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Speakers
Conversations on the Land:
Indigenous and Scientific Principles for Sustainable Communities
- Dates: Friday, November 7 and Saturday, November 8, 2008
- Location: Alumni Lounge (Nifkin), Marshall Hall, SUNY-ESF
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Speaker Information
1) Dr. Donald Grinde. Professor and Chair of American Studies, SUNY Buffalo
Title: “Challenges to teaching stream restoration and environmental ethics in the Native and Western Ways”
Don Grinde's research and teaching focuses on Haudenosaunee (Iroquois) history, U.S. Indian policy since 1871, Native American thought, and environmental history. He is the author of The Encyclopedia of Native American Biography, Apocalypse of Chiokoyhikiu, Chief of the Iroquois, and The Iroquois and the Founding of the American Nation, among other texts. A Japanese translation of his book Exemplar of Liberty (co-authored with Bruce Johansen) was published in 2006.
2) Dr. Christopher Vecsey, Charles A. Dana Professor of the Humanities at Colgate University, Chair of the Native American Studies Program.
Title: “Religion’s Role”
Christopher Vecsey is the Charles A. Dana Professor of the Humanities at Colgate University, where he is co-founder and current chair of the Native American Studies Program. He has published a dozen books regarding American Indian religious traditions and related topics, including American Indian Environments. Ecological Issues in Native American History (Syracuse University Press, 1980), with Robert W. Venables; Traditional Ojibwa Religion and Its Historical Changes (American Philosophical Society, 1983); Imagine Ourselves Richly. Mythic Narratives of North American Indians (Crossroad/Continuum, 1988); Iroquois Land Claims (Syracuse University Press, 1988), with William A. Starna; Handbook of American Indian Religious Freedom (Crossroad/Continuum, 1991); and three volumes about the history and contemporary lives of American Indian Catholics (University of Notre Dame Press, 1996, 1997, 1999).
3) Dr. Karim Aly Kassam, Associate Professor of Indigenous and Environmental Studies, Cornell University
Karim-Aly Kassam works in partnership with Native communities in the Alaskan, Canadian and Russian Arctic and Sub-Arctic; the Pamir Mountains in Afghanistan and Tajikistan; and the rainforest in the south of India. Dr. Kassam focuses his applied research on the complex connectivity of human and environmental relations addressing issues such as indigenous ways of knowing, sustainable livelihoods, gender relations, and socio-cultural change.
4) Dr. Stewart Diemont, Assistant Professor of Ecological Engineering, Department of Environmental Resources and Forest Engineering, SUNY-ESF.
Title: "Developing relationships for knowledge sharing in Mayan communities in Mesoamerica"
Stewart Diemont is an Assistant Professor of Ecological Engineering in the Department of Environmental Resources and Forest Engineering at SUNY-ESF. He has worked with indigenous and local communities in Mesoamerica for over a decade. He studies ecosystem restoration, agriculture, and water treatment. He is particularly interested in how the pathway of technology transfer in lesser-developed countries, where Western scientific knowledge is typically imported, can be reversed, and local communities can both learn from each other and teach to outsiders.
5) Dr. Dan Longboat, Director Indigenous Environmental Program, Trent University.
Title: Haudenosaunee Perspectives on Sustainable Communities
Dan Longboat is Mohawk from the Six Nations of the Grand River. He is Director of the Indigenous Environmental Program at Trent. Dan is known for his Traditional Haudenosaunee knowledge and has taught Mohawk culture at Trent in addition to his work in Indigenous environmental studies. He was the first Director of Studies of the Ph.D. program. Dan completed his Ph.D. in Environmental Studies at York University
6) Oren Lyons, Distinguished Service Professor, American Studies, SUNY Buffalo
Oren Lyons is an internationally recognized indigenous leader and scholar . He is a Faithkeepr at Onondaga Nation and memebr of the Haudenosaunne Environmental Task Force. Lyons is the publisher of Daybreak Magazine and co-editor of Exiled in the Land of the Free. His interests include Native American history, international indigenous affairs, contemporary indigenous issues, and international environmental issues. He has received the Ellis Island Congressional Medal of Honor, the National Audubon Award, the First Annual Earth Day International Award of the United Nations, and the Elder and Wiser Award of the Rosa Parks Institute for Human Rights, and he has been inducted into the National Lacrosse Hall of Fame. He is a member of the board of the Harvard Project on American Economic Development and chairman of the Board Honoring Contributions in the Governance of American Indian Nations.
7) Dr. Holly Youngbear Tibbetts, Provost, College of the Menominee Nation, Director, Sustainable Development Institute
Dr. Youngbear-Tibbetts has extensive professional experience in planning, program design and development in addition to her experience in higher education. Her recent scholarship includes native land issues in North America and the Antipodes and environmental risks to women, children and native communities. Holly is the recipient of awards and fellowships from the Council on Institutional Cooperation, the Bush Foundation, and The John T. and Katherine D. MacArthur Foundation Grants for Peace and International Cooperation. Her publications include journal articles, books and research for the Earth Summits' Forestry Accords
8) Neil Patterson, Director, Tuscarora Environmental Program
Title: Haudenosaunee Principles of Sustainability
Neil Patterson is the Director of the Tuscarora Environmental Program and member of the Haudenosaunee Environmental Task Force. He is the co-author of the book “Tuscarora Nation” and an advocate and leader in Haudenosaunee environmental protection. He is an NSF GK-12 Fellow at the SUNY College of Environmental Science and Forestry.
9) Dr. Robin Kimmerer, Professor of Environmental and Forest Biology, Director, Center for Native Peoples and the Environment.
Title: Restoration and Reciprocity: Finding Common Ground between indigenous and scientific environmental knowledge
Robin Kimmerer
Dr. Kimmerer is a plant ecologist, writer and Professor of Environmental and Forest Biology at SUNY ESF. She is the Director of the Center for Native peoples and the Environment and is active in broadening access to science for Native American students. Her research interests include the role of traditional knowledge in ecological restoration. She is a co-founder of the Traditional Ecological Knowledge Section of the Ecological Society of America. Her interests include not only restoration of ecological communities, but restoration of human relationships to land, which she explores in her writing.
This program is sponsored by a SUNY Conversation in the Disciplines grant, ESF Center for Native Peoples and the Environment, Syracuse University, SUNY Native American Western Consortium and the Central New York Native American Consortium
