Past Events
Indigenous Futures: Capacity Building for Data Sovereignty in the Southern Plains Conference
Conference creating collaborative work between higher education institutions and tribal nations with experts and leaders in the rapidly evolving field(s) built around the concept of Data Sovereignty. Listening sessions and panels were hosted allowing for Q and A discussion with tribal leaders and interdisciplinary research representatives to talk through what “data sovereignty” is, and what it could be at KU and the Southern Plains.
Indigenous Education Summit
Professional development opportunity for pre-service and in-service teachers in partnership with the Kansas Department of Education focusing on improving K-12 education classroom education. Participants learned from Indigenous studies experts and leaders of tribal Nations in and connected to Kansas. Facilitated teacher Q & A and small discussion groups were included throughout the day.
Leadership, Museums, and Fashion in Alaskan Native Communities
Aaron Leggett is the President of the Native Village of Eklutna and Senior Curator of the Alaskan History & Indigenous Cultures at the Anchorage Museum. Leggett discusses his role as a tribal leader and further presents on his museum work and the community impact.
Hot Topics in Indigenous Law and Implications for Higher Education
Stacy Leeds, a citizen of the Cherokee Nation of Oklahoma, is the Willard H. Pedrick Dean and Regents Professor of Law at the Sandra Day O'Connor College of Law at Arizona State University. Dean Leed's presentation emphasizes the significance of tribal sovereignty in higher education as it relates to citizenship and also discusses the legal implications for tribes within the landback context.
Modern Expressions of Tribal Sovereignty
Elizabeth Kronk Warner, a citizen of the Sault Ste. Marie Tribe of Chippewa Indians, is the Jefferson B. & Rita E. Fordham Presidential Dean and Professor of Law at the Quinney College of Law at the University of Utah. In Dean Warner's presentation, she discusses the the political status of tribal citizens and the implications for higher education along with other aspects of tribal sovereignty in practice.
Unsettling Settler-Colonial Education, with Dr. Cornel Pewewardy
Dr. Cornel Pewewardy (Comanche-Kiowa) spoke during the 2023 KU Indigenous Cultures Festival. His lecture about the Transformational Indigenous Praxis Model is now available.
Community Learning & Practice
Community Learning & Practice: Native Ways of Thinking, Knowing, Being - a student-led virtual panel event to learn about diversity amongst Native students at KU.
2021 Native American Heritage Month
Liberating Sovereign Potential in Indigenous Education: Building Capacity and Confronting Colonial Entanglements lecture by lecture Alex Red Corn (Ed.D) is a citizen of the Osage Nation, introduces tribal sovereignty, explains the need to engage in the complexity of Indigenous relationships with education while introducing the liberating sovereign protentional model.
2021 Indigenous Peoples’ Day Lecture
Lecture and Q&A: Cultural Competency, Decolonization, & Indigenous Knowledge Systems with Guest Lecturer Dr. Joshuaa Allison-Burbank, PhD, CCC-SLP (Diné and Acoma Pueblo) an Assistant Scientist from Johns Hopkins Center for American Indian Health