Tentative Agenda

Spring 2009 Conference
April 3-5, 2009
Yale University

Friday April 3, 2009

8:00 – 12:00 pm Registration
Native American Cultural Center
295 Crown Street
12:00 – 1:30 pm Official Welcome Remarks and Luncheon
Native American Cultural Center
295 Crown Street
Shelly Lowe (Diné), Director of the Native American Cultural Center, Yale University
2:00 – 4:30pm Panel: “Self-determination through Indian Education”
Linsley-Chittenden Hall, Room 102
63 High Street

Kauanoe Kamana (Native Hawaiian), President and founding member of ‘Aha Punana Leo, the leading language revitalization organization in the United States

Namaka Rawlins (Native Hawaiian), Former Executive Director of ‘Aha Punana Leo for 18 years and Chairperson on the Native Hawaiian Education Council

Norbert Hill (Oneida), Vice President of the College of Menominee Nation, Former Executive Director of both the American Indian Science and Engineering Society (AISES) and the American Indian Graduate Center (AIGC).

Matthew Sakiestewa Gilbert (Hopi), Assistant Professor of American Indian Studies & History, University of Illinois
4:30 – 7:00 pm Break for Dinner
7:00 – 8:00 pm Networking Reception
Native American Cultural Center
295 Crown Street
8:00 – 10:00 pm Documentary Screening, Homeland: Four Portaits of Native Action
Linsley-Chittenden Hall, Room 317
10:00 pm Meet with Host
Linsley-Chittenden Hall, Room 317

Saturday April 4, 2009

8:30 – 9:00 am Continental Breakfast
Kroon Hall
195 Prospect Street
9:00 – 11:30 am Panel: “Approaches to Native Nation Building”
Kroon Hall

Amy Besaw (Brothertown Indian/Korean), Director of Development at the Harvard Project on American Indian Economic Development and Former Director of the Harvard Project’s tribal governance awards program, Honoring Nations

David Wilkins (Lumbee), Professor of American Indian Studies, Political Science, Law and American Studies, University of Minnesota

Ron Allen (Jamestown S'Klallam), Tribal Chairman/Chief Executive Officer of the Jamestown S’Klallam Tribe, President of the Washington Indian Gaming Association, Former President of the National Congress of American Indians
11:30 – 1:00 pm Graduate Schools Fair and Luncheon
Kroon Hall
1:00 – 4:00 pm Speakers Series:
“Economic Development in Indian Country – Gaming Industry”
Kroon Hall

Bruce “Two Dogs” Bozsum (Mohegan), Chairman of the Mohegan Tribe

Raymond C. Etcitty (Diné), General Counsel for the Navajo Nation Gaming
Enterprise

Ron Allen (Jamestown S'Klallam), Tribal Chairman/Chief Executive Officer of the Jamestown S’Klallam Tribe, President of the Washington Indian Gaming
Association, Former President of the National Congress of American
Indians
4:00 – 4:45 pm Break with Refreshments
5:00 – 6:00 pm All Ivy Council Meeting
Kroon Hall
6:30 – 9:00 pm Catered Dinner
Kroon Hall

Keynote: Tom Goldtooth (Diné/Dakota), Executive Director of the Indigenous Environmental Network
10:00 – 2:00 am Dance Party
The Ivy Lounge
956 Chapel Street

Sunday April 5, 2009

11:00 – 1:00 pm Brunch & Closing Remarks
Native American Cultural Center
295 Crown Street