2021-2022
Joshua Whitehead
Making Love with the Land
Oji-nêhiyaw member of Peguis First Nation (Treaty 1)
English and International Indigenous Studies Departments
University of Calgary
Tuesday, February 15, 2022, 4:00 – 5:30 pm PST
BOOK LAUNCH AND DISCUSSION
Wednesday, January 12, 2022, 1:00 – 2:30 pm PST
Available on the AIS Red Tawks YouTube Channel.
Hokulani Aikau (Kanaka Maoli), University of Victoria, Moderator
Joanne Barker (Lenape), San Francisco State University
Audra Simpson (Mohawk), Columbia University
Anne Spice (Tlingit), X University
Dr. Alex Wilson
Queering Indigenous Land-Based Education
Opaskwayak Cree Nation
Professor and Academic Director of the Aboriginal Education Research Centre
University of Saskatchewan
Wednesday, December 8, 2021, 1:00 – 2:30 pm PST/3:00 – 4:30 pm CST
Available on the AIS Red Tawks YouTube Channel.
2020 - 2021
Linda Tuhiwai Smith
Decolonizing Methodologies
Thursday, February 11, 2021 -- 4:00-5:30 pm PST
Available on the AIS Red Tawks Youtube Channel.
Linda Tuhiwai Smith (Ngāti Awa and Ngāti Porou iwi), Māori and Indigenous Studies, University of Waikato, New Zealand. Author of Decolonizing Methodologies: Research and Indigenous Peoples (1999).
Food Sovereignty:
A Discussion in Honor of Jessica Mae Orozco
Cassandra Freeman and Melissa K. Nelson
Tuesday, March 2 -- 4:00-5:30 pm PST
Available on the AIS Red Tawks Youtube Channel.
Cassandra Freeman (Spirit Lake Sioux), Co-Founder/Owner of Anatolian Farms in Southwest Colorado, Cultivating Organic Hemp and Vegetables (B.A. in AIS at SFSU, 2012).
Melissa K. Nelson (Anishinaabe/Métis [Turtle Mountain Chippewa]), Professor of Indigenous Sustainability, School of Sustainability, College of Global Futures, Arizona State University (AIS faculty 2002-2020). Contributor and editor, Traditional Ecological Knowledge: Learning from Indigenous Practices for Environmental Sustainability (2018).
Abolition and Settler Colonialism: On Corporate-State-Police Entanglement
Shiri Pasternak
Thursday, April 22 -- 11:00-12:15 pm PST
Available on the AIS Red Tawks YouTube Channel.
Shiri Pasternak, Research Director at Yellowhead Institute and Assistant Professor in Criminology at Ryerson University. Her book, Grounded Authority, is an in-depth critique of the federal land claims policy in Canada from the perspective of Algonquin law, and was published in 2017. She writes about resource extraction, Crown-First Nations fiscal relations, and legal problems of colonialism.
This World is a Wound
Billy-Ray Belcourt
Thursday, April 29 -- 4:00-5:30 pm PST
Available on the AIS Red Tawks YouTube Channel.
Billy-Ray Belcourt is a writer and academic from the Driftpile Cree Nation. He is an Assistant Professor in the Creative Writing Program at the University of British Columbia. A 2018 Pierre Elliott Trudeau Foundation Scholar, he earned his PhD in English at the University of Alberta. He was also a 2016 Rhodes Scholar and holds an M.St. in Women's Studies from the University of Oxford and Wadham College. In the First Nations Youth category, Belcourt was awarded a 2019 Indspire Award, which is the highest honor the Indigenous community bestows on its own leaders.
Reflections in the Time of COVID
Special to Red Tawks: Mask-Making Video by Gabriela Segovia-McGahan
VIDEO depicts the process of cutting, ironing, folding, and sewing fabric to make two-ply 100% cotton masks for the community, in March 2020, when San Francisco State University went into remote modality.
Administrative Analyst Specialist, Gabriela Segovia-McGahan, has been making masks since the start of the quarantine caused by COVID-19.
2019 - 2020
The 50th from the Perspective of Alaska Native Studies: A Roundtable Discussion
Available at the AIS Red Tawks YouTube channel.
Wednesday, September 25, 2:30-4:00 pm·Ethnic Studies Building 116
- Betty Parent (Deg Xit'an), Professor Emeritus of American Indian Studies, SFSU
- Shari Huhndorf (Yup’ik), Professor, Native American Studies, UC Berkeley
- Jessica Bissett Perea (Dena’ina), Assistant Professor, Native American Studies, UC Davis
The 50th from the Perspective of this Place: A Workshop on Land Acknowledgment PDF
Available at the AIS Red Tawks YouTube channel.
Wednesday, October 9, 2:00-3:30 pm · Seven Hills Conference Center
- Corrina Gould (Chochenyo Ohlone)
- Kanyon Sayers-Roods (Coastanoan Ohlone/Chumash)
- Gregg Castro (t'rowt'raahl Salinan/rumsien Ohlone)
- Discussant: LaNada War Jack (Bannock Nation)
Joanne Barker (Lenape), Professor and Chair of American Indian Studies, Opening Comments PDF
Keynote: The 50th from the Perspective of Alcatraz PDF
Native Resistance: An Intergenerational Fight for Survival and Life
Available at the AIS Red Tawks YouTube channel.
Wednesday, October 9, 4:00-6:00 pm · Seven Hills Conference Center
- LaNada War Jack (Bannock Nation) Co-Organizer of the ’69 Occupation of Alcatraz
Resounding Witchi Tai To: 1969 – 2019
Wednesday, October 16, 1:00-2:00 pm · Knuth Hall Creative Arts Building
- Musical performance commemorating the 50th Anniversary of Jim Pepper’s Witchi Tai To
Missing and Murdered: Violence Against Indigenous Women and Children in California PDF
Available at the AIS Red Tawks YouTube channel.
Tuesday, October 22, 2:00-4:00 pm · Ethnic Studies Building EP 116
- April McGill (Yuki, Wappo, Little Lake Pomo, Wailaki)
- Michelle Maas (Bad River Ojibwe)
- Jackie Fawn (Yurok, Washoe, Filipina)
Sovereign Shields and State Violence in Indian Country PDF
Tuesday, November 12, 1:00-3:00 pm · Ethnic Studies Building 116
- Theresa Rocha Beardall (SFSU AIS/LNTS 2005 Alum), Assistant Professor, Virginia Tech
- Frank Edwards, Assistant Professor, Rutgers University
Alcatraz Reflections
Wednesday, November 13, 1:00-2:00 pm · Knuth Hall Creative Arts Building
- Musical performance commemorating the 50th Anniversary of the Occupation of Alcatraz Island
From Alcatraz to Mauna Kea: The 50th from the Future of Us PDF
Available at the AIS Red Tawks YouTube channel.
Wednesday, November 13, 2:00-5:00 pm · Ethnic Studies Building 116
- Ella Henry (Maori), Aukland University of Technology, New Zealand
- Ponipate Rokolekutu, Assistant Professor, Race and Resistance Studies
- Joanne Barker (Lenape), Professor and Chair, American Indian Studies
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