52nd Annual
Native American Critical Issues Conference
March 10-12, 2022 at 8:30am
3 Days, 3 Tracks
Networking Café Daily 8:30-9am
Session 1 9-10am
Session 2 10:15-11:15am
Session 3 11:30am-12:30pm
Vendors Session 12:45pm-1:45pm (March 10 and 11 only)
Track A blue Zoom Webinar
Track B green Zoom Meeting
Track C (Youth) purple Zoom Meeting
Networking Cafe Zoom Webinar
Vendor Booths Zoom Meeting
Day 1: Thursday, March 10, 2022
8:30-1:45pm EST
Plenary: Opening Ceremony
9-10am
i.1.A.
Song, Dr. Martin Reinhardt
Prayer, Frank Ettawageshik
Song and Welcome, Dr. Martin Reinhardt
Welcome, Chairperson Jamie Stuck
Technical Orientation, Williamson Creative Agency LLC
Elections, Rochelle Ettawageshik
Distinguished Service Awardee, Angeline Boulley
How Climate Change affects our Cultural Centering
10:15-11:15am
i.2.A.
Frank Ettawageshik
Moderated by Rochelle Ettawageshik
The erasure of Native American Students in Higher Education
10:15-11:15am
i.2.B.
Pamela Monaghan-Geernaert
Amber Henderson
Moderated by June Mamagona Fletcher
Stoodis, so you can Skooden!
Dream your perfect college.
10:15-11:15am
i.2.C.
Lin Bardwell
Amber Morseau
Stephanie Chau
Melissa Kiesewetter
Moderated by Eva Menefee
Native Inclusion Initiatives at WMU Medical School
11:30am-12:30pm
i.3.A.
Dr. Cheryl Dickson
Amber Morseau
Dr. Martin Reinhardt
Moderated by Frank Ettawageshik
A Family’s Perspective on Boarding School Survival
11:30am-12:30pm
i.3.B.
Rochelle Ettawageshik
Moderated by Lisa Kurtz-Tollenaar
Sense of Belonging in Academia: Finding Balance Through Reciprocal Relationships as Indigenous Youth
11:30am-12:30pm
i.3.C.
Roxy Sprowl
Mikayla Thompson
Moderated by Melinda Hernandez
Day 2: Friday, March 11, 2022
8:30-1:45pm EST
Networking Cafe
8:30-9 am
ii.0.A.
Come on in! Join us for pre-conference networking. This will take place in Zoom Webinar and you'll have the option to unmute and turn on your audio, not video.
Moderated by Dr. Martin Reinhardt
Jonny R. the Ojibwe Outlaw
9-10 am
ii.1.A.
Jonny R. the Ojibwe Outlaw
Moderated by Dr. Martin Reinhardt
Kinomaage: Collaborations for Anishinaabemowin Education
10:15-11:15 am
ii.2.A.
Sean Kottke
Kelli Cassaday
Darcy McMahon
Joe Lubig
Dr. Martin Reinhardt
Michele Wellman-Teeple
Moderated by Frank Ettawageshik
Exposed: How High-Profile Litigation Impacts Indian Children’s Privacy
10:15-11:15 am
ii.2.B.
Cassondra Church
Moderated by Rochelle Ettawageshik
Journaling Sketching and Lyrics
10:15-11:15 am
ii.2.C.
Melinda Hernandez
Lennon Wolcott
Moderated by Lisa Kurtz-Tollenaar
Town Hall Plenary: Michigan Indian Education
11:30am-12:30 pm
ii.3.A.
Jannan Cotto
Frank Ettawageshik
Chris Gordon
MDE’s Indigenous Education Initiative Team
Moderated by Mary Pelcher
Vendor Booths
12:45pm-1:45pm
ii.4.
-Reinhardt & Associates
-Michigan Veterans Resource Service Center
-Williamson Creative Agency LLC
Want to be a Vendor? Head to "call for participation"
Moderated by Amber Morseau
Day 3: Saturday, March 11, 2022
8:30-12:30pm EST
Networking Cafe
8:30-9 am
iii.0.A.
Come on in! Join us for pre-conference networking. This will take place in Zoom Webinar and you'll have the option to unmute and turn on your audio, not video.
Moderated by Dr. Martin Reinhardt
Maawn-doon-ga-nan Resource Manual Panel
9-10 am
iii.1.A.
Stephanie Chau
Melissa Isaac
Jannan Cotto
Amanda Weinert
Kriyah Gaillard
Melissa Kiesewetter
Moderated by Amber Morseau
MSUE Self-Assessment regarding Tribal Extension Education
9-10 am
iii.1.B.
Emily Proctor
Moderated by June Mamagona Fletcher
Rematriation of Indigenous Seeds
10:15-11:15 am
iii.2.A.
David Michner
Shiloh Maples
Joe VanAlstine
Veronica Pasfield
Moderated by Rochelle Ettawageshik
Enacting Entrepreneurial Sovereignty: A Review of Literature on Anishinaabe Economics Before the Twentieth Century
10:15-11:15 am
iii.2.B.
Bazile Panek
Moderated by Melinda Hernandez
A Truthful Relation with One's Self Strengthens One's Relation with Mother Earth
10:15-11:15 am
iii.2.C.
Brandon Garlow
Fiona Byrne Ryan
Moderated by Eva Menefee
Plenary: Claiming and Centering Identity
11:30-12:30 pm
iii.3.A.
Keynote Speaker, Angeline Boulley, Author of Firekeeper’s Daughter
Prayer, Frank Ettawageshik
Hand Drum Song, Dr. Martin Reinhardt