Symposium Agenda

Morning Session

• 9:00 to 10:00 a.m. - Registration, Breakfast and Networking
  
• 10:00 to 10:20 a.m. - Opening Ceremony 
• 10:20 to 11:00 a.m. - Keynote Address: Indigenous Optimism and Cherokee Land-based Resurgence
  • Dr. Clint Carroll
• 11:00 to 11:10 a.m. - Break
• 11:10 to 11:55 a.m. - Cherokee Scholar Presentation
  Listen to Your Elders: Language, Story and Learning in Cherokee
  • Presenters - Terri Beaver, Gabriel Miller, Kasha Tehee,
    Kourtney Vann
  • Moderator - Dr. Candessa Tehee
• 11:00 to Noon - Preview of Afternoon Program
• Noon to 1:00 p.m. - Lunch (on your own)

Afternoon Session

• 1:00 to 1:45 p.m. - Learning from Indigenous Perspectives: Rethinking How Archeology Is Taught and Practiced
  • Naomi Gilmore
• 1:45 to 1:55 p.m. - Break
• 1:55 to 2:40 p.m. - Seeing Their Worlds in VR: Youth-Created Virtual Museums, Places and Futures
  • Dr. Nicole Colston
• 2:40 to 2:50 p.m. - Break
• 2:50 to 3:35 p.m. - Indian Schools in the American Colonies (1500s-1700s): Precursors to the Federal Indian Boarding Schools and Self-
  Determination Tribal Schools: Indigenous voices from the Past
  • Dr. Kelly Berry and Dr. Cornel Pewewardy
• 3:35 to 3:45 p.m. - Break
• 3:45 to 4:30 p.m. - Student Cherokee Lifeways
  • Dr. Tiffanie Hardbarger
• 4:30 to 4:40 p.m. - Break
• 4:40 to 5:25 p.m. - Cherokee Collective for Ecologies and Foodways
  • Dr. Clint Carroll, Dr. Tiffanie Hardbarger,
    Dr. Melissa Lewis, Dr. Jaquetta Shade-Johnson

Morning Session

• 9:00 to 10:00 a.m. - Registration, Breakfast and Networking
• 10:00 to 10:50 a.m. - College and Research Awareness
  • Dr. Nicole Colston
• 10:50 a.m. to 11:00 a.m. - Break
• 11:00 a.m. to Noon - Poster Session 
• Noon to 3:00 p.m. - Break

Evening Session

• 3:00 to 6:00 p.m. - Gourd Dancing 
• 6:00 to 7:00 p.m. - Dinner Break
• 7:00 - Grand Entry to Powwow
• 7:00 to 11:00 pm - Powwow