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Recordings of the 18th Annual Vine Deloria, Jr. Indigenous Studies Symposium 2023

Below are the recordings as they happened

MAY 18, 2023, ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS AND INTRODUCTIONS TO THE 1ST DAY OF THE SYMPOSIUM

  • Deloria Symposium Master of Ceremonies- Tim Ballew Sr. (Lummi Nation)
  • Accompanying Speakers: Rudy Vendiola (Swinomish), Jerad Etl 

LUMMI NATION CULTURAL WELCOME

  • Blackhawk Singers
  • Lummi Indian Business Council Representative

NORTHWEST INDIAN COLLEGE

  • Justin Guillory (Nez Perce), President of Northwest Indian College

VINE DELORIA, JR. INDIGENOUS STUDIES SYMPOSIUM PLANNING COMMITTEE 

  • Victoria Walsey-Honanie (Yakama and Warm Springs) and Emma Norman (Italian/Welsh heritage)

SPIRITUALITY IN PRACTICE

  • Tom Sampson (Tsartlip First Nation)

SPIRITUALITY POEMS

  • Rena Priest (Lummi Nation)

EXPRESSING OUR VIEWS ON: “WE LIVE IN TIME AND SPACE AND RECEIVE MOST OF OUR SIGNALS ABOUT PROPER BEHAVIOR FROM EACH OTHER AND THE ENVIRONMENT AROUND US.” (VINE DELORIA, JR. 2003)

  • Rudy Vendiola, (Swinomish)
  • Diane Villaluz Vendiola, (Hugalitza/Dawneesia), (Swinomish)
  • Randy Vendiola, M.Ed., (Swinomish), Marysville-Pilchuck High School
  • Shelly Vendiola, (Swinomish), Community Engagement and Peacemaking Project and the Na’ah Illahee Fund
  • daniseten Michael Vendiola, (Swinomish), Vendiola Family
  • Michaela Vendiola, (Koso/yai duʔac), (Walker River Paiute/Swinomish), North Sound ACH, WWU Native American Student Union Alumni
  • Sage Vendiola, (Swinomish)

BUILDING A HOUSE OF HEALING-COAST SALISH LONGHOUSE ON SEHOME HILL (WESTERN WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY)

  • Laural Ballew (ses yehomia), (Swinomish), Western Washington University and NWIC Board Member
  • WWU Native American Student Union Representatives

GROUNDING TO VINE DELORIA, JR’S WORK: GOD IS RED

  • Dr. David Wilkins, (Lumbee), University of Richmond, Professor of Leadership Studies

MAY 19, 2023, OPENING SONG- SETTING THE INTENT AND RECAP

  • Tim Ballew, Sr. (Lummi), NWIC Faculty 

INDIGENOUS THEOLOGY

  • Brian Cladoosby, (Swinomish), 
  • Reverend Tony Snow, (Goodstoney First Nation), United Church of Canada

GOD IS RED STUDENT PANEL

  • Dr. Victoria Walsey-Honanie, (Yakama and Warm Springs), (Moderator)
  • Lydia Agnus (Cagluaq), (Yupik-Umkumiut Tribe), NWIC Student
  • Pachynne Ignacio (Wipismul), (Tohono O’odham), Indivisible Tohono member, Co-Facilitator of the Sudagi ‘O Wud Doakag (Water is Life), and NWIC student
  • Sadie Olsen, (Kwastlmut), (Lummi Nation), Whiteswan Environmental, and NWIC Student

CONTINUOUS KNOWLEDGE: PERSPECTIVES ON DELORIA AND SPIRITUALITY

  • Shelly Wilkins (Moderator)
  • Margaret Redsteer, (Crow), University of Washington
  • Gabe Galanda, (Round Valley), Galanda Broadman PLLC
  • Santana Rabang, (Lummi)
  • George Adams, (Nooksack)

COMMUNITY RESILIENCE AND CLIMATE CHANGE: A PATH FORWARD GROUNDED IN SPIRITUAL PRACTICE

  • Todd Mitchell, (Swinomish), Department of Environmental Protection

MOVED TO SPEAK: UNSCRIPTED SPEAKERS

  • Candace Wilson, (Lummi)
  • Perry Adams, (Lummi)

SCHELANGEN: CLOSING REFLECTIONS

  • Heather Jefferson, (Lummi)
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