Native American and Indigenous Studies N Association A I 2018 TENTH S ANNUAL MEETING A 1 LOS ANGELES CONTENTS OUR MANY THANKS Host Committee 1 Sponsors 2 WHERE TO GO Floor Plans 3 SCHEDULE SUMMARY Thursday, May 17 4 Friday, May 18 4 Saturday, May 19 5 EXHIBITORS ROOM Exhibitors 6 Exhibitors Map 7 THINGS TO DO Supported Events 8 Sunday at the Autry 10 Museum & Research Center Days 11 WHERE TO EAT Food & Drinks 12 Advertisements 13 Cover and inside photo credit: Jordan Pulmano (unsplash) 2 HOST COMMITTEE We would like to thank the host committee and UCLA American Indian Studies Center staff for all their hard work on this year’s conference! • UC Los Angeles: Mishuana Goeman (Tonawanda Band of Seneca) • Cal Tech: Nikki Chun (Kanaka Maoli) • Claremont Colleges: Kehaulani Vaughn (Kanaka Maoli) • CSU Long Beach: Cindi Alvitre (Gabrieliño/Tongva) • Cal Poly Pomona: Charles Sepulveda (Gabrieliño/Tongva, Acjachemen) • CSU Los Angeles: Kimberly Robertson (Mvskoke) • CSU Fullerton: Brady Hiener • Occidental and Autry: Nancy Mithlo (Chiricahua Apache) • UC Riverside: Michelle Raheja (Seneca) • UC Irvine: Alicia Cox • UC San Diego: Gloria Chacon (Maya Ch’orti’) and Katie Walkiewicz • Occidental College: Celestina Castillo • United American Indian Involvement (UAII): Joseph Quintana (Tewa) • Desiree Martinez, Gabrielino (Tongva) • NAISA Graduate Volunteer Coordinator: Michael Leonard Cox, San Diego Mesa College • Graduate Coordinators: Clementine Bordeaux (Sicangu Oglala Lakota), UCLA, and Margaret McMurtrey (Choctaw Nation of Oklahoma), UCSB UCLA American Indian Studies Center Staff • Shannon Speed (Chickasaw), Director • Mishuana Goeman (Tonawanda Band of Seneca), Associate Director • Pamela Grieman, Assistant Director • Jamie Chan, Management Services Officer • Stephen Pilcher (Oglala Lakota), Operations & Events Coordinator • Judy DeTar, Senior Editor • Ken Wade, Librarian 1 SPONSORS We would like to thank our lovely sponsors for their generous support in making this conference happen! Principal UCLA American Indian Studies Center UCLA Executive Vice Chancellor and Provost Scott L. Waugh UCLA Institute of American Cultures Platinum UCLA American Indian Studies Interdepartmental Program UCLA Equity, Diversity, and Inclusion California Center for Native Nations, University of California, Riverside Gold UCI Comparative Literature UCLA Dean of Social Sciences UCLA Institute for Research on Labor and Employment Silver UCLA Asian American Studies Center UCLA Department of Anthropology UCLA Department of Asian American Studies UCLA Department of History UCLA Institute of Inequality and Democracy UCLA International Institute UCLA Latin American Institute UCLA Penny Kanner Chair UCSD Institute of Arts and Humanities UCSD Department of Literature UCSD Office of the Vice Chancellor - Resource Management and Planning Cogstone Turquoise Anonymous UCLA Chicano Studies Research Center UCLA Department of Gender Studies UCSD Chancellor’s Office UCSD Ethnic Studies In-Kind Occidental College These Days United American Involvement Inc. 2 FLOOR PLANS The conference sessions will all be on the 5th — 7th floors. 5th Floor 6th Floor 7th Floor 3 SCHEDULE SUMMARY THURSDAY, MAY 17, 2018 FRIDAY, MAY 18, 2018 8 am – 6 pm Registration 8 am – 6 pm Registration Registration Desk, 5th Floor Registration Desk, 5th Floor 8 am – 5 pm Book Exhibits 8 am – 5 pm Book Exhibits Wilshire Grand Ballroom, 5th Floor Wilshire Grand Ballroom, 5th Floor 7:30 am – 10 am Coffee 7:30 am – 10 am Coffee Wilshire Grand Ballroom, 5th Floor Wilshire Grand Ballroom, 5th Floor 8 am – 9:45 am Concurrent Sessions 8 am – 9:45 am Concurrent Sessions 10 am – 11:45 am Concurrent Sessions 10 am – 11:45 Concurrent Sessions 12 pm – 2 pm Lunch Break am Presidential luncheon and panel 12 pm – 2 pm Lunch Break Wilshire III, 5th floor (ticketed event, lim- Graduate student luncheon ited seats) Wilshire III, 5th Floor (ticketed event, Abiayala Brown Bag meeting limited seats) Broadway Room 615 Digital Indigenous Research Brown Bag Transportation not provided. 15-20 Ladera Heights Room 521 minute walk. Tours begin on the hour. Transportation not provided. 15-20 The People’s Home exhibit with com- minute walk. Tours begin on the hour. munity partner UAII at These Days The People’s Home exhibit with com- 118 Winston st., 2nd floor. munity partner UAII at These Days 118 Winston St., 2nd floor. Urban Indigenous Place-Making through Art Urban Indigenous Place-Making Guided Tours of 118 Winston Street art through Art with artist on location. Artists include Guided Tours of 118 Winston Street art River Garza (Tongva @tikwi_), Votan with artist on location. Artists include (Maya/Nahuatl), Cece Curly Sage River Garza (Tongva @tikwi_), Votan (Nnee San Carlos Apache @shii.she. (Maya/Nahuatl), Cece Curly Sage visions). (Nnee San Carlos Apache @shii.she. visions). 2 pm – 3:45 pm Concurrent Sessions 2 pm – 3:45 pm Concurrent Sessions 4 pm – 5:45 pm Concurrent Sessions 4 pm – 5 pm NAISA Business Meeting 6 pm – 7:30 pm Opening Reception Wilshire Grand Ballroom, 5th Floor 5 pm – 6:30 pm Presidential Panel: Wilshire Grand Ballroom, 5th Floor 8 pm Graduate Networking Event Graduate Student Working Group VIP 6:30 – 7:30 pm Presidential Reception Night, Club Nokia 800 West Olympic 73rd floor/Spire Blvd., Los Angeles, CA 90015 7 pm – 10 pm The People’s Home: Winston Street 1974 Opening 118 Winston St., 2nd floor. Transportation not provided. 4 SCHEDULE SUMMARY SATURDAY, MAY 19, 2018 Download the full program at http://aisc.ucla.edu/naisa2018 8 am – 4 pm Registration Registration Desk, 5th Floor Or scan the QR code below to go directly to the link. You must download a QR scanner on your smartphone 8 am – 4 pm Book Exhibits in order to scan the code. Wilshire Grand Ballroom, 5th Floor 7:30 am – 10 am Coffee Wilshire Grand Ballroom, 5th Floor 8 am – 9:45 am Concurrent Sessions 10 am – 11:45 am Concurrent Sessions 12 pm – 2 pm Lunch Break Summer Institutes on Global Indigene- Navigating the conference hotel: ities Studies Board meeting The hotel is divided into two sections, each with its own Lincoln Heights Room 525 separate elevator bank. Guest rooms are in one sec- Snackable Stories with Billy-Ray Bel- tion, and the conference is in the other. To get to the court, Daniel Heath Justice, Lindsay conference rooms from guest rooms, go up to the 70th Nixon, Joshua Whitehead, and Erica floor lobby and change elevator banks. Go down to the Violet Lee, 12:00 - 1:45 pm, Hancock Park 7th. The conference sessions will all be on the 5th — 7th A Room 514 West floors. These three floors are connected by escalator. Transportation not provided. 15-20 The hotel elevators require you to punch in your desti- minute walk. Tours begin on the hour. nation floor number OUTSIDE of the elevator. Once you Urban Indigenous Place-Making enter your floor number onto the keypad, it will tell you through Art which elevator to enter. Guided Tours of 118 Winston Street art with artist on location. Artists include River Garza (Tongva @tikwi_), Votan (Maya/Nahuatl), Cece Curly Sage (Nnee San Carlos Apache @shii.she. visions). 2 pm – 3:45 pm Concurrent Sessions 4 pm – 5:45 pm Concurrent Sessions 6 pm – 7 pm NAIS Journal Reception Hollywood Bowl Pre-function Pool Area, 7th floor 7 pm – 10 pm To Native Beauty: Indigenous Music and Dance: community benefit event co-sponsored by UAII. Live music, poetry, food and silent auction. Hollywood Bowl Room, 7th floor 5 EXHIBITORS Exhibitor Booth # Aboriginal Policy Studies, University of Alberta ............................................................................................................................................................... 103 Arts and Crafts ....................................................................................................................................................................................................................................... 108 California Indian Basketweavers Assoc ............................................................................................................................................................................... 112 Cassy’s Arts & Crafts ......................................................................................................................................................................................................................... 106 Corey Stein Tlingit Artist ................................................................................................................................................................................................................... 104 D’Arcy McNickle Center for American Indian and Indigenous Studies at the Newberry Library .................................................. 206 Deparment of Indigenous Studies, University of Saskatchewan ........................................................................................................................ 105 Duke University Press ......................................................................................................................................................................................................................... 312 Fernwood Publishing.......................................................................................................................................................................................................................... 207 Great Oak Press ....................................................................................................................................................................................................................................