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PROGRAM
13th Inuit Studies Conference Voices from Indigenous Communities: Research, Reality & Reconciliation |
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All sessions are held on the University of Alaska Anchorage (UAA) campus. Shuttle service for the Thursday evening Traditional Foods Potluck will be available for those needing transportation. Shuttle service will also be available between UAA housing and the meeting area for one hour before and after each day's program. Shuttle Schedule
2:00- 6:00 pm - Registration (Lucy Cuddy Center)
6:00- 8:00 pm - Welcome Reception (Lucy Cuddy Center)
7:30 am - Registration
8:30 am - Conference Opening and Plenary Session
(Lucy Cuddy Center)
Gordon
L. Pullar - ISC Conference Chair, University of Alaska Fairbanks
Lucille
Antowak Davis - Sugpiaq Elder, Traditional lamp lighting and opening
prayer
Welcoming Remarks
Chief Paul Theodore -
Knik Tribe
Lee
Stephan - CEO, Native Village of Eklutna
Chancellor
Marshall Lind - University of Alaska Fairbanks
Provost James P. Chapman - University of Alaska Anchorage
9:15
am - Keynote Speaker
- Aqqaluk Lynge - President, Inuit Circumpolar
Conference,
Greenland, "Science For and Together With Indigenous Peoples"
10:00 am - Break - Refreshments sponsored by Calista, Inc.
10:30 am - Thursday Morning Sessions (Business Education Building)
1. Theoretical and Descriptive Linguistics (BEB
110)
Facilitator:
Anna Berge, University of Alaska Fairbanks
Presenters:
Alana Johns, Department of Linguistics, University of Toronto
Rigolet
Inuttut: On the Brink
Tadataka Nagai,
University of Alaska Fairbanks
tuni/runi
forms in Inupiaq
Karen Langgaard, Ilisimatusarfik University of Greenland
Inderivation
in West Greenlandic in a diachronic perspective
Elke Nowak, Technische Universitat Berlin
Evidence
for Time, Time for Evidence
2. Community Planning (BEB 111)
Facilitator:
Kimberly Williams, University of Alaska Fairbanks
Presenters:
Deborah Mitchell, Darlene Wright, Beth Leonard,
Zelma Axford, Malinda Chase,
and Deborah McCarter, Tanana Chiefs Conference, Kimberly Williams,
Cooperative
Extension Service, University of Alaska Fairbanks
Community
Planning in Indigenous and Rural Alaska
3. Issues in the Arctic (BEB
117)
Facilitator:
Richard A. Caulfield, University of Alaska Fairbanks
Presenters:
Joan Larsen, Department of Economics, University of Manitoba
Structural
Changes in Greenland
Augasta Marphusalova, Sakha Republic Parliament,
Russian Federation
The
Right in Ability to Live of Radical Small Peoples of the North Russia
Gorm Winther, Statistics Greenland
Democracy
and Power in Greenland
Sarah Leonard, Alaska
Wilderness Recreation & Tourism Association, Alaska Institute
for
Sustainable Recreation & Tourism
Sustainable
Tourism in The Arctic: LINKS
4. Health Issues (BEB 101)
Facilitator:
Nina Miller, Alaska Native Health Board
Presenters:
David Maas, University Alaska, Anchorage
Who
Cares? Alcohol, Drugs and Mental Illness in Alaska Native Villages
Suzanne Womack Strisik and Barbara Fleek, University of Alaska
Anchorage
Non
Traditional Approaches to the Treatment of Depression
12:00 noon Lunch (Lucy
Cuddy Center)
Luncheon Speaker - Father
Michael Oleksa, Dean of St. Innocents Cathedral, Russian
Orthodox
Diocese of Alaska
1:30 pm - Thursday Afternoon Sessions, Part 1 (Business Education Building)
1. Arctic Information Online (BEB 110)
Facilitator:
Paul Ongtooguk, University of Alaska Anchorage
Presenters:
Paul Ongtooguk, Katie Eberhart, Priscilla Hensley, Jim Kerr, and Suzanne
Sharp,
University of Alaska Anchorage
Sharing
Alaska Native Information Online: Developing and Maintaining the
Alaskool
Website
2. Intellectual Property Rights (BEB 117)
Facilitator:
Amy Craver, University of Alaska Anchorage
Presenters:
Amy Craver, Institute of Social and Economic Research, University
of Alaska Anchorage
Stewardship
Not Ownership: Alaska Natives Speak on Intellectual Property Protection
Naja Illeris, Ilisimatusarfik - University of Greenland
Local
Museums In Greenland Between Community and Research
3. Theoretical and Descriptive Linguistics
continued (BEB 110)
Presenter:
Anna
Berge, Alaska Native Language Center, University of Alaska Fairbanks
A
Comparative Study of the Participial in the Inuit and Yupik Languages
Roundtable
Discussion on Comparative Inuit, Yupik, and Aleut Linguistics (BEB
111)
Chair:
Anna Berge, University of Alaska, Fairbanks
4. Health Issues continued (BEB 101)
Facilitator:
Nina Miller, Alaska Native Health Board
Presenters:
Julien Naylor and Cindy Schraer, Alaska Native Medical Center
Cardiovascular
Disease Risk Factors Among Alaska Natives With Type 2
Diabetes
and Ethnic Differences
Stephanie Powell, University of Northern British Columbia
Winds
of Change? Persistent Organic Pollution in the Canada Arctic and the
International
Response
Frank Tester and Paule McNicoll, University of British Columbia
Housing
and health in the eastern arctic, 1955-1966: writing, practice and lived
experience
3:15 pm - Break - Refreshments sponsored by Wells Fargo Bank
3:30 pm - Thursday Afternoon Sessions, Part 2 (Business Education Building)
1. Klaus Georg Hansen, Sisimiut Museum
(BEB 110)
National
Image Database of Greenland
Birger Poppel, Statistics
Greenland
Statistics
Greenland: Statistical database
2. TBA (BEB 101)
3. Roundtable
Discussion on Comparative Inuit, Yupik, and Aleut Linguistics
continued (BEB 111)
Chair: Anna Berge,
University of Alaska, Fairbanks
4. TBA (BEB 117)
4:30 pm - Elders Wrap Up (Lucy Cuddy Center)
6:30 - 9:00 pm - Traditional Foods Potluck (at
Alaska Native Heritage Center)
Sponsored by First Alaskans Institute and Bristol Bay Native Corporation
King
Island Dancers and Singers of Anchorage sponsored by Natchiq, Inc.
Shuttle service will
be available from 6:00 - 7:00 pm for those needing transportation.
Meet
in the foyer of UAA Commons Building, located in the housing area.
7:30 am- Registration
8:30 am - Plenary Session
(Lucy Cuddy Center)
Facilitator:
Theresa Arevgaq John, University of Alaska Fairbanks
Opening
Prayer: Dixie Masak Dayo, University of Alaska Fairbanks
Special Presentation
- Janie Leask, Chairperson, Board of Trustees,
First Alaskans Institute
Keynote Speaker - Jose Kusagak -
President, Inuit Tapiriit Kanatami, Canada
Traditional Knowledge: Understanding and Utilizing Indigenous
Science
10:00 am - Break - Refreshments sponsored by Koniag, Inc.
10:30 am - Friday Morning Sessions (Business Education Building)
1. Ethnolinguistics and Narrative (BEB
117)
Facilitator:
Lawrence Kaplan, University of Alaska Fairbanks
Presenters:
Lawrence Kaplan, Alaska Native Language Center, University of Alaska
Fairbanks
Divine
Inspiration: Inventing Religious Terminology Across the Arctic
Guy Bordin, University
of Paris
The Inuit
Night: Some Ethnological Features
Murielle Nagy, Inuit Studies Group, Laval University
First
Memories in Inuvialuit Narratives
Michèle Therrien, Department
of Inuit language and culture, Institut national des
langues et civilisations orientales
How
Lexical Features in Inuktitut Can Inform Us on the Experience of
Remembering
2. Women’s Issues (BEB 111)
Facilitator:
Mary Jane Nielsen, University of Alaska Fairbanks
Presenters:
Phyllis Morrow, University of Alaska Fairbanks
Women’s
Teachings and Women’s Tales
Mariekathrine Poppel, University of Greenland
Domestic
Violence: Categorization in Greenland's pre-colonial and colonial periods
3. Integrating
Indigenous Knowledge: Ways of Knowing and World Views into the
Educational
System (BEB 110)
Facilitators:
Oscar Kawagley and Ray Barnhardt, University of Alaska Fairbanks
Presenters:
Oscar Kawagley, Frank Hill, Ray Barnhardt, Virginia Ned, Sean Topkok,
Andy Hope,
Dixie Dayo, University of Alaska Fairbanks and other AKRSI/ANKN
staff and Elders
Alaska Native Knowledge Network / Alaska Rural Systemic Initiative
4. Circumpolar
Art and Identity Panel (BEB 101)
Moderator:
Molly Lee
Panelists/Presenters:
Molly Lee, University
of Alaska Museum
Boats
and Baskets: The Yup’ik Eskimo Mingqaaq as Political Symbol
Nelson Graburn, Department of Anthropology, University of California
Berkeley
Inukauk
and Amautik: Canadian Inuit in the Modern World
Aron Crowell, Arctic Studies Center, Smithsonian Institution
Dynamics
of Indigenous Collaboration in Alaska
Chase Hensel, discussant,
Department of Psychology, University of Alaska Fairbanks
12:00 noon - Lunch (Lucy
Cuddy Center)
Luncheon Speaker - Angayuqaq
Oscar Kawagley, Alaska Native Knowledge
Network,
University of Alaska Fairbanks, Revisiting Action Reality Research
1:30 pm - Friday Afternoon Sessions, Part 1 (Business Education Building)
1. Traditional Knowledge (BEB 110)
Facilitator:
Patricia Longley Cochran, Alaskan Native Science Commission
Presenters:
Patricia Longley Cochran, Alaskan Native Science Commission
Traditional
Knowledge in Science and Policy
Joelle Robert Lamblin, Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique
The
Last Nomads of Eastern Greenland
Anatoly Alexeev, Sakha State University
Magic,
Mystics and Mythology
2. Change, Resource Development and Indigenous
Governments in the North (BEB 117)
Facilitator:
Mike Davis, University of Alaska Fairbanks
Presenters:
Tero Mustonen, affiliation
Snowchange:
Interpreting the Political Scape Demarcation Borders and
Non-linearities
of Temporality and Spatiality of Northern Indigenous Peoples in
the
Changing Geopolitics of the Circumpolar North
Karl Francis, Advisor to the City of Kaktovik and George
Tagarook, Mayor of
Kaktovik
Voices
of the Kaktovikmiut: An Inupiat Village speaks Its Mind on Oil and Gas
Development
Within Its Native Homelands
Annette Watson, University of Minnesota
The
Globalization of Knowledge - A Geographical Perspective
3. Language Policy and Language Usage (BEB
111)
Facilitator:
Theresa Arevgaq John, University of Alaska Fairbanks
Presenters:
Louis-Jacques Dorais, Department of Anthropology, University Laval
Discourse
and Identity in the Baffin Region: Conclusions and Reflections
Chase Hensel, Department of Psychology, University of Alaska Fairbanks
"If
I could not speak in Yup’ik without fear… I could not do my job":
Alaska’s
'Official
English' law declared unconstitutional
Tamara Andreeva, Institute of Problems of Northern Indigenous Peoples
Language
policy and language building
Michael P. J. Kennedy,
University of Saskatchewan
Voice
of Inuit: Orature/literature Taught Within English Departments at Canada’s
English
Language Universities
4. Circumpolar Art and Identity
Panel continued (BEB 101)
Moderator:
Molly Lee
Panelists/Presenters:
Gordon L. Pullar, Department of Alaska Native Rural Development,
University of
Alaska Fairbanks
The
Circle of Identity: Changing Names and Images of the Indigenous People
of
Kodiak
Island
Arthur Mason, University
of California Berkeley
In
the Alutiiq House of Culture
Amber Lincoln, affiliation
Negotiated
Authenticity: The Saami Handicraft Market in Sweden
Chase Hensel, discussant,
Department of Psychology, University of Alaska
Fairbanks
3:15 pm - Break - Refreshments sponsored by Bristol Bay Native Corporation
3:30 pm - Friday Afternoon Sessions, Part 2 (Business Education Building)
1. TBA (BEB 117)
2. Change, Resource Development and Indigenous
Governments in the North continued (BEB 110)
Facilitator:
Mike Davis, University of Alaska Fairbanks
Presenters:
Doris Dreyer, University of Northern British Columbia
Impact
and Benefit Agreements: Does the Ross River Dena Benefit From
Mining
Development?
Jorn Lars Berglund Nielsen, Political Science Department and Department
of
International Business, The University of Auckland
The
Politics of Dependency in Greenland
3. Language Policy and Language Usage continued
(BEB 111)
Facilitator:
Theresa Arevgaq John, University of Alaska Fairbanks
Presenters:
Jack Cain, Multilingual E-data Solutions
Asuilaak:
An Inuktituk Living Dictionary
Carl Chr. Olsen, Puju
Greenland Language Policy Survey and Recommendations
4. Circumpolar Art and Identity continued (BEB
101)
Moderator:
Molly Lee
Panelists/Presenters:
Dawn Biddison, Department of Anthropology, University of Alaska
Fairbanks
Tapping
the Power: Communication in Alaska Native Public Art
Chase Hensel, discussant,
Department of Psychology, University of Alaska Fairbanks
4:10 pm - Elders Wrap Up (Lucy Cuddy Center)
7:00 - 10:00 pm - Film Fast Runner (BEB
117)
8:30 am - Registration
9:00 am - Plenary Session
(Lucy Cuddy Center)
Facilitator: Richard A. Caulfield, University of Alaska Fairbanks
Opening
Prayer: Lela Kiana Oman, Inupiaq elder, Nome, Alaska
Welcome: Bernice Joseph, Executive Dean, College of Rural Alaska,
UAF
Keynote
Speaker - Mayor George N. Ahmaogak, Sr., North Slope Borough,
Barrow,
Alaska, Science, Politics and the Bottom
Line: the North Slope Experience
10:00 am - Break - Refreshments sponsored by Arctic
Research Consortium of the U.S.
(ARCUS)
10:30 am - Saturday Morning Sessions (Business Education Building)
1. The Concept of "Healthy" in Community and Organizational Development in Rural Alaska (BEB 101)Moderator: Larry Dickerson, University of Alaska Fairbanks, College of Rural Alaska
Panelists: Nina Miller, Gabe Sam, Annabelle Alvite, Esther Combs,
Rural Development Masters Degree Students, Department of Alaska Native and Rural
Development, University of Alaska Fairbanks
2. Memory and History 1 (BEB 110)
Facilitator:
Berda Willson, University of Alaska Fairbanks
Presenters:
Yvon Csonka, Department of Social and Cultural History, University
of Greenland
Ethnohistory
in the North: Where is it Headed?
Jarich Oosten, University of Leiden, The Netherlands and
Frédéric Laugrand,
Université Laval, Québec, Canada
Connections:
Lines and Whips in Inuit Cosmology
Victoria Churikova, Union of Itelmens of Kamchatka and
Peter Bekkerov, Union of
Itelmens of Kamchatka
The
Itelmens of Kamchatka: history, language, modern state
Marie-Amelie Salabelle, Institut national Des langues et
civilisations orientales
Pinart's Collection: Aleut Masks, a part of Aleut Memory in a French
Museum
3. Inuit and the Media (BEB 111)
Facilitator:
TBA
Presenters:
Birgit Kleist Pedersen,
University of Greenland
The
craving For Getting Scared. The Popularity of the Horror Genre on Movies
and
Literature
Among Young Greenlanders
Jette Rygard, University
of Greenland
Youth
Culture in Greenland: An aspect of globalization
4. Inuit Spirituality, Values and Culture (BEB
117)
Facilitator:
Steve Langdon, University of Alaska Anchorage
Presenters:
Tony Kaliss, University College of the University of Maryland
"
But I Do Like My Electric Coffee Maker"
Anne-Marie Petersen, AMP International
Searching
for Unique Greenlandic Values
Elsie Mather, Independent
Yup’ik Language and Culture Researcher
Naming
System of the Yup’ik Eskimos in the Yukon Kuskokwim Area
12:00 noon - Lunch
(Lucy Cuddy Center)
Luncheon Speaker - TBA
1:30 pm- Saturday Afternoon Sessions, Part 1 (Business Education Building)
1. Memory and History 2 (BEB 110)
Facilitator:
Aron Crowell, Arctic Studies Center, Smithsonian
Institution
Presenters:
Aron Crowell, Arctic Studies Center, Smithsonian Institution
History,
Archeology, Oral Traditions of the Kenai Coast, Alaska
John Kilbourne,
Bridgewater State College
Enduring
Spirit of the Arctic
H. G. Jones, University of North Carolina
Eenoolooapiks
Odyssey: Inuit Geography and the Rediscovery of Cumberland Sound
2. Traditional Knowledge (BEB 101)
Facilitator:
Amy Craver, Alaska Native Science Commission
Presenters:
Patricia Longley
Cochran, Alaska Native Science Commission
Native
Perspectives on Sustainability
Rex Snyder, Meda Snyder, and Christopher Koonooka, University of
Alaska
Fairbanks
Aboriginal
Bowhead Whaling in Alaska: Past, Present and Future
3. The Development of Indigenous Government (BEB
111)
Facilitator:
David Maas, University of Alaska Anchorage
Presenters:
Jean Rousseau, University Laval and University de Montreal
The
New Spaces of Citizenship Politics of the Nunavimmiut
Sargylana Altasova,
Sakha Republic Department on National Affairs, Russian
Federation
Development
of Local Self-management in Sakha Republic
Tom Greiffenberg, Greenland Home Rule Government and Jes Adolphsen,
Institute
of History, Aalborg University
The
Role of Greenland Committee Secretariat in the Social Development of
Greenland
4. Change in the Arctic (BEB 117)
Facilitator:
Jim LaBelle, Foraker Group, Anchoragee
Presenters:
Joan Larsen, Department of Economics, University of Manitoba
Causes
and Consequences of Economic Instability in Greenland
Klaus Georg Hansen, Sisimiut Museum
Kangerlussuaq:
The Emergence of a Civilian Community
Muriel Paradelle,
Institut National de la Recherche Scientifique, University of Quebec
Legal
Issues Facing Communities
Gitte Trondeim,
University of Greenland
The
Crisis of the Greenlandic Family and the Position of the Sexes in Urban
Greenland
- A Discussion
3:15 pm - Break
3:30 pm - Saturday Afternoon Sessions, Part 2 (Business Education Building)
1. Memory and History 2 continued (BEB
110)
Facilitator:
Aron Crowell, Arctic Studies Center, Smithsonian Institution
Presenters:
Saladin d'Anglure
Memory,
History and Fiction: The Epic of Atanaarjuat
2. Traditional Knowledge continued (BEB
101)
Facilitator:
Amy Craver, University of Alaska Anchorage
Presenters:
Lianna Jack, Alaska Sea Otter and Steller Sea Lion Commission
Surveying
Sea Otter Abundance Within Tribal Boundaries to Determine Trend
and Affect on Local Management Plans
Donna Willoya, Alaska
Sea Otter and Steller Sea Lion Commission
Local
and Traditional Knowledge
of Stellar Sea Lions and Community Based
Monitoring
of Local Seasonal Haulouts
3. TBA (BEB 111)
4. Change in the Arctic continued (BEB
117)
Facilitator:
Jim LaBelle, Foraker Group, Anchorage
Presenters:
Carol J. Moore, affiliation
Resource
Development and Political Discourse in the Deh Cho Region
Josephine
Halfhilde, Indian Child Welfare Specialist, Department of Health and
Welfare
Historical
and Contemporary Issues in Indigenous Child Removal
4:30 pm - Elders Wrap Up and Business Meeting (Lucy Cuddy Center)
5:30 pm - Conference Adjournment
