A Co-Sponsored GCWS event:
A Teach-In: Standing Rock Protests and Protective Actions
This two-day teach-in will consider a range of issues related to the Sacred Stone Camp protests and protections in solidarity with the Standing Rock Souix against the Dakota Access Pipeline. Panels and discussions are listed below.
The organizing committee for this teach in is: Sabina Vaught, Mark Minch, Deirdre Judge, and Cecilia Petit of Tufts University
Event Agenda: FRIDAY, 10/28
Terrace Room, Paige Hall
12:30 p.m.: Welcome and Introduction
Organizing Committee*
12:45 p.m.: Blessing
Paula Peters, Mashpee Wampanoag
1:00 p.m.: History and Context
LaDonna Brave Bull Allard, Standing Rock Sioux, Tribal Historian
Introduction: Paula Peters, Mashpee Wampanoag, Documentarian
2:15 p.m.: Waking Up Colonized
“Mashpee Nine: The Beat Goes On” Screening and Talk
Paula Peters, Mashpee Wampanoag, Documentarian
Introduction and Dialogue: Pearl Robinson, Documentarian, Associate Professor of Political Science, Africana Studies, and Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies, Tufts University
4:00 p.m.: History of Protest and Resistance
Christine DeLucia, Assistant Professor of History, Mount Holyoke College
Kiara Vigil, Dakota/Apache heritage, Assistant Professor of American Studies, Amherst College
Introduction/Facilitation: Kendra Field, Assistant Professor of History and Africana Studies, Director of the Center for the Study of Race and Democracy, Tufts University
5:30 p.m.: Sovereignty and Sacred Space
Mark Minch, Susanville Indian Rancheria, Postdoctoral Fellow at CHAT, Tufts University
Kevin Bruyneel, Professor of Politics, Babson College
Introduction/Facilitation: Eulogio Guzmán, Lecturer in Visual and Critical Studies, School of the Museum of Fine Arts/Tufts University
Event Agenda: SATURDAY, 10/29
Crane Room, Paige Hall
10:15 a.m.: Welcome and Introduction
Organizing committee*
10:30 a.m.: Settler Colonialism and Law
Dale Turner, Anishinaabe/citizen of the Temagami First Nation in northern Ontario, Canada, Associate Professor of Government and of Native American Studies, Dartmouth University
J. Kehaulani Kauanui, Kanaka Maoli, Professor of American Studies and Anthropology, Wesleyan University
Introduction/Facilitation: Sabina Vaught, Chair and Associate Professor of Education, Director of WGSS, Programs in American and Africana Studies, Tufts
12:00 p.m.: #StandWithStandingRock #NoDAPL #MediaMustReport: Supporting Indigenous Voices & Movements With Social Media
Dr. Cutcha Risling Baldy, Hupa, Karuk, Yurok, Assistant Professor of American Indian Studies, San Diego State University
Introduction: Shameka Powell, Assistant Professor of Education, Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies
Note: Please bring your phones, computers, iPads or whatever else you use to get on social media! We will be live tweeting/blogging/posting this event to
#StandWithStandingRock
1:15 p.m.: Women, Health, and Healing
Maria John, Mellon Postdoctoral Fellow in Indigenous Studies, Wesleyan University, Assistant Professor, Native American History, UMass Boston Norine Hill, Oneida Nation
Executive Director/Founder of Native Women In Need
Introduction/Facilitation: Ellen Pinderhughes, Professor of Child Study and Human Development, Tufts University
2:45 p.m.: Water Rights: Considering Multiple Contexts
Kandi Mossett, Mandan, Hidatsa, Arikara – North Dakota Indigenous Environmental Network
Salma Abu Ayyash, Social Justice Activist
Thomas Abowd, American Studies/Race, Colonialism, and Diaspora/Anthropology Tufts University Introduction/Facilitation: Matt Hooley, Lecturer in American Studies,
Consortium of Studies in Race, Colonialism, and Diaspora, Tufts University
4:00 p.m.: Standing Rock: Protest and Protection
Megan Ireland, Oneida Nation, Protester
Bobbi Jean Three Legs, Lakota, Oceti Sakowin Youth organization
Introduction/Facilitation: Mark Minch, Susanville Indian Rancheria, Postdoctoral Fellow at CHAT, Tufts University
CLOSING
*Sabina Vaught, Mark Minch, Deirdre Judge, Cecilia Petit, Tufts University
Sponsored by: Departments of Education and Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies, Tufts
Co-sponsored by: Diversity Fund, Office of the Chief Diversity Officer and Associate Provost, Department of Sociology, Consortium of Studies in Race, Colonialism, and Diaspora, The LGBT Center, Department of Anthropology, Tisch College of Civic Life, Center for Interdisciplinary Studies, Office of the Dean of Arts and Sciences, Center for the Study of Race and Democracy, Women’s Center, Environmental Studies Program, Peace and Justice Studies, Pluralism Initiative, Tufts; and, The Consortium for Graduate Studies in Gender, Culture, Women, & Sexuality (GCWS) at MIT