Red Tawks

Making Love with the Land

Joshua Whitehead
Oji-nêhiyaw member of Peguis First Nation (Treaty 1)
English and International Indigenous Studies Departments, University of Calgary

Joanne Barker's "Red Scare" Book Launch and Discussion

• 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

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Queering Indigenous Land-Based Education

Dr. Alex Wilson
Opaskwayak Cree Nation
Professor and Academic Director of the Aboriginal Education Research Centre, University of Saskatchewan

• Dr. Alex Wilson on WordPress
• "Queering Indigenous Land-Based Education During Covid-19"

Decolonizing Methodologies

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 (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/Mé​tis [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
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 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 Ph.D. 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

The 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. 

The 50th from the Perspective of Alaska Native Studies: A Roundtable Discussion

• 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

• 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

Native Resistance: An Intergenerational Fight for Survival and Life

LaNada War Jack (Bannock Nation) 
Co-Organizer of the ’69 Occupation of Alcatraz

Resounding Witchi Tai To: 1969 – 2019

The John-Carlos Perea Quartet performs a musical commemoration of the 50th anniversary of the song "Witchi Tai To" by the Creek and Kaw jazz saxophonist Jim Pepper (1941 – 1992). Featuring Bryan Bowman (drum set), Karl Evangelista (guitar), Masaru Koga (saxophone) and Associate Professor of American Indian Studies John-Carlos Perea (bass, voice).

Missing and Murdered: Violence Against Indigenous Women and Children in California

• 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

• Theresa Rocha Beardall (SFSU AIS/LNTS 2005 Alum), Assistant Professor, Virginia Tech
• Frank Edwards, Assistant Professor, Rutgers University

Alcatraz Reflections

Musical performance commemorating the 50^th Anniversary of the Occupation of Alcatraz Island

From Alcatraz to Mauna Kea: The 50th from the Future of Us

• 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