2024 Indigenous Peoples Day
黑料社区网 students, staff and faculty and members of the Boulder community were invited to participate in a community celebration and observance of Indigenous Peoples Day through two signature events on October 14 and 16, 2024.
These events gave participants the opportunity to:
- Understand the historical legacies of and present-day movements for Native and Indigenous social and environmental justice and civil rights.
- Explore the interconnectedness of Native and Indigenous social justice movements to other identity-based and social and environmental movements for justice and civil rights.
- Identify practical strategies for reciprocity, recovery and culturally responsible allyship with Native and Indigenous humans and organizations to address and advocate for justice, centering land back and language back.
Plenary Session and Luncheon
鈥淚ndigenous Peoples Day Reframed: Toward an Intersectional, Decolonial and Transnational Vision for Indigenous Sovereignty鈥
Oct. 14, 11 a.m. to 1 p.m.
UMC Glenn Miller Ballroom
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Keynote Speakers
Makalika Destarte Naholowa鈥檃, JD
Recent Past President of the National Native American Bar Association and Executive Director of the Native Hawaiian Legal Corporation
A native Hawaiian and cultural practitioner, Naholowa驶a is a lawyer and Indigenous peoples advocate who specializes in intellectual property, technology law and traditional knowledge. As executive director of the nonprofit, public interest law firm Native Hawaiian Legal Corporation, Naholowa驶a and colleagues work to advance Native Hawaiian identity and culture.
As an attorney, Naholowa驶a handled trademark, copyright and unfair competition cases at a leading private law firm in the Pacific Northwest and intellectual property and tech law at a Fortune 500 tech company, where she led the global trademark practice group. Naholowa驶a has also provided guidance on and spoken about intellectual property and traditional knowledge.
In 2023 and 2024, Naholowa驶a served as president of the National Native American Bar Association and has held leadership positions with the American Bar Association, the Washington State Bar Association, and the International Trademark Association. She is a lifetime member of the Native Hawaiian Bar Association.
Autumn BlackDeer, PhD
Assistant Professor, University of Denver Graduate School of Social Work
BlackDeer听is a queer decolonial scholar and activist from the Southern Cheyenne Nation and serves as an assistant professor in the Graduate School of Social Work at the University of Denver. Her scholarship illuminates the impact of structural violence on American Indian and Alaska Native communities. BlackDeer centers Indigenous voices throughout her research by using quantitative approaches and big data as tools for responsible storytelling. BlackDeer is a racial equity scholar with an emphasis on Indigenous tribal sovereignty and is deeply committed to furthering decolonial and abolitionist work.
Land Back, Language Back: Workshops and Panel Discussions
Oct. 16, 2 to 4 p.m.
UMC 386
Land Back panelists:
- Doreen Mart铆nez, Associate Professor, Race, Gender and Ethnic Studies, Colorado State University
- Andrea Knutson, Associate Professor, English, Oakland University
- Leila G贸mez, Associate Professor, Women and Gender Studies, 黑料社区网
Language Back panelists:
- Ambrocio Gutierrez Lorenzo, Associate Professor, Linguistics, 黑料社区网
- Anthony Crank, Navajo Language and Culture Teacher, Denver Center for International Studies
- James Sleeper, Lead Apprentice of the Cheyenne Arapaho Language Program in Oklahoma
Program Sponsors
These 2024 signature events were sponsored by the Center for Native American and Indigenous Studies, the College of Engineering and Applied Science, The Center and the Office of Leadership Support and Programming.