Current Projects
"California Native Pedagogies: Sharing Resources and Teaching Methods for California Indian Studies" (Project Database)
Presented at the 2016 California Indian Conference, October 21, 2016.
Moderator: Vanessa Esquivido-Meza (Wintu, Hupa, Chicana, enrolled Nor Rel Muk Wintu), Ph.D. Candidate in Native American Studies, University of California, Davis.
Presenters: Dr. Angel Hinzo (Winnebago Tribe of Nebraska), IRISE Post Doctoral Fellow at University of Denver. Stephanie Lumsden (Enrolled Hoopa Valley Tribe), M.A. in Native American Studies. Dr. Cutcha Risling Baldy (Hupa, Karuk, Yurok, Enrolled: Hoopa Valley Tribe), Assistant Profesor American Indian Studies, SDSU.
Let's come together and discuss our techniques for teaching California Indian Studies. This roundtable was created out of conversations between four Native women scholars sharing ideas on pedagogies, experiences, YouTube videos, and other multimedia sources all centering around California Indians. Each panelist has taught courses with a California Indian focus and utilized diverse resources to help engage students across disciplines. Our objective is to share our teaching resources and methods to aid the conversation in how we teach California Indian Studies in the 21st century. Topics include: literature, history, contemporary political issues, art aesthetics, and community engagement all centering around California Indians. Panelists will review resources (videos, poetry, articles, songs, lesson plans) they use to teach California Indian Studies courses and also discuss student responses to the material.
Presented at the 2016 California Indian Conference, October 21, 2016.
Moderator: Vanessa Esquivido-Meza (Wintu, Hupa, Chicana, enrolled Nor Rel Muk Wintu), Ph.D. Candidate in Native American Studies, University of California, Davis.
Presenters: Dr. Angel Hinzo (Winnebago Tribe of Nebraska), IRISE Post Doctoral Fellow at University of Denver. Stephanie Lumsden (Enrolled Hoopa Valley Tribe), M.A. in Native American Studies. Dr. Cutcha Risling Baldy (Hupa, Karuk, Yurok, Enrolled: Hoopa Valley Tribe), Assistant Profesor American Indian Studies, SDSU.
Let's come together and discuss our techniques for teaching California Indian Studies. This roundtable was created out of conversations between four Native women scholars sharing ideas on pedagogies, experiences, YouTube videos, and other multimedia sources all centering around California Indians. Each panelist has taught courses with a California Indian focus and utilized diverse resources to help engage students across disciplines. Our objective is to share our teaching resources and methods to aid the conversation in how we teach California Indian Studies in the 21st century. Topics include: literature, history, contemporary political issues, art aesthetics, and community engagement all centering around California Indians. Panelists will review resources (videos, poetry, articles, songs, lesson plans) they use to teach California Indian Studies courses and also discuss student responses to the material.
"The Uneasy Remains Film Project"(Project Coordinator/ Producer)
The Uneasy Remains Film Project is a collaborative documentary film project involving students, faculty, and staff at the University of California, Davis along with California Tribal Communities and policy makers. The project hopes to facilitate a dialogue between University agencies, Native American Students, and tribal communities on the issues of NAGPRA and human remains stored on the UC Davis campus.
The Uneasy Remains Film Project is a collaborative documentary film project involving students, faculty, and staff at the University of California, Davis along with California Tribal Communities and policy makers. The project hopes to facilitate a dialogue between University agencies, Native American Students, and tribal communities on the issues of NAGPRA and human remains stored on the UC Davis campus.
Decolonization: Indigeneity, Education & Society (Assistant Editor)
Decolonization: Indigeneity, Education & Society is an undisciplinary, peer-reviewed, online Open Access journal committed to supporting and advancing decolonization scholarship, practice, and activism within and, more importantly, beyond and against, the academy. We believe in connecting decolonization struggles across locations and experiences, in connecting academics, activists, and artists - and their production - within larger communities of decolonial struggle, and connecting knowledge production to histories of resistance to colonial power; we believe in a lived out decolonial praxis. Decolonization is not new and we do not aspire to meet the academic demand for new and invigorating paradigms; it is not the academy we are interested in invigorating. Instead, we seek to ground decolonization in the lived experiences and histories of those individuals and communities that have and are living out decolonization, seeking to invigorate connections, struggles, and knowledges that reside beyond the academy.
Decolonization: Indigeneity, Education & Society is an undisciplinary, peer-reviewed, online Open Access journal committed to supporting and advancing decolonization scholarship, practice, and activism within and, more importantly, beyond and against, the academy. We believe in connecting decolonization struggles across locations and experiences, in connecting academics, activists, and artists - and their production - within larger communities of decolonial struggle, and connecting knowledge production to histories of resistance to colonial power; we believe in a lived out decolonial praxis. Decolonization is not new and we do not aspire to meet the academic demand for new and invigorating paradigms; it is not the academy we are interested in invigorating. Instead, we seek to ground decolonization in the lived experiences and histories of those individuals and communities that have and are living out decolonization, seeking to invigorate connections, struggles, and knowledges that reside beyond the academy.
Northwest Coast Regalia Stories (Editor, Project Director):
The Northwest Coast Regalia Stories Project explores the life stories of cultural regalia pieces for Northwest California Native peoples. This digital humanities project also examines the effects of history and change for Native regalia pieces through the last century. The personal perspectives and experiences of living regalia makers reveal the meanings embedded in the regalia. These traditions are represented through collected stories and mixed-media to illustrate the remarkable continuance of these cultures. The digital humanities site launches in mid-August 2014. The project will also include a published text. More soon...
The Northwest Coast Regalia Stories Project explores the life stories of cultural regalia pieces for Northwest California Native peoples. This digital humanities project also examines the effects of history and change for Native regalia pieces through the last century. The personal perspectives and experiences of living regalia makers reveal the meanings embedded in the regalia. These traditions are represented through collected stories and mixed-media to illustrate the remarkable continuance of these cultures. The digital humanities site launches in mid-August 2014. The project will also include a published text. More soon...
Past Projects
Lyng v Northwest Indian Cemetery Protection Association (1988) - 25 Years Later Symposium (Coordinator/ Planning Committee)
In 1988 the Lyng v Northwest Indian Cemetery Association case made headlines in national and international arenas as several tribes protested the building of a road between Gasquet and Orleans in Northern California. 2013 marks Twenty-five years after the Supreme Court case and the lasting impact of this decision is reflected in numerous citations in scholarship, law, art, research and legislation. There still exists no constitutional protection for Native religion according to the interpretation of this case. This one day symposium at the University of California Davis will explore the past, present and future of the Lyng case – twenty-five years later. Throughout the day long symposium we will welcome presentations about current explorations and applications of the Lyng Case across disciplines, areas of research and legal/political arenas. http://ucdnasgrads.weebly.com/lyngsymposium
In 1988 the Lyng v Northwest Indian Cemetery Association case made headlines in national and international arenas as several tribes protested the building of a road between Gasquet and Orleans in Northern California. 2013 marks Twenty-five years after the Supreme Court case and the lasting impact of this decision is reflected in numerous citations in scholarship, law, art, research and legislation. There still exists no constitutional protection for Native religion according to the interpretation of this case. This one day symposium at the University of California Davis will explore the past, present and future of the Lyng case – twenty-five years later. Throughout the day long symposium we will welcome presentations about current explorations and applications of the Lyng Case across disciplines, areas of research and legal/political arenas. http://ucdnasgrads.weebly.com/lyngsymposium
Arts, Voices, Perspectives Media Project (Producer, Editor)
PHASE 1 of this project included the production of three artist feature videos about Native American artists from Northern California. This portion of the project was funded with a grant from the Seventh Generation Fund and support from the Ink People Center for the Arts and Center for Indian Community Development. PHASE 2: The second phase of this project is the hosting and recording of an educational symposium that will explore the influence and importance of Native American art by convening a panel of educators, artists and community members. From this discussion symposium we hope to build a network of artists, community members and academics that can work together to address the many challenging issues facing artists as they pursue their livelihoods. (Anticipated date of the symposium is Spring 2012)
PHASE 1 of this project included the production of three artist feature videos about Native American artists from Northern California. This portion of the project was funded with a grant from the Seventh Generation Fund and support from the Ink People Center for the Arts and Center for Indian Community Development. PHASE 2: The second phase of this project is the hosting and recording of an educational symposium that will explore the influence and importance of Native American art by convening a panel of educators, artists and community members. From this discussion symposium we hope to build a network of artists, community members and academics that can work together to address the many challenging issues facing artists as they pursue their livelihoods. (Anticipated date of the symposium is Spring 2012)
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