International conference "Mass Violence and Its Lasting Impact on Indigenous Peoples – The Case of the Americas and Australia/Pacific Region"

Conference Opening by members of the USC Native American Student Assembly

Conversation and Knowledge Sharing With Indigenous Elders

• Aunty Zona Wilkinson Gamilaroi Elder from Mount Druitt
   
• Wendy Phillips Bald Eagle Clan, Potawatomi and Ojibwa, Wasauksing First Nation
   
• Christina Salazar Gabrieliño Elder
   
• Video from Daniel N. Paul Mi'kmaw Saqmawiey

• Wolf Gruner (Founding Director, USC Dornsife Center for Advanced Genocide Research)

• Lorena Sekwan Fontaine Cree-Anishinabe, Sagkeeng First Nation (University of Winnipeg, Canada)

• Dorota Glowacka (University of King's College, Halifax, Canada)


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• Mishuana Goeman Tonawanda Band of Seneca (University of Buffalo, US, Indigenous Studies)

• Benjamin Madley (University of California, Los Angeles, US, History)
  
  An American Genocide: The United States and the California Indian Catastrophe, 1846-1873

Chair: Jair Peltier Bear Clan, Anishinaabe, Turtle Mountain Band of Chippewa (University of Southern California, US, Political Science and International Relations)

• Raymond I. Orr Citizen Potawatomi (Dartmouth College, US, Native American Studies)
  Comparative Perspectives on Early Violence in Settler Societies: Australia and US
  
   


• Walter Delrio (National University of Río Negro, Argentina, History) and Pilar Perez (National University of Río Negro, Argentina, History)
  The Desert Within: Indigenous Genocide as a Structuring Event in Argentina
  
   
   
• Jeffrey Ostler (University of Oregon, US, Northwest and Pacific History)
  U.S. Indian Removal: Ethnic Cleansing or Genocide?
  
   

Chair/Discussant: Beverly Jacobs Mohawk Nation of the Haudenosaunee (Iroquois) Confederacy, Bear Clan (University of Windsor, Canada, President’s Office)

• Dawn Martin-Hill Mohawk, Wolf Clan (McMaster University, Canada, Cultural Anthropology, Indigenous Studies)
  Women's Law Uterine Law
  
   
   
• Ñusta Carranza Ko (University of Baltimore, US, Political Science)
  Genocide, the Forced Sterilization of Indigenous Peoples of Peru and the Meaning of Justice
  
   
   
• Discussion/Q&A
  
   
   

Chair: Nancy Marie Mithlo Fort Sill Chiricahua Apache (University of California, Los Angeles, Gender Studies and American Indian Studies)

• Sisokaduta Joe Bendickson Sisseton-Wahpeton, Dakota (University of Minnesota, US, American Indian Studies)
  Oyáte Wičhákasotapi ga Wičháyuwašičupi: Tókhed Iápi kiŋ Uŋkíč’ihduzapi (Genocide and Assimilation: How We Held on to Our Language)
  
   
   
• George Dalbo (University of Minnesota, US, Curriculum and Instruction and Social Sciences Education) and Joe Eggers (University of Minnesota, US, Center for Holocaust and Genocide Studies)
  Settling the Historical Record: Narratives of Dakota Internment in the Settler Imaginary
  
   

Chair/Moderator: Dorota Glowacka (University of King's College, Halifax, Canada, History and Humanities)

• Aluki Kotierk Inuk (President, Nunavut Tunngavik Incorporated (NTI); Co-Chair for the Steering Committee of the United Nations Global Task Force For Making a Decade of Action for Indigenous Languages)
   
• Stanley Rodriguez Kumeyaay-Iipay, Santa Ysabel (Kumeyaay Community College, California State University, San Marcos, US, Educational Leadership, Language, American Indian Studies)
   
• Lorena Sekwan Fontaine Cree-Anishinabe, Sagkeeng First Nation (University of Winnipeg, Canada, Indigenous Studies)

Chair: Alexia Orengo Green (University of Southern California, US, History)

• Krista Collier-Jarvis L'nu/Mi'kmaw​ (Dalhousie University, Canada, English)
  Saving the Child Within the Indian: Representing the Residential School Experience
  
   

Chair: Sarah Ernst (University of Southern California, US, History)

• Rachel Nolan (Boston University, US, Latin American Studies)
  Forcible Adoptions as a Strategy of Genocide: Guatemala in the 1980s
  
   

• Diana Lenton (University of Buenos Aires, Argentina, Anthropology)
  Wounds of Indigenous Genocide in Argentina and Possibilities for Healing
  
   

Chair: Chris Finley Colville Confederated Tribes (University of Southern California, American Studies and Ethnicity)

• Tenzin Butsang (University of Toronto, Canada, Public Health, Social and Behavioral Health Sciences) 
  Kijibashik: Turn it Around – Colonial Violence and Previously Incarcerated Indigenous Mothers
  
   
• Lorinda Riley Native Hawaiian and Cherokee (University of Hawaiʻi, Mānoa, US, Native Hawaiian and Indigenous Health)
  When Justice is Unjust: Stemming the Effects of the Juvenile Justice System on Native Hawaiians
  
   

Chair/Moderator: Kelly Leah Stewart Gabrieliño-Tongva/Luiseño (University of California, San Diego, and California State University, San Marcos, Educational Leadership, American Indian Studies) 

• James C. Ramos Serrano/Cahuilla (Assemblymember, California State Assembly)
   
• Wendy G. Teeter (Cultural Resources Archaeologist for Santa Ynez Band of Chumash Indians; Curator of Archaeology, Fowler Museum, University of California Los Angeles, US, Archaeology, American Indian Studies)
   
• Eva Trujillo ‘Iipay-Kumeyaay (University of California, San Diego, US, Repatriation, Resource Management and Planning)
   
• Rebecca Tsosie Yaqui (University of Arizona, Law)
  
   
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"The Body Remembers When the World Broke Open"
Separate RSVP required. RSVP here.

Chair: Liza Black Citizen of Cherokee Nation (Indiana University - Bloomington, History, Native American and Indigenous Studies)

• Karine Duhamel Anishinaabe-Métis (Independent scholar, History, Canada)
  Reclaiming Power and Place: Confronting Genocide Within the Context of Canada’s National Inquiry into Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women and Girls
   

• Catherine Richardson/Kinewesquao Métis (Concordia University, Canada, First Peoples Studies)
  The Honour of One is The Honour of All:  Dignity and Safety for Indigenous Women and Girls - Perspectives from Northern Turtle Island/Canada
  
   

• Janie Dolan Cake (FRIDAA Project, Québec, Canada, Social Work)
  “FRIDAA” as a Process to Support Those Working With Indigenous Women Who Are Experiencing Violence
  
   
• Nancy Marie Mithlo Fort Sill Chiricahua Apache (University of California, Los Angeles, Gender Studies and American Indian Studies)
  Owning Hate, Owning Hurt: The Aesthetics of Violence in American Indian Contemporary Art
  
   
• Liza Black Citizen of Cherokee Nation (Indiana University - Bloomington, History, Native American and Indigenous Studies)
  What Made Vanessa Scream: MMIWG in Historic Context
   

Chair: Sedonna Goeman-Shulsky Tonawanda Band of Seneca (University of California, Los Angeles, Environment and Sustainability, American Indian Studies)

• Keshia DeFreece Lawrence Ramapough Lenape Tribe (United Nations Mandated University for Peace, International Relations/International Law)
  The Arctic Circle: Climate Change, International Law and Indigenous Heritage
  
   

Chair: Carol Wise (University of Southern California, US, Political Science and International Relations)

• Vaclav Masek Sánchez (University of Southern California, US, Sociology)
  Genocide Denial and Distortion in Post-"Peace" Guatemala
  
   

• Kim TallBear Sisseton Wahpeton Oyate, Dakota, Cheyenne and Arapaho Tribes (University of Alberta, Canada, Faculty of Native Studies)
  Indigenous Elimination, Settler Apocalypse, and Relational Hope
  
   

• USC Visions & Voices Signature Event
  A concert and conversation with Lido Pimienta (Afro/Indigenous/Colombian/Canadian)
  Admission is free, separate RSVP required.
  For more information, click here. RSVP here.
  Presented by USC Visions and Voices and the USC Dornsife Center for Advanced Genocide Research with support from media partner KCRW.

Chair: Claradina Soto Navajo/Jemez Pueblo (University of Southern California Keck School of Medicine, US, Public Health)

• Susan Shay (Independent Researcher and Member of Heritage Research Group at University of Cambridge, UK, Heritage/Historic Preservation)
  Speaking Indigenous Rights to Power: Native Hawaiian Empowerment Through Courtroom Participation
  
   
• Aresta Tsosie Paddock (Navajo Nation) (University of Arizona, US, American Indian Studies/Linguistics)
  A Broken Circle: Land Displacement and Cultural Dispossession of Second-Generation Diné Relocatees
  
   

Chair: Fabri Blacklock Nucoorilma/Ngarabal/Biripi (University of New South Wales Sydney, Australia, Art & Design)​

• Katherine Griefen (City University of New York Queensborough Community College, US, Museum Studies) and Danyelle Means Oglala Lakota (Center for Contemporary Arts, Santa Fe, New Mexico, US)
  Shared Authority in Curatorial Collaboration: On Organizing "Survivance & Sovereignty on Turtle Island: Engaging with Contemporary Native American Art" at the Kupferberg Holocaust Center at QCC
  
   
• Joshua Frank Cárdenas Mohawk/Seneca, Onkwehonwe (University of New Mexico, US, Language, Literacy, and Sociocultural Studies)
  Jack D. Forbes, D-Q University and Chicano-Indian Unity: Educational Medicine for California Borderland and Border-Town Violence
  
   
• Candy Martinez (University of California, Los Angeles, US, Latin American and Latino Studies)
  Embodying Traumatic Wounds and Validating Indigenous Mixtec Healing Practices Through Film