WEDNESDAY 3/19/2014 930-1050 am – Cultural Leadership and the 7th Generation by Maggie Steele Fireside Room Maggie Steele is a distinguished professional mediator/peacemaker and winner of the prestigious Mary Parker Follet Award by the Society of Professionals in Dispute Resolution. Maggie specialized in working with youth to prevent bullying, youth violence, gang conflict, and in promoting healing and wellness through grass roots organizing. Well respected in the Native American community, she also works closely with African Americans, Asian Americans, Caucasians, Elders, Hispanic/Latino, Pacific Islanders, Refugees and migrants. 11am – 1220pm – The Affordable Care Act and Covered California Virginia Hedrick - Yurok-Karuk Fireside Room The purpose of Mrs. Hedrick’s presentation is to engage people to join the discussion to help their families, communities, tribes and tribal programs to better understand the Affordable Care Act and Indian Health Care Improvement Act. Mrs. Hedrick has worked for the last three years in the Office of the Executive Director on outreach and training for the ACA. All are welcomed. 2-330pm - Fatherhood is Sacred – Mike Duncan – Con-Cow/Wailake / Wintun Music Building – Room D-12 Mike Duncan is the founder and CEO of Native Dads Network in Sacramento. Mike successfully facilitates the “Fatherhood is Sacred” curriculum. He has had over 200 fathers attend his group and has helped create a network of fatherhood groups in Northern California. He uses topics such as historical trauma, cultural competency and healthy relationships to help participants look at barriers and to encourage traditional teachings as solutions. Mike professes that the family is the oldest and most important institution in society and is at the heart of Native American cultures. There is no more important work than fatherhood and motherhood. 330-450p Tongva Boats and Language Preservation by L. Frank – Tongva-Acjachemen One California natives world view.... an overview of tribes and languages and the revitalization of native culture. Weaver Hall Room W-110 Artist, writer, tribal scholar, cartoonist and indigenous language activist, her regular column/graphic, “Acorn Soup,” has appeared in the quarterly magazine News from Native California since 1992 – featuring the comic adventures of Coyote in his various guises. L. Frank coauthored (with Kim Hogeland) First Families: Photographic History of California Indians in 2006. L. Frank is a board member of the California Indian Basketweavers Association and a founding board member of the Advocates for Indigenous California Languages. She is actively involved in the Two-Spirit culture. 5- 8p Two Spirit Film - Film viewing and LGBTQ discussion Dr. Gabriel Estrada, L. Frank, Dr. Matt Archer – Weaver Hall Room W-110 Two Spirits interweaves the tragic story of a mother’s loss of her son with a revealing look at the largely unknown history of a time when the world wasn’t simply divided into male and female and many Native American cultures held places of honor for people of integrated genders. Fred Martinez was nádleehí, a male-bodied person with a feminine nature, a special gift according to his ancient Navajo culture. He was one of the youngest hate-crime victims in modern history when he was brutally murdered at 16. Two Spirits explores the life and death of this boy who was also a girl, and the essentially spiritual nature of gender. Director, co-producer, and co-writer Lydia Nibley creates film and television projects under the banner of Riding The Tiger Productions. Dr. Gabriel Estrada is of Nahuatl, Raramuri, Mestizo and Basque heritage. He is Associate Professor, Department of Religious Studies, California State University, Long Beach. His doctorate is in Comparative Cultural and Literary Studies from University of Arizona. He is Co-founder of City of Angels Two-Spirit Society (CATSS) and author of Two Spirits, Nádleeh and Navajo LGBTQ2 Gaze” in American Indian Culture and Research Journal and “Two-Spirit Film Criticism: Fancydancing with Imitates Dog, Desjarlais and Alexie” in Post Script. His book in progress is Two-Spirit Film: Queer Indigenous Media, Religion, AIDS, and Sci-Fi.
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