Intersecting Interests: Tribal Knowledge and Research Communities

Agenda

Wednesday April 8, 2009
3:00 PM - 6:00 PM	Registrant Check-In
1:00 PM	Pre-Conference- Trauma Intervention in Indian Country Community Participatory Research and Partnering in Indian Country: Who is the Community?
2:45 PM	Trauma 101
5:30 PM	Conference Begins- Welcome and Introductions Master of Ceremonies: Bill Yellowtail, Katz Professor of Native American Studies, Montana State University- Bozeman Suzanne Christopher, Project Director, Center for Native Health Partnerships (CNHP) Iris Pretty Paint, Outreach Consultant University of Montana, Steering Commitee Member CNHP Alma McCormick, Project Coordinator, Messengers for Health, Steering Committee Member, CNHP Blessing
6:00 PM - 8:00 PM	Dinner and Evening Program
6:00 PM - 8:00 PM	*Traumatic Grief Training Planning Meeting and Dinner (by invitation only)*
Thursday, April 9, 2009
8:00 AM - 5:00 PM	Registrant Check-In
8:00 AM	Opening Blessing and Breakfast Buffet
9:00 AM	Welcome - "Continuing the Conversation" Patty LaPlant, Division of Educational Research and Service, University of Montana Deb LaVeaux, Project Coordinator, CNHP
9:30 AM - 10:30 AM	Morning Keynote : Native Researcher Panel Topic: Concerns about research (past and present) in tribal communities and suggestions for moving forward with responsible, ethical, community-based research Facilitator: Ellen Swaney, Director of American Indian/Minority Achievement, MT Commissioner of Higher Education Office. Confirmed participants: Mike Jetty, Office of Public Instruction; Joyce Silverthorne, Office of Public Instruction; Walter Fleming, Montana State University; Gyda Swaney, University of Montana; David Yarlott, Little Big Horn College; and Kate Shanley, University of Montana.
10:30 AM	Break
10:45 AM - 12:00 PM	Facilitated Table Conversation #1 Topic: Based on the panel discussion, what are some topics that are important to address at this conference and beyond regarding Montana-specific guidelines for ethical research with Native Americans.
12:00 PM	Lunch – provided
1:00 PM - 2:00 PM	Facilitated Table Conversation #2 Topic: Based on topics brought out at the first table conversation and published guidelines for ethical research.
2:00 PM - 3:00 PM	Facilitated Table Conversation #3 Select a new table for another conversation.
3:00 PM - 3:30 PM	Break
3:30 PM - 5:00 PM	What did we learn? Report back from table conversations
6:00 PM	Dinner- provided

Friday, April 10, 2009
7:30 AM	Opening Blessing and breakfast buffet
8:30 AM	Morning Speaker Joseph P. Gone, Ph.D., Departments of Psychology (Clinical Area) and American Culture (Native American Studies), University of Michigan Ann Arbor. Speaker Introduction by Patty LaPlant, Division of Educational Research and Service, University of Montana
9:30 AM	Break
9:45 AM - 10:45 AM	Facilitated Table Conversation #4 Tables will be labeled by community and university. Topic of conversation is where and how to proceed.
10:45 AM	Break
11:00 AM	Report out to group
12:00 PM	Lunch, Evaluation and Closing

The 34th Annual MSU- Bozeman American Indian Council Pow-Wow: Grand Entry begins at 6:00 PM at the Brick Breeden Field House in Bozeman.

“…and she listened to the silence that The People left behind. She knew that what her friend said was true, that within this calm, cold land waited a certain death if they did nothing for themselves. Finally,…she echoed her friends’s words, “Let us die trying.”
(Velma Wallis, Two Old Women, 1993)