineering Society

9:30 AM

Session V - Global Climate Change & the Inuit Culture
University Center Theatre
Presenter: Orville Huntington, The Alaska Native Science Commission & Richard Powell, The Inuit Circumpolar Conference
10:45 AM
Break
11:00 AM

Session VI – Restoration Ecology & TEK
University Center Theater
Presenter: Dr. Robin Kimmerer, State University of New York
12:15 PM

LUNCH ON OWN
(Box lunches are available for $8 & require prepayment)
1:00 PM

Session VII A- Fire & Restoration Ecology
University Center, Room 326/327
Presenter: Victoria Yazzie, Institute for Ecological Restoration
 

Session VII B– Graduate Student Presentations:
University Center, Room 330/331

“Tribal Attempts to Incorporate TEK into Environmental Programs: Obstacles and Suggestions”
Presenter: Clint Carroll, Doctoral Student, University of California-Berkeley

“Sedimentary legacy of sockeye salmon returns to an ultra-oligotrophic lake in coastal British Columbia: Coherence with Scientific and Traditional Ecological Knowledge”
Presenter – Aaron Hill, Graduate Student, The University of Montana, Flathead Lake Biological Station

International Indigenous Peoples Issues: New Zealand’s Maori
Presenter: Kristina Ramstad, Graduate Student, University of Montana
2:15 PM

BREAK
2:30 PM

Session VIII A- “In their own words”
University Center, Room 330/331
Workshop leader: Iris PrettyPaint, The University of Montana
 

Session VIII B - “Trodding the Circle from Indian Community to University Research and Back.”
University Center, Room 326/327
Presenter: Dr. Gilbert John, Oklahoma State University
4:00 PM

Closing Circle & Prayer
University Center, Room 330/331

Opening prayer
Mr. Johnny Arlee, Elder, Confederated Salish & Kootenai Tribes

Conferece Summary & Review
Pat Hurley, Professor of Environmental Science, Salish Kootenai College